The SAT: Generalized for Minority populations? Rebecca Mickle University of Hawaii at Manoa INTRODUCTION Colleges and universities take into consideration a number of factors when determining student admissions and eligibility. One such measure is the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Widely thought to be a reliable predictor of student success at the college level‚ the SAT has been a vital component of college admissions for nearly a century (Lawrence
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Communication Level 2 Project – Reading Task The two attached articles cover the story of new French President Francois Hollande’s trip to Germany to visit the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The meeting was of interest as Francois Hollande’s is supposed to be opposed to the austerity measures currently being imposed to tackle the debt crisis by many European countries. This journey was supposedly fraught with trouble‚ so I was keen to find out more about this as well as the results of the meeting
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One paragon of ignoring the authority is Ang Lee‚ the prestigious Chinese-born American director. In 2009‚ Ang Lee planned to direct the movie‚ Life of Pi‚ which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The novel narrated a fantastic story of Pi‚ the protagonist‚ who survived on a sinking freighter on the way from India to Canada and who spent 227 days on the boundless ocean with Hungry‚ a Bengal Tiger. Because of its bizarre plot‚ the novel was considered impossible to be made into a film
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MY SAT ONLINE SCORE REPORT SAT TEST NOVEMBER 03‚ 2012 Page 1 of 10 NOT AN OFFICIAL SCORE REPORT Summary of Results Congratulations on taking the SAT Reasoning Test! You’re showing colleges that you are serious about getting an education. The SAT is one indicator of how ready you are to handle college-level work. The test measures what you learned in high school and how well you can apply that knowledge. Both skills are essential to doing well in high school and in college. CRITICAL
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Should SAT/ACT not be a requirement for the College Application Process? The ACT and SAT are standardized test that are supposed to test how well a student did in high school. The ACT is a national college admissions examination that consists of subject area tests in English‚ mathematics‚ reading‚ and science. The writing part is optional‚ if the student decides to take the writing part‚ it costs more. The SAT is a similar test that test a student’s academic skills used for admission to United States’
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Assessment Task 2 – Manage Recruitment Selection and Induction Processes Save this document to your desktop. Write the answers in the spaces and templates provided. You will need to plan for well detailed and expansive responses. Please ensure that you save your document regularly. Make sure that you save a final copy of your assessment before submitting. Upload your document in the upload section in week 2. Please upload this document as a word document and not PDF for marking and feedback purposes
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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment Two Skills –related tasks Word count: 1082 I acknowledge that this paper is my own work. Trainee: Mileva Genadieva Signature: Date: 18.02.2013 Receptive skills: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being
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Writing task 1 The graph and box illustrate the global rate use by sector from 1990 to 2000 and the water consumption in Brazil and Conso in 2000. The overview of this two picture is there are a rapid increase in water usage in agriculture and citizens from big countries us more water than those small countries. From the graph of global water us by sector‚ we could see there are three sectors of water use such as agriculture‚ industrial use and domestic use. In 1990‚ water use for industrial
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SAT testing is not an appropriate method of measuring a student’s overall intelligence. This popular standardized test is offered in over 176 countries‚ including the United States. The SATs can be the deciding factor of college acceptance‚ making the exam itself too influential on a student’s future. Additionally‚ the test has been taken advantage of numerous times for higher scores. The legitimacy of the SATs is also questioned with the issue of income inequality. Most students in the 21st century
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a man who’s purpose of this test was to exclude minorities and immigrants. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is neither fair nor does it actually measure student’s intelligence or college readiness. The SAT originated for the purpose of excluding minorities and immigrants‚ and to this day the test proves to still have racial bias. In 1926‚ Dr. Carl Brigham‚ the psychologist invented the SAT. He developed it on the basis of an army IQ test‚ a standardized test that placed 1.5 million soldiers into
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