Sentences with phrase «for old exams»

At that point, buying science projects, kissing up to upperclassmen for old exams, and smuggling miniscule essays in my necktie was a truer test of my mettle.

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We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we do go for an in - person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines in the waiting room.

Well, as promised I'm going to try to talk about my upcoming oral final exam, an Old Testament homily for my late - vocations class that I'm taking.

May 2000 our family dr. called to tell us that during a routine exam for a cold, our 19 year old youngest son Ryan needed to see a specialist.

I am a 70 - year - old woman who has tried to eat well for years, but nothing I was doing was changing my bad report at my wellness exams.

Remember the good old days when a college player could pay another guy to sleep through an exam for him?

The last second scrambilng reminds me of a 14y old who did nt want to study for a biology exam and freaks out one day before the exam is scheduled, trying to blame everyone but himself that he «s gonna fail come tomorrow.

See what happens at the doctor visit for a 12 - month - old, from exams and measurements that track your baby's growth and developm...

This is especially true amongst older students who are competing for scholarships and higher college entrance exam scores.

See what happens at the doctor visit for a 1 - month - old, from exams and measurements that track your baby's growth to shots and...

When I was 26 years old, I learned my HBsAg was reactive when I was required to undergo medical exam for an employment (so depressed I wasn't hired and the doctor had to write in big words, «not fit to work» on my medical result clearance).

Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «singing a hymn of praise for my old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the old O - level.

Reforms to make the school curriculum for 11 to 14 - year - olds more flexible and better tailored to pupils» needs have been published by the exams watchdog today.

The 15 - year - old and a classmate were said to have drowned in a swimming pool at a hotel in Effurun, Delta State, where they had gone for an after exams party.

The Board of Regents voted in April to allow student - teachers who fail the new exam, called the edTPA, to take an old, less rigorous exam instead for two years.

---------------------- A judge has ordered a psychiatric exam for 21 - year - old Paul Bumbalo of Utica, who has been charged with 3 counts of 2nd degree murder of family members early Wednesday morning in Utica.

«It's not unlike when [graduate students are] doing research and their adviser comes in with a demand for old data for a proposal — they also have a class to teach, an exam to proctor, and another student who needs a particular reagent or sample.

Clearly, they agree that women ages 40 - 49, 50 - 74, and 75 - and - older who want annual mammograms, should be covered for, and have access to, these lifesaving exams.

The researchers collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the charts of close to 2,000 patients age 40 or older with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to see how many had regular eye exams.

His quandary for parents of the future: «Should a 12 - year - old be allowed to take a drug that will enhance neurotransmission, but carries a 1 in 100 risk of side - effects, just to do better in exams?»

It is a departure for the 15 - year - old exam, which is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a coalition of 34 member countries guided by industry.

A good gyno exam... May Not Include a Pap Smear Pap smears — which detect abnormal, potentially cancerous cells on your cervix — were once recommended yearly for any woman older than 18.

Yes, the age - old advice to see a gynecologist at least once a year for a checkup and pelvic exam generally still holds true.

So, if you happen to be a student who's facing difficulties studying for an exam, a working professional trying to get better at his job or an older person that wants to experience the benefits of having the mental agility of a young man, nootropics can be the answer you are looking for.

When I was 29 years old, I went to see a new doctor for my yearly exam.

A nice scarf or pashmina can make a twinset and khakis look more hip and can make jeans and a t - shirt just dressy enough (I'm thinking the nice plain colored t - shirt variety, from anywhere from Old Navy to BR, but today I'm wearing a Hanes v - neck, cardigan and a scarf which makes it acceptable for wearing to grad school exams:)-RRB-

While young and old get along just dandy when director Muylaert describes the tenderness that Val has for Fabinho, this is nothing like that affection between Val and her daughter Jessica (Camila Márdila), who have barely seen each other for a decade but who are tentatively united when the bright, progressive young woman, studying for a college entrance exam, moves into the spacious home of the well - to - couple in São Paulo.

When she ran the old Cinema Guild and Studio theaters in Berkeley, Calif., in the late»50s, Kael frequently booked «Body Snatchers» during exam weeks and promoted it as the ideal movie to see if you wanted to stay awake for the rest of the night.

Move past that basic set of elements, though, and you start to see the quirkiness that is quintessentially SEGA: old - school combat where you initiate enemy encounters with random punks on the street JRPG - style; mini games that involve cooking noodles to the correct hardness and following the rules of the road with passengers in your taxi; and best of all, a ton of missions that just come out of left field, like helping a student cram for his exams by answering questions about physics and grammar.

For their study, researchers from Vanderbilt University, Appalachian State University, and the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire analyzed two decades of data on two groups: 13 - year - olds who had scored high on the SAT college - entrance exam and graduate students enrolled in top - ranked math,...

Of the older pupils retaking exams, fewer than a third achieved a C or above, compared to 70 per cent of 16 year - olds taking the exams for the first time.

Despite criticisms of the newly introduced maths exam, which the Scottish Qualifications Authority admitted was «unusually hard» and caused them to drop the C pass rate to just 34 per cent, overall the newly introduced qualifications have been questioned for being easier than the older exams.

If the NAEP exams are the nation's report card, the world's report card is assembled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which administers the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) to representative samples of 15 - year - old students in 68 of the world's school systems.

While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15 - year - olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, and left even Shanghai, China's academic gem in the dust.

What good are old fashioned report cards when the cycle of learning new concepts, testing a learner's knowledge on these concepts, and repeating has been shortened to the amount of time it takes for a learner to finish an online activity or course exam?

First documents is a well laid - out grid with key professions that students need to know for the French Junior Cert exam (Could be added to for older students).

PLEASE NOTE: these are NOT lists for the new GCSE 1 - 9 specification, but for the old 1MA0 exam.

All this was not even an idea when Khan, at his wedding in New Jersey in 2004, learned that his 12 - year - old cousin Nadia had done poorly on a math - placement exam back in Louisiana and would not be in a class for more - proficient students.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

And a recent report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, comparing the new tests with older ones, indicated that the PARCC and Smarter Balanced exams had the strongest matches with the criteria that the Council of Chief State School Officers developed for evaluating high - quality assessments.

These papers have been made by an experienced Mathematics Teacher to be used as exam practice for new and old specification.

«In most countries, the standard for 16 - year - olds is higher than what we expect from an 18 - year - old graduating high school in America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their education.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

The international exam — administered every three years by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-- compared more than half a million 15 - year - old students from 72 countries on their math, reading, and science knowledge.

States that are reluctant to implement a high - stakes high school graduation test might want to look at the old Regents end - of - course exam system as a possible model for a moderate - stakes student accountability system.

I have meticulously gone through past papers for the old specification and carefully selected the most relevant questions to the new spec, allowing students to prepare for exam questions that are likely to reappear.

«So we were especially disappointed this year to find that not enough had been done by exam boards to change these old practices and meet our revised expectations for reviews of marking.

Last week, technical issues brought testing to a halt in three states, while in yet more states, thousands of parents refused to let their students sit for exams that are expected to be much harder than the old state tests they are replacing.

She also warned that «we can not continue to turn a blind eye» to the question of whether there should be such an exam for 16 year olds.

Burris, for example, opted to give only the old pre-Common Core exam to her students.