Sentences with phrase «secondary school exam»

Atherton, a lecturer in English language and literature at Oxford University, says that in 1930, Tolkien was grading secondary school exam papers at his home in North Oxford, and he was bored.

In some of these cases, the secondary school exams are used to determine placement in the next level of schooling such as in Singapore and Shanghai where the lower school - leaving exam determines placement in upper secondary school.

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Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math 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.

In secondary school my art teacher taught embroidery as the practical classwork element of our Higher Grade Art exam and from the moment my chosen fabric was first stretched in the embroidery hoop I was completely hooked.

Pupils who pass the exam go to the local grammar school, while pupils who do not go to the local «secondary modern school».

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

The girls were taking exams at a secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 when the Islamist gunmen surrounded it, loaded them onto trucks and carted them off.

Aside from the worrying rise in childhood obesity, recent reports have found that secondary school pupils are suffering from stress and anxiety in the run up to exams, on top of the natural pressures of developing as a teenager.

By the time Tamara reaches Standard Eight, she has overcome all of these challenges and proudly passes her Primary School Leaving Certificate Exam for entrance into secondary sSchool Leaving Certificate Exam for entrance into secondary schoolschool.

From mid-October, parents choosing a secondary school for their child will for the first time have access to provisional GCSE exam results to help them finalise their choices.

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.

The Sources of Wisdom workbooks help secondary school teachers to meet the requirements of the AQA, Edexcel, OCR and eduqas exam boards by providing the Bible passages which are relevant to each syllabus in one student booklet.

Summer schools are set up alongside primary and secondary schools to help support those children who may need a little extra support after their KS2 exams.

Studying the association between academy status for primary and secondary schools and their pupils» attainment in the Key Stage 2 tests and GCSE exams from last year, NFER claims that there is no significant difference between the performance of primary academies and maintained schools.

New research by online tutor service, Tutor Hunt, today revealed that 88 per cent of primary and secondary students surveyed felt there is pressure on them to perform to a certain level in exams, yet almost half (42 per cent) revealed that despite this, their school does not, or is unable to, offer any additional support.

Our primary colleagues won't see pupils leaving until the end of the year (although the pressure of Sats may be off for some), and in some secondary schools there is a frankly baffling policy of giving exhausted teachers a whole new timetable the second the GCSE exams start.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» these academically selective institutions have long been a part of the American secondary - education landscape.

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

Secondary head teachers in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) will be meeting Muslim groups to consider how they can work together to work out the logistics of the clash between Ramadan and the exam season.

According to the data released by the education research firm, about 20,000 secondary students left school before sitting their exams.

In the UK, Studytracks is aimed at secondary school and college students (11 -18-year-olds) studying for their GCSE, AS & A-Level exams.

Other reform tactics included reducing the size differences between secondary schools (secondary schools used to be the largest across OECD countries but are now the smallest), decentralization, increased school autonomy, professional development, and the introduction of national exams.

The exam regulator has revealed plans to ask government to make its National Reference Test (NRT) mandatory for a sample of 300 secondary schools across the country, commencing in March 2017.

The survey, that was carried out by online homework and exam - preparation service for secondary schools, SAM Learning, gained over 400 teacher responses.

Firstly the good news: since the introduction of the new curriculum, the numbers taking GCSE Computer Science have increased each year with over 67 000 or roughly 12 per cent of candidates taking the exam this summer and the majority of secondary schools entering candidates.

With only four secondary schools to serve tens of thousands of children, the schools used a cutoff score on an entrance exam to determine which students would enroll.

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.

A more typical pattern among the top - performers is a required gateway exam, or an exam that allows a student to move on to the next phase of education, at the end of primary school, the end of lower secondary school and the end of upper secondary school.

If they remain in secondary school beyond that age, they take «advanced» or «A» level exams.

SchoolDash created a sample of secondary academies and local authority schools with similar characteristics to see how their exam results compare.

Ben King, a secondary school geography teacher in Devon who is himself colour blind, told Schools Week he that sees «a couple of examples each year» of exam scripts that are «totally inaccessible» to colour - blind pupils.

-- If children do not meet Level four in their «exams» at the end of primary school, they must resit at secondary school

Examples of standardized tests include the ITBS for elementary students; and for secondary schools the PSAT, SAT, ACT as well as Advanced Placement exams.

Secondary schools bands are based on GCSE exam performance, but also take into account other factors such as attendance and the number of children receiving free school meals.

Head teacher Ian Fenn has appealed for «a period of calm», blaming changes to curriculums and exams for a lack of improvement in some secondary schools.

In their 2012 book, «Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational models.

Y11 pupils at the seven partner secondary schools benefit from weekly GCSE revision classes in the spring term for A / A * and C / D borderline English & Maths and in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, History, Spanish and French, & attend a talk on exam stress by our school counsellor.

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

Secondary schools report the number of credentials earned by students for passing Board - approved credentialing exams.

The Ministry of Education is trying to reduce the emphasis on the primary school exit exam, which all students have to take to determine which secondary school they will attend, for instance.

Both reactions are a testimony to how much he has come to dominate the education debate - as, in a breakneck four years, he turned most secondary schools into academies and re-wrote the exam system.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

The plans, announced by the Department for Education, will mean that parents looking at local secondary school places for the following autumn will have the most up - to - date exam results, at least in provisional form.

If children do not meet level 4 in their «exams» at the end of primary school, they must re-sit at secondary school The re-sits for 11 - year - olds were scrapped in October last year by Justine Greening.

That included a consultation on primary assessment and a U-turn on a government manifesto pledge that all children who do not achieve the required score in reading and maths at the end of primary school must resit their exams at secondary school.

We're visiting some of the highest - and lowest - performing schools in China to try to uncover The Secret — how is it that Shanghai's public secondary schools topped the world charts in the 2009 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) exams that measure the ability of 15 - year - olds in 65 countries to apply what they've learned in math, science and reading.

For high schools: College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high school.

For example, both Oregon and Georgia use the Praxis II Mathematics: Content Knowledge exam for the licensure of prospective secondary school math teachers (a test judged to be at the advanced high school level.

Many schools require an entrance exam; most middle and high schools require the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) or the SSAT (Secondary School Admissions Teexam; most middle and high schools require the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) or the SSAT (Secondary School Admissions TeExam) or the SSAT (Secondary School Admissions Test).