Sentences with phrase «school exam tends»

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School is in session every day but exams tend to come in a cluster, which brings to mind a Bill Parcells quote: «This is what you work all season for.

Party schools tend to be very religious — mostly along the lines of «Please, God, let me get through this exam before my hangover kills me!

The fashion industry tends to have little interest in whether the models may have a school exam they need to study for or a best friend's 16th birthday party they wouldn't dream of missing.

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.

• Even places that have clung to statewide exit exams as a condition of high school graduation tend to get cold feet when reality hits — and then waive, defer, or offer workarounds such that not too many kids are actually denied diplomas just because they fail the test.

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.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

We journalists tend to focus on exam results because so many of our readers say that is what they want, and such information is relatively easy to get from regular public schools.

It explores the conclusions of the 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement that states with more tracking tend to have more students passing Advanced Placement exams in high school.

A common assumption inside the school - reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's public - school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves.

That's the rough threshold for reasonable school performance, according to Hattie: Countries that spend less than $ 40,000, which are all poor, tend to have much lower reading scores on the international PISA exam, and their performance correlates strongly with the money they spend.

In law school, there tends to be little «group» work and hence less opportunities for plagiarism between fellow students to arise since most evaluation is based on either 100 % exams or on quite individualized essay topics.

Students in their law school program tend to be older (average age 38), and the iPad is meant to help them better keep up with readings and study for bar exams.

Rural districts in the north tend to have better school exam results and lower house prices in relation to earnings.