As schools continue to empty, grammar schools are admitting children who failed the entrance exam.
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Of 9, 600 police officers who took the entrance exam in July, only 205 passed the written test.
After three hard years, he took the entrance exam last January and failed.
In Rio de Janeiro's state universities, 20% of places are set aside for black students who pass the entrance exam.
Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.
Mr Liu says the long-term plan is to change the university entrance procedures to place more emphasis on students' performance at school rather than simply on the national entrance exam.
Since no standard method to calculate a graduation rate is enforced nationally, and the college entrance exam boards will only release data below a state level directly to the schools, not the public, we were left to trust county, district and school officials to honestly and accurately report their results.
In 2008, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which runs the GMAT entrance exam required by many business schools, tracked roughly 245, 000 people taking the test, the busiest season ever.
Even though adjusting to life in South Korea was not easy, I made a plan and started studying for the university entrance exam.
Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.
Taking the GMAT entrance exam was a wake-up call that I was about to embark on an experience that would require a lot of maths.
He wants to raise the pass mark on the police entrance exam, introduce annual testing and a requirement that all new recruits have three A-levels.
Most still come from better-off families, partly because these can better afford the fees, partly because pupils from private schools outclass those from public ones in the national entrance exam that almost all universities use.
Only 43% of the 1.66 million private- and public-school students who took the college-entrance exam posted scores showing they are prepared to do well in college, according to data released by the College Board, the nonprofit group that administers the SAT.
Mr Evans was keen to emphasise that Colyton, whilst being a selective school, does not have the most challenging entrance exam.
But in return Marin delivered results above the national average: 96.8% of its seniors graduated, and 60.4% of them took the SAT college entrance exam and scored a mean 1133 (out of 1600).
The team created an entrance exam that forced them to use their smartphones interacting with posters to identify and treat medical conditions.
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He said medical schools are turning away hundreds upon hundreds of candidates "who meet all the standards, who are scoring in the 90th percentile" on the medical-school entrance exam.
Alice Kaplan, a close student of French intellectual life, quotes an anti-Nazi teacher who, when coaching pupils for the Ecole's entrance exam, wondered if they would put their intelligence and learning to misuse.
The school has even introduced an entrance exam to filter them.
The education minister has called on the Catholic grammar schools running entrance tests this weekend to name the private donor paying for the exam.
Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.
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One unfortunate trend with the growth of higher education has been an increasing emphasis on exam and grades oriented learning, fueled by the proliferation of competitive entrance exams for science, engineering, medicine, law, etc. and tutorial centres who compete to prepare the students for these exams.
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They would have to use the same entrance criteria, which would be straightforward if students were admitted according to their exam results.
These living fossils are wildly popular (last autumn one Surrey grammar school had to call the police for crowd control when 1, 500 children turned up to sit its entrance exam for 126 places), but their freedom is being eroded.
With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT, depending on which is more common in the state), exam participation rates and graduation rates.
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