Sentences with phrase «school exams if»

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Some schools, such as the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, don't have a minimum, but if you want to be considered competitive, it's best to score above 600 on the exam.

China's Communist Party is a merciless meritocracy... if you're in Chinese leadership, you made it there by scoring high on a long series of exams, starting at age twelve — which means you haven't met a stupid person since you were in junior high school.

If you don't like it, pass the high school level Social Studies exams and be a politician yourself.

For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

So if the public schools don't by default give the days off, parents should talk to the school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on days they plan to have their kids miss school.

If the exam is easy to copy and far removed from the kind of work folks do outside of school, then perhaps we need to design a more cheat - proof assessment that will challenge students before, during AND after they receive feedback.

If the average high - school student takes five classes, that's two - and - a-half hours per night, not to mention that long - term assignments (like papers and preparing for exams) are generally not considered homework and are additional work to be done at home.

To see if your gifted child could benefit from some summer programming, ask the school district if they'd be willing to test your child with the end - of - the - year performance exams for the year your child is skipping.

If it guaranteed LEA help when requested (eg for exams, or for using school sports or music facilities) but no interference, then it could be positive.

This is particularly important if your child has had problems in school such as bullying, or severe exam stress.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

The U.S. Department of Education warned states this week that federal school aid may be withheld withheld next year if less than 95 percent of students take government - mandated exams.

«We were freaking out [about] what students were going to have to do,» he said of the cut, which he estimated would have impacted 100 to 150 of the school's 400 students, who rely on the January exams to catch up if they missed their spring or summer graduation dates and also to prepare for the summer exams.

If parents don't send a child to school on the day of testing to boycott the exams, the child will then be forced to take a makeup test.

Sen. George Latimer, a Westchester Democrat, told City & State he's not sure if he would pass a high - school level state exam based on the new, more difficult Common Core curriculum standards, and he bets not all of his colleagues would pass it, either.

Speaking to Citi News, the President of the Association, Noah Tetteh, said, «we are asking for students to be allowed to go to the law school, and directly after that, there should be an examination that they will take and if they pass that exam, then those who make it will be called to the Bar as lawyers.

WILLSBORO — Willsboro Central School teacher Ashley Hooper gave her students a challenge in October: If 60 percent of the class achieved mastery on the Living Environment Regents Exam, she would allow them to cut her long hair.

The dean had warned him that if he failed one more exam, he would have to drop out or repeat that year of medical school.

If you did not graduate from a qualified school, you must apply to be approved to take the exam.

I was asked by a high school media specialist if I would be interested in helping their students deal with the anxiety of final exams.

In fact, when I took it in high school our teacher said if we had an A in the class before the final then our final exam score wouldn't count.

If your school does not offer the AP exams, check with your school counselor to find schools in the area that do administer the exams, as well as the dates and times they re offered.

Even when these challenges are met, one can not be entirely sure of the results, as exit exams may influence student and school performance even before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the case.

Participating students were not generally required to take exams — certainly not state exams — and even if they were, the results were not released by schools in ways that would inform parental choices or lead to administrative actions for chronically low performing schools.

They were first year programs or times when exams were coming up and they had other pressures on them, or professional experience itself — which could be quite confronting if they were going to a school that wasn't what you might consider «culturally safe».

As reported by the BBC, The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) states that schools «too often» refuse permissions to attend its exams, even if pupils will only be away from lessons for a couple of hours.

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?»

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the proliferation of high school exit exams, the success of school choice initiatives, and a dozen other smaller if more bitter battles, education has become one of the hottest policy topics in Washington.

If Louisiana policymakers want to ensure parents have access to valuable test data without the significant downsides of a single test, a better solution would be requiring schools to administer one of the many nationally norm - referenced exams.

A federal judge this month refused to delay enforcement of his previous ruling that students who are still learning English can earn a high school diploma even if they have not passed the state's high school exit exam.

If the state had turned the MEAP into a high - stakes exam by making high - school graduation contingent on passing it, this would have affected only those students at the bottom of the achievement curve.

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.

Under the new system, schools are charged # 10 for a clerical check to see if marks were added up correctly and # 29.75 for a marking review, but the charges only apply if there is no change to the exam grade.

It examines a large sample of monozygotic twins in Denmark to see if their cultural activity was related to their teacher - given GPA, exam - based GPA, and rate of completing secondary school.

How would they do if final exams were actually given at the start of this school year, but assessed what they learned the previous year?

67 per cent of respondents said they would send their child to a grammar school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent saying they would not.

Around three - quarters of parents revealed that they would choose a school where children are happy, even if past exam results have not been good.

If, as Warren Buffett said, «Price is what you pay, value is what you get,» then exam schools are a good value, indeed a real bargain, not just for thousands of young Americans and their families, but also for the wider society.

AP exams... college admissions tests... the dreaded state standardized tests... no matter where you are in America, if you teach high school, you're probably teaching to a test.

This is very different from the MCT - based accountability systems of the 1970s, under which students were held accountable, for example, for passing a high school exit exam if they were to receive a regular high school diploma.

And it's cheap: states have to run a high school test anyway, plus parents pay for the college entrance exams if the school system does not.

Is it because German students, if they want to get ahead, must pass exams at about age 10 and again upon finishing secondary school?

We have two different interventions and what we're looking at is, on one arm, to see if delaying the school start time — starting lessons at 10 am versus 9 am — if that improves academic performance in GCSE exams (which people take in the UK when they're about 16).

At one end of the spectrum, some wonder if New York should follow the 37 other states that have already eliminated exit exams amid growing evidence that they don't prepare students for life after high school.

• 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 first involved putting schools «on probation» if less than 15 percent of students scored at or above national norms on the ITBS reading exam.

The only point at which all Finnish students take standardized exams is as high school seniors if they wish to go to university.

If states choose to use this tool, they can require students to either take the same state assessment that all public school students take, or they can allow students to take alternative exams.

However, as with final exams, if they are administered at the end of the school year, teachers may not get results in time for an annual conference.