Sentences with phrase «admissions test each year»

Although thousands of black and Hispanic kids take the admissions test each year, only a handful score high enough to get in.

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To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next fiAdmission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next fiadmission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

All candidates for the program will be required to pass the EDT, unless they have already written a Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) within the last 5 years and achieved a minimum score of 500 or the equivalent in the GRE.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

She also cited the College Board's decision this year to reinstate «score choice» for students, allowing a student to decide which test scores admissions officers will receive.

It's a long - controversial process which blew up this year because of students who didn't want to take state tests but still wanted criteria admission.

At the time of admission for functional MRI scanning (5 years after the ictus), the patient was assumed to remain in a vegetative state, although extensive behavioral testing after the functional MRI revealed reproducible, but inconsistent, responses indicative of a minimally conscious state.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

Kids need to score above the 97th percentile on a standardized test in order to enter the admissions lottery and, every year, about two - thirds of those who qualify are shut out.

For several years, Cornell University and Brown University have been the only Ivy League institutions to accept either test for admission.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

Report examines statewide testing for general education students in grades 9 - 12 during the 2006 - 07 school year, including end - of - course tests, exit exams, and college - admissions tests.

Taiwan is a bit of a hybrid, with no required testing in primary school, but a Basic Competency Test at the end of lower secondary (along with three required tests a year in each of three subjects during lower secondary) that determines admission to upper secondary school.

Includes SAT fact sheet, SAT gender bias fact sheet and list of more than 280 four - year institutions that have deemphasized test scores in admissions.

Admissions tests, supplemented by interviews, are given to pupils from year two upwards.

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

Not one four - year college in NJ is willing to accept the results from the PARCC tests as an admissions indicator.

What makes the Finnish school system so amazing is that Finnish students never take a standardized test until their last year of high school, when they take a matriculation examination for college admission.

A dozen of those states use those tests to measure achievement, the same number as last year, but a big jump from years ago, when only a handful used college - admissions tests for that purpose.

For similar reasons, we completely stopped accepting SAT and ACT for admissions two years ago, after an internal study revealed standardized test scores are poor predictors of student success at Hampshire.

Over the last six years, prodded by federal requirements to publish test results, teachers» colleges have begun screening students before or soon after admission for the ability to pass state certification exams.

Their exit exam, required to gain admission to high school, was far more difficult than today's high school exit exam (eliminated by Governor Brown last year) and many college level achievement tests.

Even as education officials tout increases in test scores around Louisiana and in New Orleans, the only open - admissions school in Uptown New Orleans that exceeded state averages in any subject last year was New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School — and that was only in two of four subjects.

(Calif.) Next year's high school juniors would be allowed to take college admissions tests instead of the current statewide assessment under a bill announced Tuesday that aims to close gaps in college enrollment and reduce testing time.

Starting in March 2016, students taking the SAT College Admission Exam will be given the NEW Common Core aligned SAT test rather than the version that students have been taking over the years.

The legislators also said no decisions regarding students, including promotions and admissions, should be linked to the tests for two years, which could present a challenge to middle and high schools that use test scores in deciding whom to accept.

16 year - old Emmalyn Lindsey told her local paper that she was preparing for, «six upcoming tests — two for her Advanced Placement classes, two for the International Baccalaureate program, and the ACT and SAT college admission exams.»

He worked for 17 years at ACT Inc., a college admission testing company and was a faculty member at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

ACT has conducted research for years to determine the level of performance a student would have to achieve on its widely used college admissions test to have a 50 percent chance of earning a grade of B or higher, or a 75 percent chance of earning a C or higher, in an entry - level college class.

Schools minister Nick Gibb first revealed plans for the formal agreement last year in his response to a recommendation from the parliamentary education committee that the 11 - plus test should not be the only basis for admissions to grammar schools.

The Law School Admission Council has announced an expanded LSAT schedule, offering prospective law students six testing dates per year as opposed to the traditional four.

According to the Law School Admission Council, interest in the LSAT has dropped drastically in recent years, with 65,982 fewer tests administered in the 2013 - 2014 admission cycle than four years prAdmission Council, interest in the LSAT has dropped drastically in recent years, with 65,982 fewer tests administered in the 2013 - 2014 admission cycle than four years pradmission cycle than four years previously.

On a tangent about continuing competence, not just entry - level, what about requiring lawyers in active practice to write and pass a version of the multiple - choice bar admission tests online at least every year or two (and if particular subject area failed, restricted from practicing in that area?).

A recent survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep revealed that, while the number of law school applicants has declined in the past few years, the quality of the applicant pool is increasing, making law school admissions more competitive than ever.

Joint Degree in International Arbitration; both degrees can be completed in as little as two years and the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is not required.

Any test change would signify a radical departure in law school admissions as the LSAT, administered by the separate Law School Admissions Council, has become a staple of law school admissions procedures since it was first administered nearly 70 years agadmissions as the LSAT, administered by the separate Law School Admissions Council, has become a staple of law school admissions procedures since it was first administered nearly 70 years agAdmissions Council, has become a staple of law school admissions procedures since it was first administered nearly 70 years agadmissions procedures since it was first administered nearly 70 years ago in 1948.

In the past two years, however, several schools have announced they would begin accepting the GRE as an alternative admissions test.

Education requirements on an Orthodontist's resume include an acceptable score on the Dental Admission Test, a four - year degree from a dental school, and an additional three years of specialized orthodontic training.

A sample of n = 194 inpatient adolescents was assessed (65.5 % female, M age = 15.45 years, SD = 1.44) at admission and discharge and analyses were conducted in accordance with the aforementioned objectives including testing of moderation and mediation models.