Universities want A-levels to be more intellectually stretching and with less spoon - feeding from teachers, according to
a study from an exam board.
Not exact matches
Students will
study about illegal performance enhancing drug use and the the barriers that limit female involvement in sports in the new PE GCSE
from exam board OCR.
It is based on the information
from the Citizenship
Studies text book
from Hodder and is useful for the OCR GCSE, but it would probably be useful for any
exam board since it covers a lot of information on the law.
To frame those
exams and the courses that prep kids for them, the College
Board appoints committees of professors
from the relevant discipline, as well as some high school teachers (most of whom had
studied with such professors).
Last school year, the
board approved eliminating standardized summative
exams — those that test students» knowledge around the end of the school year — in social
studies for all grades, and approved reducing science standardized summative tests
from grades three through 11 to just grades four, six and 10.
«The
exam boards have welcomed this steer
from the regulator and are to look again at these qualifications and how the rules are interpreted to make sure that young people taking them have to
study an appropriate range and depth of the subject.»
If you graduate
from a doctoral veterinary school program, you'll receive a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, or DVM, and you'll need to
study and pass the national and state
board exams.