Sentences with phrase «actually lowers your score»

A study of CAT calcium scores by JoAnn E. Manson in the June 2007 JAMA actually lower scores, and less heart disease in the women taking estrogen (they had hysterectomies and were not given the synthetic progestins).

Cancelling a card can actually lower your score.

The truth is that not using your credit card but keeping it in good standing will actually lower your score because it doesn't actually show you as a person who can manage finances responsibly.

Because your credit limit affects your credit score, and closing them can actually lower your score.

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But those average scores actually hide impressive improvements, he adds, because of how low public opinion sank — particularly for Chrysler and GM, which both took government bailout money.

Because you're transferring your debt from a line of credit to an installment loan, you can actually lower your credit utilization, which can help your credit score — provided you don't add more charges to your credit cards.

Actually, you are on the right page as you have the list of lenders that offers loan even if you have a bad / low credit score.

Dallas is actually quite low on secondary scoring threats.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Alas, contrary to our immediate inference, double - digit road dogs have actually struggled in low - scoring games.

Although we assumed that double - digit underdogs would perform exceptionally well in low - scoring games (closing O / U of < 42), those teams have actually struggled with a 68 - 74 ATS record including a 24 - 32 mark since the start of the 2009 season.

Still, underdogs have performed exceptionally well in divisional games, «dogs have been profitable in low - scoring games (over / under is currently 43.5) and the Rams actually defeated the Cardinals back in Week 4.

The Clarets have actually failed to score in 43 % of their away games this term so expect this to be low scoring.

Whilst a lot of the media discussion from Week 4 of the Premier League has revolved around boring games, the low level of goals scored so far, and even the amount of time that the ball is actually in play, it's actually been a very busy weekend for the Manager Impact Index with Villas Boas, David Moyes and Michael Laudrup being the stand out performers this week.

Given that other public figures, like politicians, who actually have some power, were judged influential by only 38 %, it is no shock that religious leaders, who don't, scored so low.

The one - third of postmenopausal women who scored highest on the memory tests actually had brain activity that looked like that of premenopausal women — despite their low estradiol levels.

They are a size medium actually because of the elastic at the waist line (I always score in the lower sizing with Old Navy as their large and extra larges look too big on me) but be ready to see more of these shorts on the blog as they are super cute and comfortable.

Even if you're a packing MAXimalist, a little bit of time and effort on the packing end can score you 15 fantastic looks and low - stress dressing when actually on vacation.

Less than 1 % scored themselves lower, which would suggest that worrying about our love life more actually has little impact on our general happiness.

They say «we're going to find you the love of your life,» and that's really hard to actually do, and so their satisfaction scores tend to be lower.

Only 29 % of Ubisoft's releases scored positive reviews from critics — lowest among all major publishers, sure, but actually an improvement over the prior year, when Ubisoft's success rate was just 18 %.

The Oscar has actually been awarded to the lowest - scoring (worst - reviewed) nominee three times as well.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

Gains among Texas fourth graders were sustained over a longer period of time, but also show evidence of little growth since 2005, with Hispanic and the lowest - performing students actually scoring lower in the latest assessments than in 2007.

There's a non-trivial risk of branding as failures some schools that, despite low scores, are actually doing right by kids.

If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.

But the relationship is actually the opposite of what one might expect: while all parents place a high value on teacher quality, low - income parents are more likely to emphasize the importance of school safety, test scores, and discipline.

In contrast, the math - score gains associated with having a career - ladder teacher actually appear to have been concentrated among students with teachers on the lowest rungs of the career ladder.

it will take an awful lot of explaining, carefully walking people through the tests, what they gauge, what results mean, how this cut score is actually better aligned with college than the old cut score, etc, to convince people that these new low scores are okay... will be interesting to see how that plays out.

The authors of the funding study report that the school finance reforms they studied actually did not reduce socio - economic and racial gaps in test scores because low - income and minority students are not very concentrated in the districts that enjoyed spending increases.

While Asian Americans do score lower than white students on some measures of psychosocial wellbeing, Americans as a whole score so abnormally high that, globally speaking, Asian American scores are «actually quite normal,» says Pittinsky.

We do not know if children's low test scores are actually due to lack of skills in that area or simply a case of not finishing the test — a problem that plagued many students.

Ms. Ravitch shows that claims of improving scores on state tests have actually been produced mainly by ever - lower test score requirements, so low in one instance that many students could get to an acceptable level by random guessing.

Contrary to pupular opinion, an analysis of NAEP scores shows that low income and African American students have actually seen little to no improvement over the six years of experimentation with reforms under chancellors Rhee and Henderson.

The LA Unified schools with the five lowest scores — actually seven schools, as a few tied — are all located in South Los Angeles or San Pedro with students that come primarily from low - income households.

Surprisingly, participants in the 41 - 50 age range actually scored lower with the game, by about six points.

Indeed, today's reading scores are actually lower than they were in 1992.

The consortium's subsequent studies found that elite public schools with admissions criteria did not improve academic benefits, test scores, grades or college selectivity, and for lower - income students, these actually worsened.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

In fact, he found that these students actually scored half a point lower on the 36 - point ACT than students at schools where the tenth grade test scores weren't as strong.

The teacher with the lowest principal rating in the study actually got a higher value - added score than the teacher with the highest principal rating.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

In fact, the man who tried to quadruple the number of standardized tests in order to «train» student on how to increase their CMT test scores managed to come up with a system that actually appears to have lowered academic achievement as measured by the fraudulent CMT Testing system.

It is evident that Para Los Ninos and Apple Academy are actually relatively comparative, and their low scores still outperform their local LAUSD school.

Excluding Ohio, which decided that the top three of PARCC's five score bands corresponded to proficient as opposed to the two bands PARCC recommended, states using PARCC actually reported lower proficiency rates than on NAEP.

At first glance, the 22 average miles per gallon seems low for the small SUV, but compared in class it actually scores toward the better end of the spectrum.

The XOOM scored almost the same on the Linpack test before and after the update, and the tablet actually achieved lower scores in Quadrant and SmartBench after installing Android 3.1.

Since a person is actually looking at your application, you have a better chance of getting approved with a lower credit score.

Closing a credit card account will actually hurt your credit score (which should be starting to recover by now, by the way) in two big ways: it will lower the amount of your total credit and it will lower the average age of your accounts.