The SAT and ACT are standardized tests that are supposed to measure a student’s college readiness. These tests have reading‚ math‚ writing‚ and in the ACT‚ science. The average score on the SAT is a 1500 out of 2400‚ and on the ACT‚ the average is 21 out of 36. Although some people believe that standardized testing is an equal way to test students for college‚ standardized testing should not be used in the college application process because they do not prove that students will do well in college
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Why I chose this topic: Should the SAT be used for college admissions? The SAT has been a huge controversy for a long time‚ however‚ it wasn’t until several months after getting into college that I began to really question why it’s used for admission. The only answers I really got from the college board was that it is “designed to assess your academic readiness for college and provides a path to opportunities‚ financial support and scholarships‚ in a way that’s fair to all students. It also keeps
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How to prepare for the SAT By Saketh Challa‚ Matthew Hoffman‚ and Surya Pulukuri 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Manage your time wisely during the test. Skip questions you cannot answer quickly. Get a good nights sleep before the day of the exam. Eat a good breakfast before the day of the exam. Make educated guesses about the correct answers. Answer the easy questions before harder questions. Do practice tests. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Capesse tuum tempus sapienter per examen. Omitte quaesita quae non potes respondere subito
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The Effects of SAT and ACT Test Scores on Students Too often students find themselves cramming information they should know before taking a test. Initially‚ they’ll study the information‚ and mundanely forget it soon after the test. Students often say “getting grades is the most important thing about school” (LeCompte). The more emphasis teachers and parents’ place on performance‚ the more students become set back by a failure‚ which makes an even more vigorous point to this argument (Heyman and
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SAT I 2011 / 2012 Question booklet # 8 Grade 12 Cluster Core Subject Mathematics Student Name Student Number Section Coverage SAT I‚ basic reasoning questions. 1. If 10 + x is 5 more than 10‚ what is the value of 2x? (A) −5 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 25 (E) 50 2. If x and y are positive integers‚ what are all the solutions (x‚ y) of the equation 3x + 2y = 11? (A) (1‚4) only (B) (3‚1) only (C) (1‚4) and (2‚2) (D) (1‚4) and (3‚1) (E) (2‚2) and (3‚1) 3. When 70‚000 is written as 7.0 × 10n‚ what
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who wish to prepare for the SAT exam. The level of aptitude in this subject will assist students wishing to excel on the SAT and in college courses. According to the College Board’s website‚ AP Biology courses are designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory course‚ usually taken during a biology major’s first year of college. Students who choose to take AP Biology may be allowed to skip over introductory biology courses and enroll in courses in which biology is a prerequisite. Because
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increasingly complex models at all levels of biology. This paper shows the innovations in studying biology. It discusses the biological level of organization and it also describes the model that has seem to be found on the said level. It was also discussed on this paper that the complex models that was developed for the past few years must have the new methods and techniques to model it. The journal tackles the level of organization‚ multi-scale in modelling in biology‚ MD of ion channels and heart modelling
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David Wilson Mrs. Jensen English 101-014 14 November 2012 The SAT Put to the Test Thesis: The ETS is negligent towards the statistics that show that the SAT is not a fair way of measuring a students academic worth and thus should be replaced or remodeled‚ because there are better and easier ways of measuring learning ability‚ biased to the lower class children that take them‚ and not the first choice of information that colleges are interested in when enrolling students. I. School faculty should
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BIOLOGY Biology is the study of life -- life in all of its grandeur. From the very small algae to the very large elephant‚ life has a certain wonder about it. With that in mind‚ how do we know if something is living? Is a virus alive or dead? What are the characteristics of life? These are all very important questions with equally important answers. Characteristics of Life Living tings include both the visible worlds of animals and plants as well as the invisible world of bacteria and viruses.On
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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms‚ including their structure‚ function‚ growth‚ evolution‚ distribution‚ and taxonomy.[1] Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field‚ composed of many branches and subdisciplines. However‚ despite the broad scope of biology‚ there are certain general and unifying concepts within it which govern all study and research‚ consolidating it into single‚ coherent field. Biology generally recognizes the cell as the basic unit
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