Sentences with phrase «school entrance exam»

No paralegal school entrance exam is required, although standardized test scores may be required to enter an Associate degree program.

Many schools require an entrance exam; most middle and high schools require the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) or the SSAT (Secondary School Admissions Test).

Over a third (38 %) had a tutor to help them do well in a specific GCSE exam while nearly a fifth (18 %) received tutoring for a grammar school entrance exam.

To remediate achievement gaps and prepare for the demands of the most selective schools in New England, each Scholar puts in hundreds of hours of extra school work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - grade year.

Pray for me as I start studying to take the LSAT (law school entrance exam) in the fall.

Here's another: He was working at the patent office because he failed his engineering school entrance exam in 1895.

The Independent School Entrance Exam allows schools to compare achievements across school environments.

Globally, the percentage of candidates considering only business master's degrees has increased from 15 % in 2009 to 23 % in 2016, according to a 2017 report by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the organization that administers the GMAT, the business school entrance exam.

When she's not fretting over high school entrance exams (remember, this is the Japanese education system) or trying her hand at amateur songwriting, she devours fantasy novels in rapid succession.

The cram schools prepare children for the next school year and school entrance exams, giving them a leg up into gifted classes and, hopefully, into one of New York City's specialized public high schools.

* Children who are «hot - housed» for selective school entrance exams can struggle once they get in, a headteachers» leader has warned.

Juku, commonly known as «cram school,» is the private, after - school instruction that most Japanese students receive, especially during middle school as they prepare for high school entrance exams.

The Independent Schools Entrance Exam (ISEE) will be held on a Saturday in November.

GL Assessment, which delivered the 11 - plus test for all Buckinghamshire grammar schools before 2013, will replace the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) in providing selective school entrance exams for the area from 2018.

While lower secondary school entrance exams were abolished in 1969 and the ministry of education has loosened up the system of competitive test - based upper secondary school and college admission, there is still considerable focus on exams.

Silver Spoon Hiromu Arakawa The manga details the story of Yugo Hachiken, a city boy who flees his family to attend agricultural school, after failing his high school entrance exams.

My daughter and son have both scored very high on standardized testing and my daughter did amazing on her high school entrance exams so quality of education has definitely not been an issue!

Not exact matches

After high school, he applied to go to college — but failed the entrance exam twice.

Or the low - income kids turn out to be somehow atypical — they go to a selective school with an entrance exam, or they're recent immigrants from Asia or Eastern Europe rather than black or Latino kids from families with long poverty histories.

The on - site improvements (e.g., computers, books, lower student / teacher ratios — the secondary school used to operate at a 1:67 ratio) and quantitative results (e.g., in the past 5 years, the rate for passing university entrance exams has climbed from 60 to 89 %) are remarkable and I wanted to share some audio and video.

Whether they learn the entire high school program, or just the final year courses to prove previously acquired learning, or even challenge the leaving or entrance (SAT) exams, children that are motivated are serious, focused learners and nothing will stop them.

High school students come for basketball, volleyball and weekly tutoring on college entrance exams.

This funding will go a long way in raising the numbers of potentially qualified minority applicants attending these schools, while maintaining the schools» academic integrity without changing the objectivity of the entrance exam.»

A year ago, the de Blasio administration announced that the city will be pay the fees for high school juniors taking the SAT college entrance exam.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

Parliament subsequently approved amended law school regulations including entrance exams but rejected the conduct of interviews.

The proposed L.I. in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examentrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance ExamEntrance Examination.

A group calling itself the Concerned LLB Graduates, has threatened to sue the General Legal Council for contempt of court, for using the recently taken entrance exams and interview to deny over seven hundred students who failed access to the Ghana Law School.

The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examentrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance ExamEntrance Examination.

And it's too bad the beeps felt obliged to include in this report yet another call to scrap the entrance exam for the city's top public high schools.

Get a good grade, pass the entrance exams, an then get into the best public high schools and colleges.

By the time Tamara reaches Standard Eight, she has overcome all of these challenges and proudly passes her Primary School Leaving Certificate Exam for entrance into secondary sSchool Leaving Certificate Exam for entrance into secondary schoolschool.

Struck by the extent to which «every interaction was keyed to preparing for Japan's comprehensive college entrance exam,» Ho became interested in standardized testing and its effects on schools and learning.

Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

Lindsay complained that the entrance exam for the three specialized high schools was «culturally biased» against black and Hispanic children and sought to have the high schools eliminated.

These high schools are sometimes known as «exam schools» in reference to their selective admissions criteria, which can include entrance exams.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

ACT officials say the insights on grammar and usage will help them as they reshape their college - entrance exam to add an optional, 30 - minute writing test sometime during the 2004 - 05 school year.

The Iowa City, Iowa - based publisher of the ACT — the college - entrance exam taken by high school students primarily in the Midwest and the South — will open 40 testing centers in the next few months and is on its way to having 250 operating by the end of next year, said Richard L. Ferguson, the president of ACT.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

Home schoolers need to know what kind of financial aid is available, when the college entrance exams are offered — those kinds of things.

67 per cent of respondents said they would send their child to a grammar school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent saying they would not.

Japanese schools place great emphasis on the high school and college entrance exams and frequently teach only the material that those exams test.

Along with SAT scores, the College Board has also released results from a survey of college - bound high school seniors who took the entrance exam this year.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

As a result of this shift in policy, the share of Michigan's high school students taking a college entrance exam rose from 54 percent to nearly 99 percent.

For each school, states must report their standardized test scores, college entrance exam scores, graduation rates, and student attendance.

And it's cheap: states have to run a high school test anyway, plus parents pay for the college entrance exams if the school system does not.

And regular high schools in the vicinity tend to be jealous, accusing exam schools of «creaming» the best students, thereby jeopardizing the other schools» academic rankings (which are often based on how many pupils take AP exams) and college - entrance reputations.

Among college - bound 12th graders who had taken the ACT college - entrance exam in 2002, students from high - income families were more likely than their low - income peers to have completed college - preparatory coursework in high school.