Sentences with phrase «rigorous exam systems»

Students in nations with rigorous exam systems were less likely to report that memorization is the best way to learn and more likely to report that they conducted experiments in science class.

Students attending school in provinces with rigorous exam systems were a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent ahead of comparable students living in provinces without such exams in math and science.

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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.

While a number of states, including Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and possibly California, are phasing in or plan to develop a system of rigorous curriculum - based external exams, most states have chosen instead to administer minimum - competency exams.

This is part of government reforms designed to make the exams and accountability system more rigorous.

Students from Soka High School are almost automatically accepted at Soka University, but students from outside of the Soka System go through a rigorous exam process to get into the Soka System.

«That's why we are raising standards with a rigorous new curriculum, world class exams and new accountability system that rewards those schools which help every child to achieve their best.»

Black Mountain also eschewed the conventional grading system, though there were oral and comprehensive exams, and the courses were rigorous.