Sentences with phrase «exam in»

According to ETS, the number of students «passing» an AP exam in at least one subject (scoring at least a three on a five - point scale) increased from a little over three hundred thousand in 2002 to nearly five hundred and seventy - five thousand in 2012.

Florida had made some changes to its annual performance exam in the past year, mostly in the writing category, and the results weren't pretty.

Overall, non-Hispanic white students scored 0.27 standard deviations above the average on the math exam in the fall of kindergarten, while black students fell 0.36 standard deviations below the average, yielding a raw black - white gap of 0.63 standard deviations.

In Algebra 1, 69 percent of white students and 72 percent of Asian students passed the state exam in the spring, compared with 19 percent of Hispanic students and 25 percent of black students.

A total of 40 questions for Algebra 55 pages in total with answers These practise questions have been carefully selected and generated as a prediction for the actual exam in June 2016 These questions are very useful for revision in preparing the students for success on the paper....

However, several states also mandated that students pass the minimum - competency exam in order to graduate with a standard high - school diploma.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

Dalian's junior high exam in 1999 tested students on Chinese, math, a foreign language, physics, and chemistry.

As a result of this point, the report states that the government could bring in a Sats - style exam in maths for university applicants to take.

Broken down by year, there is a 19 percent increase in the number of students scoring above 1100 on the SAT and above 24 on the ACT exam in the first year of the program, a 22 percent increase the second year, and a 33 percent increase by the third year on (see Figure 3).

Many of us were hired from the Midwest and from eastern states, and given emergency certification in California conditioned on passing a course on California history and the National Teacher Exam in mathematics.

This SOW has been designed with the new AQA exam in mind.

According to a study by Education Datalab, the Kent Test, the entrance exam in Kent, was a «loaded dice» against pupils on free school meals because they were not coached for the test, unlike their wealthier peers.

Under her leadership, three times as many students are taking AP English Language and Composition and KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate has the highest number of students pass the 2016 exam in the entire KIPP network.

Fears have surfaced that a GCSE exam in Computing has been «blatantly compromised» after the answers to a controlled assessment were discovered in the back of a course textbook.

A federal judge's ruling this month that the graduation exam in Texas is constitutional doesn't mean other states should assume their own exit exams could survive a legal challenge, some observers cautioned last week.

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.

[11] Many other institutions had no choice but to innovate when ACT, Inc. discontinued the COMPASS ® exam in 2015, stating that «A thorough analysis of customer feedback, empirical evidence and postsecondary trends led us to conclude that ACT Compass is not contributing as effectively to student placement and success as it had in the past.»

What hadn't changed, it appeared, were the academic numbers: the city's dropout rate, over 11 percent, was more than 4 times greater than the state average, and only 47 percent of its 4th graders passed the state's English Language Arts exam in 2001 - 02.

«Any time you have a challenge to something like the exit exam in Texas, it's a good heads - up for folks.

The 11th edition of the Washington - based association's yearly report says that although spending per student has increased nationwide by 53 percent in the past 20 years, 73 percent of public school 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics exam in 2003 performed below the level of proficient.

But in Japan, the entrance exam in chemistry for prestigious Tokyo University lasts just 2-1/2 hours.

And, unlike the tests in either of those countries, the United States» Advanced Placement exam in chemistry asks almost no questions about organic chemistry — the specialty of almost half the field's practitioners.

That number had increased to477 by May 2007, when the College Board «sAdvanced Placement exam in Mandarin wasadministered for the first time.

-- Only 55 percent of 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam in math correctly answered the question, «How many pieces of string will you have if you divide 3/4 yard of string into pieces each 1/8 yard long?»

That was fortunate for Houston's students, because only 15 percent of them passed the state end - of - course exam in the spring of 1997 (in fact only 18 percent of students passed statewide).

Students have to research 2 «Current Economic Issues» for their Unit 12 Exam in June 2017.

They have students take the AP Calculus exam in 11th Grade and offer them Game Theory or Differential Equations in 12th Grade.

That model starts with what BASIS calls a «bare bones» syllabus that's common to all of the schools and is tested with a common comprehensive exam in the spring.

This was our case study / chosen piece of music which students will answer about in their final exam in June 2012.

The editors respond: The lowest possible scaled score on the MCAS exam in English or math is 200, the highest just 280.

States are increasingly requiring students to pass an exam in order to graduate from high school.

This means that students are free to race ahead once they've mastered an objective, so sixth graders may be learning some seventh - grade content and may not have studied material on the sixth - grade exam in a year or more.

The figure documents clear positive movement across the test - score distribution for the first cohort of students that needed to reach a minimal score on the FCAT exam in order to be promoted from the 3rd to the 4th grade (2003).

The strategy in 17 states, such as Florida, Texas, and New Jersey, is to require students to pass a minimum - competency exam in order to graduate from high school.

Because Florida did not participate in the NAEP in 2000, I use as the state's baseline score its median score on the 4th - grade NAEP reading exam in 1998.

Like most teachers, Amanda and I want the rich content and skills we teach to stick beyond the summative assessments for a unit or a class, or in Amanda's case, the AP European History exam in May.

Instead of recognizing the obvious, however, Tough simply wonders «what if James had started studying for the specialized - school exam in the third grade instead of the seventh grade?»

After the exam in May, thousands of students complained about the difficulty of the test, taking to social media to air their frustrations.

The national end - of - course exam in 7th - grade science would consist of a subset of those questions.

Our analysis reveals that pressure on schools to avoid a low performance rating led low - scoring students to score significantly higher on a high - stakes math exam in 10th grade.

That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to pass the 10th - grade exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable rating.

The move means that students in the class of 2006, instead of the class of 2004, will be the first in California who must pass the exam in order to graduate.

Yet at present it is impossible to ensure that the child has actually been taught the material tested by the exam or that the exam in fact captures the breadth of knowledge that the student should have.

The benefits: Whether encouraging lecture course students to take their final exam in small groups or asking seminar students to prepare and lead portions of late semester discussions, Guinier believes collaborative endeavors show students that understanding how to get the answer is as important as getting the answer.

That means online law schools» graduates may not sit for a bar exam in their states except in California.

I have used this as a mock exam in preparation for an ICT exam.

I have used this as a mock exam in preparation an ICT exam.

Elena is taking her high school graduation exam in philosophy on Monday and Robert is helping her clear up some basic concepts.

But how do you choose which order to take the GMAT exam in?