Sentences with phrase «school entrance exam in»

Here's another: He was working at the patent office because he failed his engineering school entrance exam in 1895.

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Globally, the percentage of candidates considering only business master's degrees has increased from 15 % in 2009 to 23 % in 2016, according to a 2017 report by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the organization that administers the GMAT, the business school entrance exam.

The on - site improvements (e.g., computers, books, lower student / teacher ratios — the secondary school used to operate at a 1:67 ratio) and quantitative results (e.g., in the past 5 years, the rate for passing university entrance exams has climbed from 60 to 89 %) are remarkable and I wanted to share some audio and video.

This funding will go a long way in raising the numbers of potentially qualified minority applicants attending these schools, while maintaining the schools» academic integrity without changing the objectivity of the entrance exam.»

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

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The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examentrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance ExamEntrance Examination.

And it's too bad the beeps felt obliged to include in this report yet another call to scrap the entrance exam for the city's top public high schools.

Pray for me as I start studying to take the LSAT (law school entrance exam) in the fall.

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.

Struck by the extent to which «every interaction was keyed to preparing for Japan's comprehensive college entrance exam,» Ho became interested in standardized testing and its effects on schools and learning.

Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

These high schools are sometimes known as «exam schools» in reference to their selective admissions criteria, which can include entrance exams.

The Iowa City, Iowa - based publisher of the ACT — the college - entrance exam taken by high school students primarily in the Midwest and the South — will open 40 testing centers in the next few months and is on its way to having 250 operating by the end of next year, said Richard L. Ferguson, the president of ACT.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

As a result of this shift in policy, the share of Michigan's high school students taking a college entrance exam rose from 54 percent to nearly 99 percent.

And regular high schools in the vicinity tend to be jealous, accusing exam schools of «creaming» the best students, thereby jeopardizing the other schools» academic rankings (which are often based on how many pupils take AP exams) and college - entrance reputations.

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.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

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.

In sum, although there may be some migration by high - performing students to APIP schools, schools that adopt APIP see better scores on college entrance exams among students who have always attended their school.

Seeking Help in the Accountability Era Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

* Children who are «hot - housed» for selective school entrance exams can struggle once they get in, a headteachers» leader has warned.

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

But without formal instruction in reading or writing English, Callahan fears that they have no way of developing good grammar or a broad vocabulary, or preparing for middle school or college entrance exams.

For high school students, particularly, the time commitment was heavy, because PARCC came on top of the ACT college entrance exam and Advanced Placement exams in the spring.

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.

• With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - priced lunch and students of color in the cities were less likely than white students to enroll in high - scoring elementary and middle schools, take advanced math courses, and take a college entrance exam.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

The «Mind the Gaps» study, by ACT, draws on the Iowa City, Iowa - based testmaker's earlier research showing that taking a strong core curriculum in high school and meeting benchmark scores in all four subjects of the ACT college - entrance exam enhance students» chances of enrolling in college, persisting...

To remediate achievement gaps and prepare for the demands of the most selective schools in New England, each Scholar puts in hundreds of hours of extra school work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeSchool Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - grade year.

Half of public school teachers graduating from college in 1999 had scores that were in the bottom third of those taking college entrance exams.

The Independent Schools Entrance Exam (ISEE) will be held on a Saturday in November.

Many parents will pay for private tutors in an attempt to help their children pass entrance exams for selective schools, but does this give pupils from wealthy families an unfair advantage?

He supports legislation filed recently in Springfield that would ultimately get rid of PARCC testing in high schools and give kids the choice of taking one of two college entrance exams for free.

Over a third (38 %) had a tutor to help them do well in a specific GCSE exam while nearly a fifth (18 %) received tutoring for a grammar school entrance exam.

Standouts among the states are Delaware, which passed a law last year raising admission standards to the highest in the country, and Rhode Island, which will eventually require that each class of students at its education schools score in the top third of everyone taking college entrance exams.

I do not think that a student's failure of the CUNY entrance writing exam should be attributed solely to the high school or the teachers, and I question the advisability of including it in a school's report - card grade.

Some districts paid for their own ACT testing after that, and in early 2016, the College Board won a bid to administer its SAT college entrance exam to public school juniors in Illinois.

The ACT has had a history in Illinois starting in 2001, when then - state schools Superintendent Glenn W. «Max» McGee launched the first free college entrance exam at public schools as part of what was called the Prairie State Achievement Examination.

who do well in an entrance exam (for selective schools, for example grammar schools or stage schools)

All of these skills are needed to successfully register for and take college entrance exams, write personal statements, research schools, complete applications, pay fees, fill out financial aid applications, apply for scholarships, and any number of other tasks needed for kids to get into and enroll in college.

College entrance exams in China dwell heavily on math and science, so secondary schools focus on these subjects to help their students succeed.

«District and school administrators overwhelmingly agree with ISBE that every high school junior should have access to a college entrance exam, a policy that promotes equity and access and that provides each and every student with greater opportunities in higher education,» state Superintendent of Education Tony Smith said in a written statement.

For many years in the past, the state gave a free and popular ACT college entrance exam to roughly 140,000 high school juniors.

At the high school level, the PARCC exams took away from key instruction time, school administrators said, as tests piled up in the spring, including Advanced Placement exams for honors - level students and a college entrance exam in many districts.

GL Assessment, which delivered the 11 - plus test for all Buckinghamshire grammar schools before 2013, will replace the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) in providing selective school entrance exams for the area from 2018.

http://edsource.org/2014/high-school-grades-are-a-better-predictor-of-college-success-than-sat-act-study-says/58033#.VRgr90bVu1Q «Students with strong grade point averages in high school maintained similar GPAs in college, regardless of how well or poorly they scored on college entrance exams.

Those kids were never put in more advanced classes that might help them get a better score on college entrance exams, or get into four - year universities or avoid taking remedial classes after high school.

«Parents may see private tutoring as a rational way to help their children perform well in the entrance exams for schools of their choice,» she said.