Some test preparation experts believe that the new GMAT exam, which the Graduate Management Admissions Council will introduce in June 2012, could require test-takers to study for as much as 30 to 40 extra hours in order to obtain high scores, according to an article in the Financial Times this week.
The new GMAT exam will replace one of the two essay questions that is part of the existing exam with an integrative reasoning test featuring four more types of questions than the current quantitative and verbal sections. Andrew Mitchell, director of pre-business programs at test preparation firm Kaplan, is warning prospective applicants that are planning to take the new exam that they could need to prepare for longer to get a high score.
According to GMAC’s own research, test-takers currently study an average of 100 hours in preparation for the GMAT. Mi Read more…
Marblehead Elementary School commemorated its 10th anniversary with a Hang Ten Homecoming Carnival on Friday evening at the San Clemente campus.
The festival featured a Marblehead Alumni Alley with memorabilia such as yearbooks and photos, plus a video and photo booth, a garden tour, crafts, tile painting, a video-game truck, inflatables, face painting, train rides, a bake sale, a DJ and food.
In 1998, My mom brought me to the U.S., I was only eleven years old, two days after my arival to the U.S., I attended Riverview school in Round Lake Wisconsin. My teachers found out that I couldnt speak a word of English, one of the many teachers at the school found the Rosetta Stone. She made me work with the program about four hours a day, five days a week, Im not saying that Rosetta Stone taught me everything, but if I have to say, It counts for 85% of the English I learned in those first four months. With me learning the language so fast, it made me handle the transition of my new life fast. After that I was able travel to many places, help my family with translation, etc.
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They graduated from elementary school relatively unscathed, thanks to the healing powers of the cootie shot.
But it’s middle school where kids contend with overwhelming emotional, neurological, physical and cognitive changes — and national and local leaders say the middle child of K-12 education has been long overlooked in school reforms.
Since returning to session, the D.C. Council has been examining the District’s public middle schools, which tend to be underenrolled, inconsistent in their academic and after-school offerings, and complicit in a high dropout rate among ninth-graders.
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