General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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Standard deviation can be difficult to interpret as a single number on its own. Basically‚ a small standard deviation means that the values in a statistical data set are close to the mean of the data set‚ on average‚ and a large standard deviation means that the values in the data set are farther away from the mean‚ on average. The standard deviation measures how concentrated the data are around the mean; the more concentrated‚ the smaller the standard deviation. A small standard deviation can
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The age-old double standard of sexuality and gender is a historical and still currently prevalent issue that both male and females both face‚ though one more than the other. A double standard‚ as defined by Merriam Webster‚ is a set of principles that apples differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another. It is clearly evident that there are double standards within the sexes regarding sexuality. Women are ridiculed‚ shamed‚ and stigmatized for being
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How do rainbows form? 2-24-2007 One of the most fascinating things occurring in nature‚ is the formation of a rainbow. Everyone‚ at one time or another has seen a rainbow‚ and without a doubt‚ has wondered why these beautiful things are not seen all the time? This is exactly what will be explained in this paper. A rainbow‚ simply put‚ is the dispersion of white light (from the sun)‚ through a prism (raindrops) into a visible spectrum. To see the rainbow the viewer must be between the
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Kierra Roberts 1-4-11 11B How Do Batteries Work? Electricity is the flow of electrons through a wire‚ that is called a circuit. Batteries have three parts to them‚ an anode‚ a cathode‚ and an electrolyte. The cathode and the anode are hooked up to an electrical circuit. The chemical reaction that is happening causes the electrons to build up at the anode. When the circuit is closed the electrons will be able to get to the cathode. When the electrochemical process change the
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How does Apple do it? Case Study on Premium Pricing In the previous post we discussed how you can charge premium price without losing sales and still have customers love your products. No one does this as well as Apple‚ the most valuable company in the world by market value. Apple never competes on equal playing field with their competitors. They write their own rules and come up with innovative products that no one has dreamed off year after year. Their slogan explains how they have been able do
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I. Introduction A. Have you ever wanted to throw or slam someone B. I will be demonstrating how to do a hip toss C. To correctly do this throw you will need a subject to preform move on and in your wrestling stannic. II. Body A. First you must be prepared to do the move‚ to prepare for this move like all wrestling moves it needs to be set up before being performed on the subject. 1. A good set up is the under hook a. To start the under hook you will need take your
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1. Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It operates a network of over 1‚700 branches and outlets (including subsidiaries‚ associates and joint ventures) across more than 70 countries and employs around 87‚000 people. It is a universal bank with operations in consumer‚ corporate and institutional banking‚ and treasury services. Despite its UK base‚ around 90% of its profits come
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In contemporary society the Standard variety of English is the most commonly used as it is respected and associated with a higher prestige. Its usage is also advocated by prescriptivists who believe that it is the ‘correct’ and only variety that should be used. Standard English is usually seen in formal settings‚ where its usage is necessary for official and public purposes. However‚ contextual factors play a vital role in determining the most appropriate variety to be used‚ which is supported by
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Drugs and Sports Have you ever wondered how many professional athletes take performance drugs? Well about one athlete out of every ten athletes have taken performance enhancing drugs sometime in their career. Athletes take these drugs to increase their level of play on the field or on the court. These athletes gain an unfair advantage on their opponents. Steroids are ruining sports all around the world‚ as they continue to attract people to these substances‚ but we can reduce the steroid use in sports
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