On Japanese and Asian education: «The Japanese
entrance exam system is very bad.
Not exact matches
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 Princeton Review, a for - profit company best known for preparing students to take college -
entrance exams, has ranked state testing and accountability
systems.
The Chinese national educational
system has won high praise as an efficient
system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college
entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.
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.
More Chinese students are coming to the U.S. for middle and high school lately, in part to flee the rigid Chinese education
system and the country's rigorous college
entrance exam, which students begin preparing for in 9th grade.
Evers said the new accountability
system most likely will focus on data the state already has the ability to collect, such as proficiency and growth over time on a new state test being developed, advanced placement enrollment, graduation rates, college
entrance exam scores and industry certification for students who don't go on to college.
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.
New Study Finds High School Grades Are More Predictive of College Academic Performance than Standardized Tests A new study of students enrolled in the University of Alaska
system found that high school grade point average (GPA) was a better predictor of students» success in college - level courses than standardized college
entrance exams.