| 单词 | entrance exam |
| 例句 | Without an entrance exam, how could I be sure of getting into Shi-yi? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She just happened to take the entrance exam, and happened to get through. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had scored so high on the Trinity entrance exam that he had been awarded one of the rare Trinity scholarships—one hundred dollars contributed toward his tuition, and his picture in the paper. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembers the overheated dance hall from the entrance exams four years before: ladder nailed to the wall, crimson flag with its white circle and black cross below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Although he was keen to go to university, he wasn't able to pass the entrance exams. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He scored well on his medical school entrance exams and, after another year at Brown, he will head to the St. Louis University School of Medicine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Instead of an entrance exam, teachers are assigning students to their schools.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eighteen when his father sent him east to study with private tutors to prepare him for the entrance exams for Harvard and Yale. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Its students score a good 10 to 15 percent higher on their entrance exams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “He had to kill ten people to pass the entrance exam.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The boy from the entrance exams trembling before he fell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the scale of difficulty seen in the math section of a typical college entrance exam, the problem probably would rank around the middle. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Over the summer, I take the entrance exam to the Republica de Ecuador and pass it with a score high enough that the head of admissions wants to interview me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no entrance exams or admissions requirements. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But without an entrance exam, how would they pick the students for the elite schools ? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Though at other moments, flickering in front of him, he sees the big kid from the entrance exams: his face gone bloodless atop the platform high above the dance hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the early 1990s, by contrast, poorer students got 50 percent more aid on average than the wealthier ones, according to the College Board, the organization that runs the SAT entrance exams. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z How did he make it through the entrance exams? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like studying for the college entrance exams, exams he would need to ace if he had any hope of going away, getting away, though the thought of going made his stomach clench. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was being given an entrance exam to the University of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But he failed the entrance exam. “I was relieved,” he recalls. “I felt freer.” The Hammer biennial's breakout star? A 78-year-old retired gardener from Compton who once worked for Marlon Brando 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z All three kids sailed through the entrance exams and school interviews. Our worst year yet, in the best-ranked school district 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z His earlier dream of becoming an artist was dashed when the young man twice failed to pass the entrance exam for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Berlin auctioneer expects British, Russian interest in Hitler... 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Which was fitting, because at times, the whole city felt like an entrance exam I hadn’t studied for. In Berlin, History Squares Off Against Hip 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The top universities have such an excess of qualified applicants they could limit their candidates to the best students with perfect entrance exam scores, admissions experts say. U.S. college bribery scandal grates on those who missed the cut 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Last year, Cin Ali became a pawn in allegations of result-fixing in the annual university entrance exam, a scandal that the political opposition used to hammer the government. Turkey struggles to preserve childhood cartoon 2012-05-24T06:21:08Z For some students, this summer’s greatest challenge may be studying for college entrance exams while also allowing plenty of time for extracurricular and social activities. 4 Ways Students Can Prep for SATs Over the Summer 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Marlon, unlike Green, is mostly immune to social tensions, sitting by himself at lunchtime studying for the entrance exam to Boston Latin, the city’s elite public school, where Green also aims to transfer. Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Instead of cramming for the university entrance exam, he spends his days reading novels at the library. Haruki Murakami on Asking the Right Questions 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z We would each take the next regularly scheduled college entrance exam. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: That time I challenged the president to a duel 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Ninagawa had hoped to become an artist in high school but failed the entrance exam for the Tokyo University of the Arts. Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Who Directed Avant-Garde Productions of Classics, Dies 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s a character named One Drop, a dreadlocked “WASPafarian,” and an entrance exam that includes questions like, “Was O. J. Simpson guilty?” and “What are your feelings about mayonnaise?” ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z He passed the entrance exam to study chemistry, but, lacking the tuition money, he went to work at a photo lab. Raoul Coutard, Cinematographer of the French New Wave, Dies at 92 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Before attending college, she would have to get a diploma and take entrance exams. Trayvon Martin's friend gets scholarship offer 2013-07-18T04:37:16Z And after passing an entrance exam, he was granted admission to a law school there. Francisco Joaquin is 63 and retired. And he’s quite possibly D.C.’s oldest intern. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Worse still, he says he doesn't want to sit his Oxford entrance exam! The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z She applied to the civil service and passed the entrance exam. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In Singapore, extra tuition is so common that parents hire tutors to help their kids pass entrance exams for the best tuition centres. Learning from the world’s swottiest countries 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The school accepts students based entirely on an entrance exam, and the result is that few black and Latino students are admitted. How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The air crackles with anticipation in China's tiny eastern town of Maotanchang ahead of the "gaokao", the annual national college entrance exam more than 9 million students are taking this year. Soup and prayers soothe apprehensive Chinese test takers 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Nikki then shares another story, recalling the time a teacher told her she “got lucky” after acing a French entrance exam, and she said it deterred her from joining a French honor club. Barbie takes stand against racism in latest vlog 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The evening begins with a flurry of ID numbers, questionnaires and one-on-one entrance exams, followed by ... well, a lot of things. | 'Lush Valley': Lush Valley at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:00Z The guys then huddled over what the owner would do; he was contemplating a second try at the police entrance exam, and there was talk of a potential coffee-delivery business. Breathing New Life Into Pop Songs with Choir! Choir! Choir! 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps one item beneath “get an education” is to study for college entrance exams. How to Fulfill Your Dreams When the Magic-Wand Fairy is Late 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z And right after college, Mr. Griff took the entrance exam for medical school. Celebrating Their Love at Home 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z After graduating last June, Tiffany spent her summer months on a paid internship in communications at Warby Parker, the eyewear company, and is studying to take the law school entrance exams. The Other Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s the Lake Wobegon of higher learning whose entrance exam, available at the store’s three locations, is 20 corny word puzzles. In Iowa, an Oasis of Family Vacations Past 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But there was some administrative problem with his admission to City College in New York, and, while waiting for it to be resolved, Taback took the entrance exam for Cooper Union, a top art school. Simms Taback's books offer a brush with greatness 2012-01-07T04:33:16Z Many of its settings and customs—from schoolrooms to bullet trains, from how people eat and dress to the way that they cram for college entrance exams—will undoubtedly resonate with viewers in the region. The Most Popular Anime of All Time Comes to America 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Admissions were extended earlier this week to the upcoming freshman class at Stuyvesant High School, a specialized prestigious public high school in New York City, where a single entrance exam determines acceptance. The entrenched segregation of New York City's public high schools 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Soon she is studying for her college entrance exams. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z The officials ask questions, but only later is it revealed that the interview is part of an entrance exam for what appears to be a high-end school. Movie Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son,’ About Boys Switched at Birth 2014-01-16T22:48:11Z Her mother tutors students on the SAT, ACT and other higher-education entrance exams. Jessica Fye, William Hubbard IV 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z In June 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed eliminating the entrance exam altogether, describing it as "a roadblock to justice, progress and academic excellence." The entrenched segregation of New York City's public high schools 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Felicity Huffman, for example, "made a purported charitable contribution of $15,000 . . . to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter." The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z He offers the part-time gig to Ki-woo, who wanted to go to college, too, but couldn’t pass the rigorous entrance exams—because, it’s said, he was too busy working. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “This is not like an entrance exam,” she said. To find the best fit for private kindergarten, start early 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z I don’t need more reasons to loathe the SAT and the ACT, America’s sorry excuses for college entrance exams. Why do we tolerate the lifeless SAT and ACT? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The sole admissions criteria for New York's elite specialized high schools is a high score on an entrance exam that tests students' skills in math and English, and it's mandated by state law. The entrenched segregation of New York City's public high schools 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z At 16, Thomson took the Cambridge entrance exam and the following year was studying medieval history and political thought. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z Anyway, Ajay’s older brother, Birju, is going to help the family get ahead in America by sitting the entrance exam to the Bronx High School of Science. Flights of fantasy 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z On his first try at the Yale entrance exam, he failed the classics portion but passed algebra. Review | ‘The Letters of Cole Porter’ amount to the last word on a madcap existence 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Goslant, now living with her parents in Cambridge, Mass., is considering taking the law-school entrance exam and other graduate school options. Within a Week, They Fell in Love 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Karl failed the rigorous entrance exam four times, then, he says: “They cut me some slack. They let me in. It was the worst thing they could have done.” Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe? Though she was hesitant, necessity propelled her: She had failed her college entrance exam, causing her mother profound shame, she said. She Never Dreamed of Acting. Now She’s an Oscar Nominee for ‘Minari.’ 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z After graduation, he took the law school entrance exam along with a group of friends. James Foley was a journalist who had to be there The consultant also hired ringers to take college entrance exams for students, and paid off insiders at testing centers to alter students’ scores. TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z "He's just a boy. He's in the ninth grade and hasn't taken his college entrance exams. I don't even understand what's going on with the trial...this is oppression pure and simple." West Bank road tragedy mars young Israeli, Palestinian lives 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z What would have happened if one of us had messed up the bubbles on the entrance exam to Hunter College High School? Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The 18-year-old stood outside the tutoring center in Cairo where she had spent a year cramming for college entrance exams. The World Is Becoming More African 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z After college entrance exams were reinstated in 1977, he enrolled at Peking University to study law and completed a master's degree in economics in 1988. Obituary: Li Keqiang 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z BBC Hindi's Vineet Khare has been talking to pupils who have travelled to Kota to receive tuition to help them pass entrance exams for elite colleges and found many feel intense pressure to succeed. Kota: Stricter rules for India student hub after suicides 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Some prioritise children from a particular religion, or those who pass an entrance exam. Secondary school applications: When is the deadline? 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z They are more likely to look at criteria like grades, test scores, entrance exams and transfer credits. Can You Go Back to College if You Owe on Your Student Loan? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z He had just missed the cutoff on his college entrance exam to enter a top-tier school. In an increasingly pessimistic era, immigrants espouse a hallmark American trait — optimism 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z After about a year, my two friends, who later became a couple, and I took the entrance exams for grad school, completed long applications, gathered transcripts and analyzed tuition costs. A guy from grad school was seriously into me. But did I even have time to date? 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z It is well known for its educational centres, designed to prepare young people for India's highly competitive entrance exams to the best medical and engineering colleges. Kota: Stricter rules for India student hub after suicides 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z She had graduated high school and was preparing for the university entrance exam just as the Taliban took power on 15 August 2021. Taliban stops female Afghan students leaving country to study in Dubai 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Most recently, the Taliban ordered hair and beauty salons in Afghanistan to shut and in mid-July stopped women from sitting the national university entrance exams. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from visiting national park 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z His parents knew the life ahead in Hong Kong: long days and nights of studying for a do-or-die college entrance exam. In an increasingly pessimistic era, immigrants espouse a hallmark American trait — optimism 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Sept. 30, 2022 – A suicide bomber strikes an education center in a Shiite area of the capital, killing dozens of people, including teenagers taking university entrance exams. Two-year timeline of events in Afghanistan since 2021 Taliban takeover 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z When they allowed girls, including those who had not completed their last year of school, to sit for university entrance exams, hopes began to be rekindled. Five key moments in the crushing of Afghan women's rights 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Earlier on Tuesday, Afghan women had been barred from sitting university entrance exams this year - the latest move curtailing what they are allowed to do. Tobias Ellwood: Afghan women slate UK MP's video praising 'country transformed' 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z A Chinese millionaire says he has failed the country's tough university entrance exams for the 27th time. Chinese millionaire fails 27th attempt at passing university entrance exams 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Johnson said Mr. Brissette was about to enter his senior year of high school when he was killed, and he had passed an entrance exam for the Marines. New Orleans Officers Lose Credentials 18 Years After Katrina Shootings 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z "But it was after she wasn't allowed to sit for the university entrance exam, that's when she lost all hope. It's an unbearable loss," he adds, then pauses abruptly and begins to cry. Afghan women face 'pandemic of suicidal thoughts' 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z A 2020 Pentagon study found that just 23 percent of 17- to 24-year-olds can meet service standards, with many failing the military’s entrance exams or fitness and mental tests. Fact-Checking DeSantis’s Opening Bid for the Presidency 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Families take their children to celebrate rites of passage, and many seek blessings for luck in romance, school entrance exams or job interviews. The Religious Right’s Hidden Sway as Japan Trails Allies on Gay Rights 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Most professional guilds are only open to Italian citizens, and have rigid requirements based on academic record, work experience or entrance exam. Skilled, educated and washing dishes: how Italy squanders migrant talent 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Nowhere is the competition for jobs clearer than at the coaching centers that train young Indians for the employment entrance exams at government agencies. India Is Passing China in Population. Can Its Economy Ever Do the Same? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The universities have also expanded once small-scale partnerships with high schools to create a dedicated pipeline of prospective students who get preference in admission without having to take university entrance exams. Japan's plummeting university enrollment forecasts what could be ahead for the U.S. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The entrance exam will be tougher to raft Cherry Creek, an innocently named section of the Upper Tuolumne River that’s considered one of the most challenging commercially run rafting trips in the United States. Steep, freezing and fast: California's epic snowpack promises a whitewater rafting season for the ages 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z He said the services’ shortfalls had more to do with the strong job market and the growing percentage of younger Americans who are out of shape or who fare poorly on entrance exams. Military services face questioning over recruitment shortfalls 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z She had just passed the university entrance exam and planned to become a website developer, but "all that has been wasted," she said. Afghanistan: Hopes fade as universities reopen without women 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Eldest daughter, Fatmagul, 19, has begun preparing for university entrance exams, which she is due to take in a few months. A month after quake, family that survived under the rubble looks to the future 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z She spent two years studying for the entrance exams for France’s grandes écoles, or great schools, then the training ground for a male elite. The Harrowing Personal Story France’s Prime Minister Rarely Tells 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from tertiary education. Rio Tinto apologises after radioactive capsule lost in Australia 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Undersecretary of the Navy Erik Raven faced pointed questioning over the Navy’s recent decision to lower the bar on qualifying scores for its entrance exam as a way to ease the recruiting shortfall. Military services face questioning over recruitment shortfalls 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Higher Education Ministry spokesman Ziaullah Hashmi said Saturday that a letter reminding private universities not to allow women to take entrance exams was sent out. Taliban warn women can’t take entry exams at universities 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Still, he said, the bribery case — along with the country’s racial reckoning and separate legal battles over affirmative action — stirred debate about the fairness of legacy preferences and entrance exams. Wealth looms big as ever in post-scandal college admissions 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z The scheme involved bribes, embellished athletic accomplishments and entrance exam cheating to get the often unqualified children from wealthy families into some of the nation’s most prestigious universities. Ex-Southern Cal official gets 6 months in college bribe case 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The case dubbed Operation Varsity Blues by authorities revealed a scheme to get the children of rich parents into top-tier schools with fake athletic credentials and bogus entrance exam scores. Convictions, prison time: A look at college admissions scam 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Since most are one year away from graduating, she asks them if they have taken their college entrance exams. At this Texas school, every student is a teen mother 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Now Riiid is introducing an A.I.-powered prep platform for the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. Is A.I. the Future of Test Prep? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Some college students, for instance, have lamented their inability to catch it over the past month, worrying that they will get sick during graduate school entrance exams scheduled this week. Without a Covid Narrative, China’s Censors Are Not Sure What to Do 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet only three months ago, the Taliban had conceded to allowing university entrance exams to go ahead. Afghanistan: Tears and protests as Taliban shut universities to women 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In October, the Taliban said that female students could sit for university entrance exams, although they were barred from at least half of the courses of study offered, including journalism, economics and engineering. Taliban frees two Americans detained in Afghanistan 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Three months ago thousands of girls and women sat university entrance exams across Afghanistan. Afghanistan: Taliban closes universities to women 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z After scoring well on the entrance exam, Bratton was offered several options. For Elegance Bratton, a destiny realized in ‘The Inspection’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The makers of the ACT college entrance exam report that average scores fell to their lowest point in 30 years in the latest round of testing. Even families who don’t use Empowerment Scholarship Accounts support them 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z An Afghan teenager who was severely injured in a suicide attack in September has passed her university entrance exams with high marks. Afghan female student injured in suicide attack passes university entrance exams 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z In Kabul on the morning of Sept. 30, nearly 400 young Afghans, primarily members of my country’s Hazara ethnic minority, were gathered inside a tutoring center to take a practice college entrance exam. Opinion | Afghan girls’ will to learn is powerful. Even a bomb won’t crush it. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z "I went to the entrance exam with lots of hope. But when I saw the selection paper, I couldn't find my favourite subject," says a tearful Fatima. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from many university subjects 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It was a practice test in preparation for Concor, a university entrance exam in Afghanistan. Afghanistan: 'More more of us might be killed - but we will win' 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Among the casualties were teenagers taking practice university entrance exams, a Taliban spokesman said. Women protesters demand more security after Afghan bombing 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms Amiri said her teacher helped her to check her results online and found that she had successfully passed her entrance exams. Afghan female student injured in suicide attack passes university entrance exams 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z They arrived on a weekend morning to take a practice college entrance exam in a crowded hall, determined to overcome the massive barriers now facing Afghan women. “She wanted to be a teacher:” Kabul attack kills girls with big dreams 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But the Taliban did make the decision that girls who were in the last year of school could also sit university entrance exams. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from many university subjects 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The victims included high school graduates, both girls and boys, who were taking a practice university entrance exam when the blast went off, Zadran said. Taliban say suicide bombing in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z "We were able to get 300 girls to get an entrance exam and come to our graphic design school. It’s just unbelievable how difficult it's been this year," she said, in tears. At U.N., emotional appeals for world leaders to protect Afghan girls' education 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He sat the entrance exam for Eton, still suffering from a head injury from a croquet mallet accident a week earlier. Bill Turnbull obituary: Beloved BBC Breakfast host 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Friday to take the practice college entrance exam, something the Kaaj Center specialized in. “She wanted to be a teacher:” Kabul attack kills girls with big dreams 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z "All their hopes are gone now," says Fatima, of the girls who would have pursued studies in these areas if they'd passed the entrance exam. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from many university subjects 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The center is known as the Kaaj Higher Educational Center and helps students prepare and study for college entrance exams, among its activities. Taliban say suicide bombing in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In 1946, after a brief stint in the Navy, Katz took the entrance exam to New York’s Cooper Union, the school of art, architecture and engineering that offered free tuition. Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Together they dream of passing the newly reinstated gaokao entrance exam to college and of attending university together. Past and present heartbreaks collide in Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut ‘A Map for the Missing’ 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Before the Western government collapsed last year, Fereshta Alyar, 18, had been in 12th grade and preparing to take the national university entrance exam. With Afghanistan in Their Grip, Taliban Roll Back the Clock 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The academic year starts either in March or August, and it usually takes two to three months for entrance exam results to be announced. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from many university subjects 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Higher education: Title IX: Law ensured balanced cutbacks during pandemic | China’s university entrance exams are already stressful. A quarter of D.C. kids are behind on routine vaccines, officials say 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Still, Sabyasachi’s parents wouldn’t pay for his entrance exam, so he sold his science and math textbooks to cover the fee. The Man Who Made the Sari Haute 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z In cities, special prep schools are filled with teenagers hoping to pass the army’s entrance exams. Indian military’s ‘path of fire’ recruitment plan sparks mass unrest 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Khoury was charged more than a year after Ernst and 49 others — including TV actresses and prominent businessmen — were arrested in the sprawling scheme involving bogus athletic credentials and rigged entrance exam scores. Georgetown dad acquitted in final college bribery scam trial 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In some provinces where the candidate numbers were high, entrance exams were held over two or three days. Afghanistan: Taliban ban women from many university subjects 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z China is fighting to keep Covid out of its all-important national college entrance exams. Your Wednesday Briefing: Ukraine’s Strategic Dilemma 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z On Tuesday morning, under a light drizzle, he strode into an exam hall for the “gaokao,” China’s notoriously grueling college entrance exam. China’s university entrance exams are already stressful. Now add covid. 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The district eliminated a notoriously challenging entrance exam and made other changes in an effort to boost student diversity. He beat the best-funded GOP candidate in Virginia’s 10th. Meet Hung Cao. 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Two of the women would have passed the first entrance exam had the results not been rigged, it added. Women awarded damages over Japan exam discrimination 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But she did not pass the medical school entrance exam. Karine Jean-Pierre starts job as first Black White House press secretary 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z But she disappointed them by failing her medical school entrance exam. Press secretary hopes her rise helps kids ‘dream bigger’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z In a Saturday announcement underscoring that expectation, Shanghai officials postponed the "gaokao" university entrance exam for city students by a month. Beijing kicks off fresh round of COVID tests as Shanghai postpones crucial exams 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z It was known for its high academic standards and record numbers of high-scoring students in college entrance exams. After Kabul school attack, Afghans fear a return to violence 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A medical school in Japan has been ordered to pay compensation to 13 women for discriminating against them in entrance exams. Women awarded damages over Japan exam discrimination 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The devastation on Tuesday began around 7 a.m. when a blast rocked the Mumtaz Educational Center, a private facility offering tutoring for boys and girls studying for the nationwide university entrance exam. Blasts at Schools in Shiite Area of Kabul Kill at Least 6 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z There is no evidence showing that the foreign-born students entering TJ enjoy any historic privilege; they just did better on the entrance exams. Opinion | Limiting Asian students at Thomas Jefferson is not advancing ‘equity’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Also Friday, a judge is scheduled to sentence Mark Riddell, a former Florida prep school administrator paid handsomely to take college entrance exams for wealthy students seeking admission to elite universities. Bogus test taker get prison in college admissions scam 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The other was a promising high school senior, ranked second in his class and studying for his college entrance exams. After Kabul school attack, Afghans fear a return to violence 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The government has also begun offering college entrance exams in Braille. Disabled Chinese Fight for Equal Rights Despite Paralympic Glory 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It jettisoned an anachronistic entrance exam and application fees that were barriers to economically disadvantaged students and put in place a holistic approach that emphasized student grade-point averages and advanced math requirements. Opinion | Despite court decision, Fairfax’s school board should not abandon the fight for equity 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z They feel they have to pay for extra lessons in maths, Chinese, English and music, or in preparing for competitive entrance exams. 'Lying flat': Why some Chinese are putting work second 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Both petitions quote a judgment from neighbouring Kerala state that upheld a court verdict permitting Muslim students to wear headscarves for a national entrance exam. Karnataka hijab row deepens as students petition court 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z This week’s unrest began with small-scale demonstrations Monday, after young people seeking jobs in the government-run rail sector claimed that an entrance exam was being run unfairly. Protesters torch trains in India as frustration over lack of jobs for young people boils over 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And the entrance exam has fueled the growth of a private and inequitable tutoring industry. How it feels to be an Asian student in an elite public school 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Competition is fierce and students often attend intense coaching ahead of entrance exams - but none of the coaching schools would accept Srikanth. Srikanth Bolla: The blind CEO’s £48m company which nearly didn’t happen 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z City College had maintained a record of his time there, but still he would be required to take an entrance exam, he was told. ‘I Was Not Whole’: Why a Grandfather Went Back to College 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Public broadcaster NHK said three people were conscious after being injured in the morning when another student attacked them with a bladed object as they gathered to take their entrance exam. Japanese students injured in stabbing during entrance exams - media 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z South Korean students are normally so consumed with studying for the college entrance exam, Kim Ha Eun said, “they don’t have time to beautify themselves or even go out much.” South Koreans counting down to first legal drink at midnight on New Year’s foiled by coronavirus curfew 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Bill de Blasio, when he was mayor of New York, suggested the heart of the problem lay with a biased entrance exam. How it feels to be an Asian student in an elite public school 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z South Korea reports its biggest daily jump in coronavirus cases as hundreds of thousands of students take the high-pressure college entrance exam. Omicron variant casts a shadow over Asia's cautious reopening 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The jump comes as hundreds of thousands of masked students flocked to schools on Thursday for the country’s highly competitive college entrance exam, AP reports. Coronavirus news live: Sweden to introduce Covid pass, UK study finds Delta offshoot less likely to cause symptoms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Half a million high school students across Japan are taking the annual university entrance exams this weekend in hundreds of venues across the country. Japanese students injured in stabbing during entrance exams - media 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z But he failed his university entrance exams and ended up in a menial job. What the 'Joker attack' revealed about Japanese society 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Last year, the local school board eliminated an entrance exam for the school and told reviewers to instead consider “experience factors,” such as a child’s socioeconomic background. Opinion | The Democrats need to go back to school 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The man, in his early 20s, approached her as she turned up for her entrance exam. Abuse support fight 'like being controlled again', say CSE victims 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The school would not be cherry-picking students based on an entrance exam, as New York’s top magnet schools did. Perspective | New schools are rising across the U.S. that look like charters but aren’t 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z He tried, and failed, three times to pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo, Japan’s most prestigious state university. Japan’s Election Was Closer Than Usual, Even Though Party in Power Has Hit Snooze 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z One recent Friday morning at the Daqiq Institute, an educational center that tutors students studying for the national university entrance exam, hundreds of girls filed into worn wooden benches to take their weekly practice test. Taliban Allow Girls to Return to Some High Schools, but With Big Caveats 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Bryant detailed that after the flurry of notifications saying “RIP Kobe,” she went to pick up her daughter Natalia, who had been attending a college entrance exam prep class that morning. Vanessa Bryant recounts dealing with 'callous' L.A. County on day Kobe and Gianna died 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z A baseball fan — he supports the Hiroshima Carp, his hometown team — he was an infielder on his high school team and an average student, failing a law school entrance exam three times. Japan’s Likely Next Prime Minister Tries to Set Himself Apart 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The suit argued that not allowing women to take the academy’s entrance exam violated India’s Constitution, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. India Opens Its Highest Military Ranks to Women After Lengthy Fight 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The rapid decline in the use of the SAT and ACT college entrance exams has brought cries of anguish from parents and educators who think this will reduce student readiness for college. Perspective | Cure for loss of SAT/ACT tests: Stop banning high school kids from college courses 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Three days before Pfeifer’s death, his son Terence told his father that he had achieved a high score on the New York Fire Department’s entrance exam and was being offered a position. In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed A biometric scan has been required in recent years to obtain a passport or a driver’s license and to take a civil service or university entrance exam. US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z In previous years, prospective Walls students needed to receive passing marks on the math and English portions of a national standardized exam to even take the school’s entrance exam. D.C. eliminated the admissions test during the pandemic at its most selective high school. It didn’t help diversify the school. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Ammar Yasir, a member of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, personally congratulated Salgy - the student who topped the university entrance exams - on Twitter for her results, and for gaining admission to medical school. Afghanistan's 'Gen Z' fears for future and hard-won freedoms 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Salgy Baran got the highest score in all of Afghanistan on her university entrance exams this year, but she has no answers for what comes next. Afghanistan’s top high school graduate fears for her future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z "It tarnished the reputation of the show for me," admitted another who had taken the entrance exam for the show several times but is now considering his dream of appearing on the program. Mike Richards to remain 'Jeopardy!' producer, take sensitivity training: report 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z She quit after-hours cram school to hang out with her boyfriend, got poor grades and took her college entrance exams only because her mom and sister frog-marched her to the doors of the building. Is Taiwan Next? 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z He applied for jobs with the international divisions of major banks and insurance companies but ultimately joined the Foreign Service — becoming one of a handful of Black professionals — after passing its notoriously difficult entrance exam. Johnny Young, ambassador to four countries, dies at 81 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Daily numbers show the most exaggerated moves began on Monday, July 26, after signals emerged that Beijing was also clamping down on education firms that provide intensive tutoring ahead of university entrance exams. China clampdown concerns spurred record ADR trading 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z "I want to stay in this country and continue our struggle for rights," said Hakiki, who completed the entrance exams and aims to study performance arts management in Istanbul. For transgender Turks, discrimination said to loom larger 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Organizers exempted teachers involved in university entrance exams so as not to disrupt the process for students. Greece: Public workers strike over proposed labor law 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “I reject that we need an entrance exam on civil liberties to establish the bona fides needed to work here,” he said. Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the ACLU Faces an Identity Crisis 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z “These people were preparing for the university entrance exam when the Taliban attacked them,” Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s national security adviser, said on Saturday. Afghan Blast on Eve of U.S. Pullout Deadline Kills at Least 27 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z He added: “So much is being placed on the entrance exam, but it should not be viewed as a scapegoat.” Only 8 Black Students Are Admitted to Stuyvesant High School 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Schools will return to distance education, apart from classes preparing for high school and university entrance exams. Turkey imposes partial Ramadan lockdown amid record cases 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The entrance exams are notoriously tough, and the ENA's intake is dominated by students from privileged backgrounds. ENA: Macron to scrap French leaders' elite training school 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The other tangible factor in Tsang’s film is the very real pressure surrounding China’s national college entrance exams, known as Gaokao, the prepping and taking of which captures the country’s interest every June. China's 'Better Days' puts destructiveness of school bullying at the forefront 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z At least 40 students, most from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority, died as they studied for college entrance exams. Risking Death, Hazara Students Pursue Education at Bombed Academies 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The scam was masterminded by Rick Singer, an education expert who used part of the money to fraudulently inflate entrance exam results and to bribe officials. Operation Varsity: How the rich and famous cheated the US university system 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The entrance exam for those schools is largely controlled by Albany. Lawsuit Challenging N.Y.C. School Segregation Targets Gifted Programs 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z During the early 20th century, Ivy League schools fretted about the growing number of Jewish students being admitted based on their entrance exam scores. Perspective | Elite public schools won’t become more diverse just by ditching exams 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z In other regions, only students preparing for high-school or university entrance exams will attend schools full-time. The Latest: Brazil health officials urge lockdowns, curfews 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Aged 11, she passed the entrance exam for the Lycee Malalai - a leading French school for girls that was free to attend. Afghanistan: A year of violence on the road to peace 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Thirteen months later, on the other side of the city, 40 students were killed when an Islamic State bomber detonated himself at a university entrance exam preparation center. They Built Libraries to Honor Loved Ones, Women Felled by Bombings 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z These changes were integrated into the national university entrance exam, the gaokao, so that any secondary school student in China who wanted to go on to university would have to demonstrate mastery. How Chinese infrastructure is reshaping the planet 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z In San Francisco and New York, many Chinese American kids attend “cram” schools to prepare for ninth-grade entrance exams, making them overrepresented at the elite schools in those cities. Perspective | Elite public schools won’t become more diverse just by ditching exams 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Nearly four million hopefuls took the graduate entrance exam last month, an almost 11 percent increase from the year before and more than double the number from 2016. China’s College Graduates Can’t Find Jobs. The Solution: Grad School. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z After two years on the journal, Yasini joined the law department at her old university and then, aged just 25, she passed the judicial entrance exam - the gateway to becoming a judge. Afghanistan: A year of violence on the road to peace 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z School is also online, making things even tougher for those preparing for the annual university entrance exam, a rite of passage seen as a life-defining event in South Korea. Scarred by 2020, Gen Z looks to a COVID-free future 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The mayor’s focus on the specialized school entrance exam at that time prompted sharp criticism that he was discriminating against the low-income Asian-American children who attend those schools in large numbers. New York City Will Change Many Selective Schools to Address Segregation 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But she found living by herself in Houston lonely, and in February Maureen moved down to keep her company; she could just as easily prepare for her own medical school entrance exam in Texas. Texas doctor, 28, dies of Covid: 'She wore the same mask for weeks, if not months' 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z South Korea is forging ahead with its annual nationwide college entrance exam, despite unease over rising coronavirus infection rates. Testing times: South Korea holds high-stakes college exam as COVID-19 cases rise 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “The college entrance exam itself is already a huge barrier, but now there is another barrier called the coronavirus.” South Korea coronavirus outbreak adds new stress to gruelling, eight-hour exam 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He recalls the final paper of the entrance exams, which he sat in 1980. PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The mayor’s only major previous attempt to integrate schools — pushing the State Legislature to get rid of the entrance exam for the city’s elite specialized high schools — failed. New York City Will Change Many Selective Schools to Address Segregation 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Ross, whose website offers reviews of test prep materials for college and graduate school entrance exams and bar exams, has kept revenue stable by offering discounts. Business owners upbeat about vaccine, wary as virus spreads 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z At Thursday’s grueling all-day college entrance exam, students will be required to wear masks throughout, with plastic dividers separating their desks. Testing times: South Korea holds high-stakes college exam as COVID-19 cases rise 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He grew up poor in Hangzhou, struggled in school and failed his university entrance exams twice. Jack Ma's terrible week 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z Our important foreign competitors don’t hesitate to require rigorous entrance exams at all levels to ensure the ability of their candidates to solve the truly hard problems in the actual course work. Opinion | Scrapping Thomas Jefferson High School’s entrance exam is a mistake 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z When South Korea resumed in-person classes in phased steps in May, authorities let high-school seniors return first to let them prepare for the national university entrance exam in December — a crucial test in their lives. Pandemic widens learning gap in education-obsessed S. Korea 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Though Occidental College offered him an athletic scholarship, Padilla could not pass the English entrance exam. Appreciation: Al Padilla was more than just an East L.A. coaching legend 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z About half the class took college entrance exams, but almost no one scored at a college-ready level. At Jack Yates High School, sports — not study — was seen as the ticket out 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He passed his university entrance exam at the third attempt and went to teachers college. Jack Ma's terrible week 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman, also pleaded guilty for paying $15,000 to have someone rig her daughter’s college entrance exam. Former tech CEO gets home confinement for admissions bribe 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman, also pleaded guilty for paying $15,000 to have someone rig her daughter’s college entrance exam. Former tech CEO gets home confinement for admissions bribe 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z High schoolers who did not attend classes would be expelled and blocked from taking the college entrance exam. Why is China cracking down on its 'model minority'? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z David Sidoo, a Canadian businessman and former professional football player, pleaded guilty to one charge of mail fraud conspiracy for paying Singer to fix entrance exams for his two sons. State auditor: UC wrongly admitted well-connected students 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z He failed the entrance exam for the diplomatic service, joining through an alternative process known patronizingly as the “slow stream.” From Miner’s Grandson to Lord Darroch of Kew, With a Touch of Irony 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z A fellow actress, “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman, served nearly two weeks in prison last year for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter’s entrance exam. Few parents, coaches still fighting charges in college scam 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. de Blasio’s own arguments about the need to eliminate the entrance exam for the eight specialized high schools would appear to support a case against the District 2 priority. A Perk for N.Y.’s Richest Areas: First Dibs on Top Public Schools 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The government has resisted a mass campaign by students to postpone entrance exams for medical and engineering colleges due to be taken by about two million students next month. Coronavirus live news: Queensland steps up alert; protesters try to storm Reichstag 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z “The priority is to quickly stem the spread of transmissions and stabilize the situation, if only to hold the Dec. 3 national college entrance exam as planned without disruption,” Yoo said in a news conference. Asia Today: Many schools close again amid South Korea spike 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, some 1.4 million Iranian students began taking their hours-long university entrance exams, which typically see large groups of applicants sitting for the exam in big testing centers. Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, some 1.4 million Iranian students began taking their hours-long university entrance exams, which typically see large groups of applicants sitting for the exam in big testing centers. Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z He also criticized testing efforts and warned of a renewed outbreak next month as universities hold entrance exams and people mark major Shiite holidays. Iran shutters newspaper after expert questions virus numbers 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z He fixed SAT and ACT college entrance exams, created phony profiles that described his clients’ children as promising athletes, and bribed university coaches to advocate for their admission. College admissions scandal: Rick Singer's employee to plead guilty to racketeering 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Maybe the problem isn’t with Thomas Jefferson’s stringent entrance exams but with what happens in the counselor’s office in second grade. Opinion | Racial discrimination in schools starts early 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Inside Cuba, he earned recognition as an articulate historian, originally a self-taught student who through intellect and hard work passed the university entrance exam without a formal education. Eusebio Leal, Castro loyalist who started Old Havana restoration, dies 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z By 7:30 a.m., it was 2 meters high, and factory workers, shop owners and high schoolers who’d woken early for their college entrance exams were climbing onto second floors and rooftops to escape. "Man cannot win against nature": Amid catastrophic floods, China's dams come into question 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z In two years’ time, I would like to be sitting my university entrance exams to study chemistry. From hunger to abuse: how Covid-19 has affected women worldwide 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Last week, students travelled to their national university entrance exam, the gaokao, in kayaks and tractors as well as bathtubs. China floods: 'wartime' measures brought in to tackle worst deluge in decades 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z One sister was a first-year medical student; the other was cramming for the medical school entrance exam. Six months, six countries, six families – and one unrelenting, unforgiving epidemic 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The passengers included high school students taking nationwide university entrance exams that began Tuesday. Bus in China plunges into a lake, killing 21 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The passengers included students taking the university entrance exam. Flooding kills 2, disrupts entrance exams in southern China 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z We met at the entrance exam for Columbia University’s Journalism School in early 2011 and started our careers together, as each other’s first reporting partner. ‘We don’t want her to be remembered as the victim’: Kim Wall’s parents on telling her story 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z According to its website, High Jump helps prepare elementary students from households “of limited economic means” for entrance exams and academic success at prestigious public and private college prep schools. Students, alums see racist culture at Chicago private school 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The exemption for the two standardized entrance exams is only for students applying to enter the university for the 2021-22 academic year, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday. University of Hawaii to make SAT, ACT optional for fall 2021 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In China, despite the new cases raising concerns about a reignited outbreak, 82,000 third-year middle school students in Beijing returned to classes Monday to prepare for their high school entrance exams. South Korea nightclub cases highlight fear of virus 2nd wave 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Despite that, 82,000 third-year middle school students in Beijing returned to classes Monday to prepare for their high school entrance exams. Asia Today: China cases rise, students back, Disney reopens 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z In Beijing, seniors preparing for college entrance exams are returning, while in Shanghai students in their last year of high school and middle school are doing so as well. No More Jenga, No More ‘Amen’ as Cities Learn to Live With Coronavirus 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Shanghai welcomed back pupils in their final years of middle and high school, while Beijing allowed students preparing for China's university entrance exam in July to return. Schools start reopening in China's biggest cities 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z On Monday, almost 50,000 high school students in their third year, the most important for preparing for the national university entrance exam known as the gaokao, returned to class in Beijing. Wuhan discharges all coronavirus patients as Beijing takes steps to stop second wave 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Thousands of students sat for university entrance exams in Hong Kong, as a group of antigovernment protesters staged an unrelated demonstration. Movie Theaters, Urged to Open, Want to Delay Showtime 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The U.C. school system is likewise considering a permanent switch to test-optional after conducting studies and assembling a task force to examine the ongoing value of standardized entrance exams. Dozens of colleges drop SAT/ACT requirements for 2021, some consider permanent change 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z A home version of the SAT college entrance exam is being prepared in case schools remain closed into the fall, College Board officials said Wednesday as they announced the cancellation of June testing. Students could take SAT at home if schools remain closed 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z They include “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman, who was sentenced to two weeks in prison for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter’s entrance exam. Prosecutors: Ex-official to plead guilty in admissions case 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Across the country, the economy is just starting to revive, and the government announced Tuesday it plans to delay the national college entrance exam by a month until July 7-8. Wuhan’s favorite noodles are back as virus-hit city recovers 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The government also said it would postpone university entrance exams until April 24. Hong Kong says rise in imported coronavirus cases could trigger community outbreak 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Just over 3 percent of black students who took the schools’ entrance exam scored high enough to receive an offer this year. This Year, Only 10 Black Students Got Into N.Y.C.’s Top High School 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A scripted system that helped her efficiently master the content of the high school entrance exam was exactly what she wanted. Can computers ever replace the classroom? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The country’s education ministry announced the cancellation of national exams and professional entrance exams for at least three weeks. Coronavirus causes French voters to stay away from local elections 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Writing last October for Foreign Affairs, for instance, former diplomat William Burns noted that fewer people took the department's entrance exam in 2019 than in any year in previous decades. A Giuliani-Trump foreign policy? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z A diligent student, Duan aced his gaokao — China’s national entrance exam — and moved from his secluded hometown to the city of Tianjin, studying literature at a top university. How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In an interview with The Times, Mr. Carranza said he regrets not reaching out to Asian-Americans sooner, but said he will continue to push for the elimination of the entrance exam. ‘Fire Carranza!’: Why Asian-Americans Are Targeting Schools Chief 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But the Board of Regents first started requiring admissions standards for public four-year universities in 2005, mandating that freshmen meet certain grade point averages, college entrance exam scores or other benchmarks. Louisiana’s college admissions standards toughened by board 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Each June, about 10 million seniors sit down for their day-long college entrance exam, a single test that can make or break their futures. In China, 200 million kids have gone back to school. Online. 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Each June, about 10 million seniors sit down for their daylong college entrance exam, a single test that can make or break their future. In China, 200 million kids have gone back to school — online 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Stevenson has to take his entrance exams and get back his scores, but said he loves the coaching staff and how the players made him feel like family on his official visit. Etiwanda's Jaylen Clark growing into player UCLA basketball wants 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The inclusion program replaces entrance exams with a staff evaluation, and, once enrolled, provides assistance with understanding ideas conveyed in curriculum, as well as navigating the large campus and participating in recreational and social activities. University to graduate first class in special needs program 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Under the regents’ requirements, LSU’s incoming freshmen must have a 3.0 high school GPA or a 25 ACT college entrance exam score, with up to 4% of the enrolling class allowed exceptions. Louisiana’s college admissions standards toughened by board 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Huffman, known for her lead role in “Desperate Housewives,” paid $15,000 to rig her daughter’s university entrance exams and was subsequently sentenced to 14 days in prison. Felicity Huffman's daughter has been cast in 'The Twilight Zone.' Yes, really 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z One side argues that the city should guarantee procedural equality: it should insure that all students and families are equally informed about and encouraged to study for the entrance exam. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Eventually a kindhearted teacher sneaked Chen back into school and, after Mao died in 1976, he was allowed to take the country’s college entrance exam, on which he scored among the highest in the country. 'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Eventually a kindhearted teacher sneaked Chen back into school and, after Mao died in 1976, he was allowed to take the country’s college entrance exam on which he scored among the highest in the country. ‘Colors of the Mountain’ author Da Chen dies at 57 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Some are accused of paying to get their children into elite universities as fake athletic recruits, while some are accused of paying to rig their children’s college entrance exams. Loughlin’s lawyers say prosecutors are hiding key evidence 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Some are accused of paying to get their children into elite universities as fake athletic recruits, while some are accused of paying to rig their children’s college entrance exams. Loughlin’s lawyers say prosecutors are hiding key evidence 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z High school students’ protests won discounts on public transportation and the waiver of charges for university entrance exams for most students. Students keep driving protests demanding change in Chile 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z He said his son was stressed that night about losing the phone and was trying to prep for a high school entrance exam. A Virginia teen dropped his cellphone down a storm drain. A county crew found it with 1 percent of battery left. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But educators say today’s college students grew up under intense pressure to pass college entrance exams and achieve high grade point averages - giving them little time to learn what some call “Adulting 101.” College students turn to ‘adulting’ classes for life skills 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Authorities say Fox brokered bribes to help wealthy parents rig their children’s college entrance exams. Ex-tennis club chief to plead guilty in college bribery case 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The administrator of a small West Hollywood school where the rich and powerful went to rig their children’s college entrance exams pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom Wednesday to conspiracy to commit racketeering. West Hollywood school administrator embroiled in college admissions scandal pleads guilty 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Dvorskiy, a former director of a private school in Los Angeles, served as a compensated test administrator for the companies that run the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, prosecutors said. Test administrator to plead guilty, parent faces sentencing over U.S. college scam 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The College Board, a nonprofit that also owns the SAT college entrance exam, contacted Muslim advocates Tuesday to discuss the issue, activists said. School leaders in Maryland ask for no AP testing on Muslim holy day 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The letter adds pressure as dozens of universities move away from reliance on college entrance exams. Groups threaten to sue U. of California over SAT, ACT use 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Actress Felicity Huffman was released Friday from federal prison after serving most of a 14-day sentence for paying to rig her daughter’s university entrance exam as part of the wide-ranging college admissions scandal. Felicity Huffman is released after serving 11 days of her 14-day sentence in admissions scandal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Huffman on Tuesday reported to a federal prison in Northern California, where she will spend two weeks behind bars for conspiring to rig her daughter’s college entrance exams. Ex-CEO of PIMCO to plead guilty in college admissions scandal 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The 56-year-old admitted to hiring someone to correct the answers on her daughter's university entrance exam. Felicity Huffman starts jail term in cheating scam 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Heather and two friends convince Meredith to take their college entrance exams for them. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Already disbarred and removed from his prestigious law firm, Gordon Caplan has been sentenced to one month in prison for conspiring to rig his daughter’s college entrance exams. Newsletter: China, if you're listening ... 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The affected test was the entrance exam for 13 grammar schools in the county. 'Solution agreed' after 'impossible' 11-Plus exam 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying to rig her daughter’s university entrance exams. Newsletter: Essential California Week in Review: End-of-session rush in Sacramento 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Since March, when they announced charges against Singer, his alleged accomplices and parents, prosecutors have portrayed the universities and companies that administer college entrance exams as the victims in the case. In college admissions scandal a judge must decide: Does it matter how much parents paid? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Huffman pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge in May, admitting she conspired with college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer to fix her daughter’s entrance exams. College admissions scandal: Prosecutors recommend one-month sentence for Felicity Huffman 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In New York, nearly 1,800 4-year-olds in Manhattan’s largely white and wealthy District 2 took the gifted entrance exam earlier this year. Should a Single Test Decide a 4-Year-Old’s Educational Future? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Singer is the admitted linchpin of a sprawling, nearly decade-long scheme to fix college entrance exams for the children of his wealthy clients and misrepresent them to universities as recruited athletes. College admissions scandal: USC dad wants details on how university admits students 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The city school system is working to improve access to college entrance exams, too. These Baltimore teens’ summer job: Boosting their SAT scores 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The demonstrating officers are angry about cuts in their pay and benefits under the new force, and they are worried that some officers won’t pass compulsory entrance exams for the Guard. Mexico’s López Obrador struggles to contain police uprising 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Every year, nearly 10 million students take the gaokao — China’s national university entrance exam. Daily briefing: Triumphant success of HPV vaccine 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z At the age of sixteen, he went to Paris to prepare for the entrance exams for university. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z David Sidoo, a Canadian businessman and former professional football player, is accused of paying Singer to fix entrance exams for his two sons. After college admissions scandal, UC rolls out reforms 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Last year nine medical schools admitted rigging entrance exams to exclude female applicants. 'There are almost no women in power': Tokyo's female workers demand change 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z According to court documents, Singer and Riddell conspired to help Singer’s clients by boosting their children’s scores on college entrance exams. Florida ‘smart guy’ took tests for kids in college scandal 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Three parents admitted Wednesday to paying tens of thousands of dollars to fix their children’s college entrance exams and pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy in federal court in Boston. Three more parents plead guilty in admissions scheme and admit to paying to rig tests 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Claudia Gómez graduated in 2016 with an accounting certificate, and the smart youngster hoped to continue studying but didn’t pass the tough entrance exam for a place at the country’s only public university. ‘I want justice’: a year on, family of Guatemalan woman shot dead in Texas wait for answers 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Here’s a look at how the U.S. used entrance exams on aspiring immigrants throughout history: AP Explains: Immigrant entry exams had puzzles, delousing 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Samuel spent only three years in secondary school when, aged 17, he felt confident enough to sit for university entrance exams. The boy abducted to guide blind beggars 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z There, he was given a copy of the ACT college entrance exam. Florida ‘smart guy’ took tests for kids in college scandal 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Foreign Service recruiting is also plummeting, with fewer Americans taking its entrance exam today than at any point over the past decade. Opinion | Compete with China? Support a GI Bill for diplomacy. 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Once she was done, Riddell, whose day job was leading college entrance exam preparation at IMG Academy in Florida, corrected her answers. Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in college admissions scandal 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The charity, Key Worldwide Foundation, has since been exposed as a fraud, a vehicle Singer used to launder payments from parents and pay bribes to coaches, a university official and administrators of college entrance exams. Ex-Stanford student whose parents paid $6.5 million under scrutiny from prosecutors 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Singer has pleaded guilty to committing an array of crimes while orchestrating a bribery and cheating scheme in which he rigged students’ entrance exams and bribed coaches to secure slots universities reserved for athletic recruits. Chinese family paid admission scandal’s mastermind $6.5 million for a spot at Stanford 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It stems from a 1964 decision by the College Board, which administers the SAT, to expand its market to Latin America with a Spanish-language edition of the college entrance exam. In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school graduates who want to go to college 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The document labels each college as a “reach,” “match” or “likely,” based on students’ grades and scores on the PSAT, a precursor to the SAT college entrance exam. D.C. releases guide to prepare teens for graduation, college and careers 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The parents are charged with paying big money to doctor entrance exam scores or get their children admitted to highly selective schools as athletic recruits for sports they didn’t play. Former Texas tennis coach admits to $100,000 bribe in college admissions scandal 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Many try repeatedly to pass ENA's notoriously tough entrance exams, so desperate are they to get in. The elite French school that trains presidents 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Authorities say Riddell took entrance exams in the place of students or corrected their answers. The Latest: Test taker pleads guilty in college bribery scam 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Two of the six bills respond to the fraud itself, in which dozens of parents allegedly rigged college entrance exams or paid bribes to secure spots for their children at exclusive colleges. California Editorial Rdp 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Loughlin and Giannulli were among 33 prominent parents accused of participating in a scheme that involved rigging college entrance exams and bribing coaches at elite universities. Loughlin, husband and 14 parents face new charge in scam 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Huffman, 56, who starred in the TV show “Desperate Housewives,” agreed to pay Singer at least $15,000 to participate in the entrance exam cheating scheme for her oldest daughter, prosecutors said. Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents to plead guilty in college admissions scandal 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He is among 33 parents charged by federal prosecutors in an alleged scheme to sneak the children of wealthy families into top universities with bribes, fake credentials and rigged college entrance exams. Some wealthy parents cut deals, others fight on in college admissions scandal 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z He’s been fired from IMG Academy, where he was director of college entrance exam preparation. The Latest: Test taker pleads guilty in college bribery scam 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Prosecutors says he took his daughter to a psychologist in Los Angeles in order to get medical documentation she would need to receive extended time for an entrance exam. High-profile lawyer admits guilt and defends his daughter in college admissions scandal 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors said last Tuesday that some students never knew about the bribes and fraudulent entrance exams that got them into some of the nation's top universities. USC students who may be linked to college admissions scandal can't register for classes, get transcripts, school says 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Coaches, university officials and dozens of parents — including Hollywood actresses, business executives and a fashion designer — are accused of working in concert to rig college entrance exams and misrepresent applicants as recruited athletes. No soccer experience, but she still got a spot on elite UCLA team in admissions scandal 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The scheme prompted a requirement that students provide a photograph when they sign up for college entrance exams, and that officials check those images against the test takers’ ID. A History of College Admissions Schemes, From Encoded Pencils to Paid Stand-Ins 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A Florida prep school administrator is set to plead guilty to taking entrance exams for students in a nationwide college admissions bribery scheme. The Latest: Test taker pleads guilty in college bribery scam 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z He was in his mid-30s, an ex-tennis professional, and the director of college entrance exam preparation at a boarding school in Florida. Celebrity parents and the bizarre 'cheating' scandal 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A Canadian businessman has pleaded not guilty to paying $200,000 to have someone take a college entrance exam in place of his two sons. The Latest: Yale to review school admission amid scandal 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Most often, the insider said parents and students use his services to prepare for standardized tests and entrance exams. College admissions - the high price of higher education 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z After studying Igbo from primary school through to the conclusion of secondary school, I was confident enough in my knowledge to register the language as one of my university entrance exam subjects. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Court papers say Singer told the feds he met with Macy and Huffman in their Los Angeles home “prior to the December 2017 SAT” and told them “how the college entrance exam scheme worked.” William H. Macy dodges charges in high-profile college admissions scam despite meeting with alleged mastermind 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Additionally, the students were given assistance, if not downright false entrance exams, to "earn admission." The big winner of the college admissions cheating scandal is, of course, James Van Der Beek - Golf Digest 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The school’s website says he was the director of college entrance exam preparation. Test-taker in college scheme suspended from prep school 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The consultant also hired ringers to take college entrance exams for students, and paid off insiders at testing centers to correct students’ answers. Feds charge 50 in widespread US college admissions scam 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z On the way to the cemetery, the Jeep drove past Carlisle Castle, where Mark passed the army entrance exam that set the course of his long, distinguished life. Decorated D-Day veteran honored at funeral with last ride on World War II Jeep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The College Board, which administers the SAT college entrance exam, declined to comment for this story, as did the University of Pennsylvania, where Trump ultimately received an economics degree. Cohen threatened Trump’s schools not to share grades, scores 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Everything leads up to the gaokao, the highly competitive college entrance exam that decides the fortunes of so many young Chinese people. In China, This Video Game Lets You Be a Tiger Mom or a Driven Dad 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Court documents say Riddell took entrance exams in place of students or replaced their answers with his own. Test-taker in college scheme suspended from prep school 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z DeSantis wants to eliminate the college entrance exam requirement from the “Best and Brightest” program. Florida governor pushes for new teacher bonus program 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Although he scored in the top 7 percent on the standardized entrance exam, he didn’t have a bachelor’s degree, and only one of more than two dozen schools accepted him. He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Or if not that, use the ACT college entrance exam instead as the graduation barometer. Mississippi editorial roundup 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Her older brother and sister attended the local secondary schools, but Foy did not pass the entrance exams. Claire Foy Steps Into the Spotlight 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z New employees study the database much like preparing for college entrance exams. Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z She had also failed part of the entrance exams. A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z He said that the boys were high school seniors who were presumably traveling after taking the national college entrance exam last month. 3 South Korean teens presumed dead, 7 unconscious at motel 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The revelations about TMU in August sparked a national outcry, and in response the education ministry looked at the entrance exams of 81 medical schools. Medical schools 'rigged women's results' 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Or how despite an extremely high score on my entrance exam to Saint Ignatius high school, I had been “overlooked” for the honours programme until my mother had intervened with an admissions officer. ‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Daniel Wang, a senior from Beijing, said his parents suggested he study in the United States to avoid China’s competitive college entrance exam. Faculty fret about cheating and low English skills as UC Santa Barbara enrolls more students from China 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Statistics from recent entrance exams at Juntendo highlight the obstacles placed in the way of female candidates. Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “We will conduct fair entrance exams and never allow a repeat of this inappropriate practice,” said Hayashi, who became the school’s first female president in September. Tokyo medical school offers places to women after sexism scandal 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z "We will conduct fair entrance exams and never let the inappropriate practice be repeated," she said. Japan med school to admit dozens of unfairly rejected women 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In a world where truth has become slippery and every fact seems to have an alternative, the questions on these college entrance exams have right answers and wrong answers. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z An internal inquiry into one curious case — how did a government official’s son gain admission despite doing poorly on the entrance exam? — had exposed a pattern of fraud and discrimination. Why Does Japan Make It So Hard for Working Women to Succeed? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And some advocates point to that when they encourage colleges to eliminate their entrance exam requirement. Perspective | What matters more? Grades or standardized test scores? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Ma grew up poor, twice failed his university entrance exams, was rejected for a job at KFC and still became one of the richest men in China. Chinese billionaire Jack Ma steps down at Alibaba, announces successor 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z She says the district can’t wait until 10th grade to get students ready for the college entrance exam, which is taken in 11th grade. Superintendent holds town hall-style meeting with students 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Most of the victims were studying for college entrance exams when the bomb went off. At least 20 people killed in separate bombings at Kabul wrestling club 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In many subjects, students have to earn top grades, get a teacher’s recommendation or pass an entrance exam to get into an AT course. Perspective | A high school ditched AP for its own advanced classes. Why aren’t they available to all of its students? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Released from service in 1946, he took the entrance exam to Cooper Union, the city’s full-tuition-scholarship school of art and architecture, and got in easily. Alex Katz’s Life in Art 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Most of them were students studying for university entrance exams. IS claims Kabul's latest deadly attacks 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Many of those killed are believed to be teenagers who were getting extra tuition as they prepared for university entrance exams. Kabul bomber kills 25 in tuition centre 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Tokyo Medical University’s entrance exam was notoriously tough, with women far less likely to pass than men. 'Betrayed': victims of Tokyo medical school scandal speak out 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “I’m looking forward to next year’s entrance exam results,” she says. Japanese medical university admits to discriminating against female applicants 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Tokyo Medical University manipulated all entrance exam results starting in 2006 or even earlier, according to findings released by lawyers involved in the investigation, confirming recent reports in Japanese media. Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Dr. Tsuda’s association a year ago posted a column online asking whether some form of “gate control” was responsible for the persistently low number of women who passed medical-school entrance exams in Japan. Medical School’s Exam-Rigging Against Women Prompts Furor in Japan 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z I did the entrance exam and went through two rounds of interviews. Five determined North Koreans who are seizing the day in the South 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “I want them to return the money I spent on the entrance exam,” she said. 'Betrayed': victims of Tokyo medical school scandal speak out 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “Discriminating against female students in entrance exams is absolutely unacceptable,” Mr. Hayashi told reporters on Thursday. Japanese Medical School Accused of Rigging Admissions to Keep Women Out 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z She said that, as a young man, Mehra had passed the tough entrance exam to join the civil service – a high-status job in India. ‘Our lives should be lived in the sun’: the couple fighting to legalise gay sex in India 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Other proposals including creating new programs to reimburse veterans for college entrance exam preparation and to let them assign any unused tuition benefits to their children. Putnam to announce veteran policy proposals 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I was also preparing for my college entrance exam, and in 2014, I started studying social work at university. Five determined North Koreans who are seizing the day in the South 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The primary barrier for many students is the MCAT, the entrance exam used to apply for medical schools. University graduates high numbers of black pre-med students 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “When I was in secondary school, my teacher told us that the college entrance exam is the last fair exam in your life, because it doesn’t look at your face,” she said. ‘Hold in your belly . . . legs together’: Chinese college teaches female students to be ‘perfect’ 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z A US university will begin accepting the Chinese university entrance exam known as the Gaokao in an effort to attract more Chinese students. US university to accept Chinese test scores 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “My daughter is preparing for university entrance exams that will be held in two weeks,” he said. Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The progressive Democrat wanted to eliminate the entrance exam for the city’s eight elite public high schools to ensure that more black and Hispanic students were admitted. The Attack on Educational Excellence 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Admissions to New York’s academically elite schools is based solely on an entrance exam. Opinion | New York’s mayor wants to demolish a school system that lifts kids out of poverty 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The rigorous assessment, the gaokao, is the nation’s college entrance exam administered in June over two days. University unveils new program to attract Chinese students 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In March, Jahantab Ahmadi, 25, an Afghan mother of three, made headlines after a photo showed her nursing her baby while taking a university entrance exam. ‘Afghanistan’s Malala’: College student shot by Taliban in 2016 graduates with honors 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Ministry of Basic Education report recommended that history lessons be compulsory up until university entrance exams from 2023 onward. Seminude School Performance Sparks Debate About Tradition in South Africa 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is an elite magnet school in Northern Virginia that also uses an entrance exam. The Attack on Educational Excellence 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Candidates with high scores in undergraduate mathematics and physics courses or entrance exams pass through the door easily, including some students from minority groups. Making physics more inclusive 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z During a recent biology class at the school, there was plenty of emphasis on the core material but also basic explanations of things like why university entrance exams were important at all. The school teaching North Korean refugees how to live in the South 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In 1978, Mr. He won a coveted place in higher education, after Deng Xiaoping, the reformist party leader, revived competitive entrance exams. Chinese Legal Maverick, Facing Political Gales, Bides His Time 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The platform’s applicants make online accounts, and information submitted including high school grades and entrance exam scores are accepted by every school. Mississippi State University to start accepting Common App 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Separately, prosecutors also ordered the arrest of 21 people suspected of leaking police academy entrance exam questions in 2012 to fellow Gulen followers. Turkish prosecutors seek arrest of 300 military personnel 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The Indianapolis Star reports a bill approved by the General Assembly delays until spring 2022 a switch to testing high school juniors with a national college entrance exam, such as the SAT or ACT. Replacement of high school ISTEP exam delayed another year 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The majority of families who hire tutors in Britain are middle-class parents, with students often receiving additional lessons in the evening or at the weekend to help with schoolwork or grammar school entrance exams. 'Some families are too shady to work with': meet the tutors of the ultra-rich 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And though Minnesota regularly has among the highest ACT college entrance exam scores among the states, only 30 percent of students taking the exam here meet all of the ACT’s benchmarks for college readiness. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Melania lied on her entrance exam when she told investigators that she was a college graduate after one semester of Slovakian art school. Did Melania Trump Merit an ‘Einstein Visa’? Probably, Immigration Lawyers Say 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Neida, who wants to be a gynecological nurse, frets about how she will fare on a critical college entrance exam in February. ‘Why can’t I have my life back?’: In Puerto Rico, living and learning in the dark 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z After his friend attempts to cheat the entrance exam, they’re both prohibited from taking the test. Peter Tieryas on bringing ‘more realism to the mecha genre’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Before he could sign up, however, one of his teachers asked him to take a college entrance exam, and gave him money for the test fee. Retired Air Force fighter pilot finds solace on slopes 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In the same year, more than 1.5 million people applied for 1,500 jobs with a state-owned bank, and more than 9 million took entrance exams for fewer than 100,000 jobs on the railways. The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Forty years ago China reinstated its all-important college entrance exam after a gap of more than a decade when the country was plunged into the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. In 1977 I took an exam that changed China 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Upward Bound will provide tutoring and preparation for college entrance exams to 60 students each year for five years. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z And in 2007, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the department after a group of black firefighters said that entrance exams used then were biased against members of minority groups. Black Employees Accuse Fire Department of Discrimination 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This included failing his entrance exams, although Hoover was “waved through to admission on condition that he showed effort and improvement.” Hoover as the father of New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He passed the entrance exam on his third try, said his childhood friend, U Hla Oo, a writer who lives in Australia. Myanmar General’s Purge of Rohingya Lifts His Popular Support 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He called a meeting in August 1977 to discuss the possibility of restoring college entrance exams. In 1977 I took an exam that changed China 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Within a few weeks of being cut, he was taking the entrance exam for graduate business school. One Game to Remember. Just One. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z With fewer prospects for rewarding careers, the number of people taking its entrance exam is on track to drop by 50 percent this year, according to the Foreign Service Association. Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Stephenson also said that fewer Foreign Service officers are being recruited, and far fewer are taking the entrance exam, although State Department officials attribute this to an improving economy rather than a lack of interest. State Department’s plan for staff cuts causing new worry in Congress 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z There he sat the entrance exam for Cambridge. How Trump walked into Putin’s web 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z As many as 1,000 students apply to the school each year through an entrance exam, and only 230 are admitted. Mourners in Argentine city grieve ‘huge loss’ of five classmates in New York terrorist attack 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z For several years, the Prairie State exam given to high school juniors included another college entrance exam, the ACT, but the ACT alone wasn’t used to determine whether students meet Illinois standards. New testing benchmarks to rely only on SAT exam in Illinois 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Those who want them to cram for the national entrance exam for universities in China, or gaokao, often choose to move them back into conventional schools for that period of study. China’s yuppies want schools to be more laid-back 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Program participants must also attend Saturday sessions throughout the year and a six-week summer academy, where they will receive extra support in math and English language arts and preparation for college entrance exams. Southeast D.C. students get $10 million boost for college from Gates Foundation 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z After hours, their schedules are packed with music and English lessons and sessions at cram schools, which prepare them for notoriously competitive university entrance exams. One in three Chinese children faces an education apocalypse. An ambitious experiment hopes to save them 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Players –and currently it is only male athletes – are then sent a study book to prep for their entrance exams, and a form to help gauge what kind of colleges they’d be interested in. The anti-Beckhams: the UK footballers choosing to start their careers in the US 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of Iowa students who graduated in 2017 took the college entrance exam, compared with 60 percent nationally. Iowa’s 2017 ACT scores dropped to 21.9 from 22.1 in 2016 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Academic experts established a new infrastructure of entrance exams, credit hours, grades, bell curves, class rankings, school rankings and accreditation agencies for tabulating, assessing and certifying expertise in each field. Why Picking a Major Is a Bad Idea for College Kids 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z More than half of first-year students at Harvard failed an entrance exam in writing — in 1874. A Wakeup Call on Writing Instruction (Now, What’s an Adverb?) 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He failed the Chinese university entrance exam several times before being accepted by the worst school in Hangzhou, and he was rejected from a dozen jobs – even selling chicken at KFC. Can Jack Ma, Asia’s richest man, create 1m jobs in the US? 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z He managed to take his law school entrance exam from Da Nang, Vietnam, in the middle of the war. A general and a lawyer who died just after his last trial 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Consider the ACT and the SAT, the college entrance exams required for admission to most selective colleges in the United States. How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Known for being a high achiever, Warmbier graduated as the salutatorian of Wyoming High School and is rumored to have received near-perfect scores in his college entrance exam. What to Know About Otto Warmbier, the U.S. Student Freed by North Korea 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z After all, Hunko took the law school entrance exam on a whim, after a night of drinking tequila and playing dice, only to score in the top 9 percent in the country. A Washington lawyer for the toughest case 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Many of them are private, and do not set an entrance exam. Latin America’s campus revolution 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It was reported last year that the country banned access to social media sites after university entrance exams were leaked online. Ethiopia blocks mobile internet - BBC News 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In July 2016, the government blocked a significant amount of traffic after university entrance exams were posted online; another block followed in August of that year. Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z When Warmbier was a senior, it was rumored among his classmates that he had received a perfect or near-perfect score on the ACT, the college entrance exam. What to Know About Otto Warmbier, the U.S. Student Freed by North Korea 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z She took a college entrance exam and won a four-year college scholarship, but she didn’t want to leave her infant son. Persistent Montana State student gets her math degree at 65 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z They also founded banks, nonprofit organizations, publishing houses, universities, newspapers, television stations and a profitable chain of tutoring centers that prepare students for the college entrance exam. Inside Turkey’s Purge 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The requirements outline three paths to earn a diploma: through college entrance exams, or through points systems for end-of-course exams and career-readiness. State school board to discuss Ohio graduation requirements 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z After several misdemeanors and a felony heroin possession charge, he got his life back on track, and he is now studying for the law school entrance exam. Underground labs in China are devising potent new opiates faster than authorities can respond 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In Cassia County, it means backpacks, school supplies, senior project supplies, class fees and college entrance exams. School districts learn to see homeless students differently 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The senior standout missed a week with college entrance exams and will miss another week while visiting Ohio State University. Weighing In: Blanchet's Zachariah Gomez overcame burnout and now he's making right moves 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z At the end of last year a team of researchers abandoned an attempt to develop a robot intelligent enough to pass the entrance exam for the prestigious Tokyo University. Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In 1978, he enrolled in the prestigious Peking University, among the first group of students who passed the first higher education entrance exams held after the Cultural Revolution. China’s ‘Godfather of Real Estate’ Pitches Reverse Mortgages to Skeptical Elders 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z When the new SAT was given for the first time in March, the owner of the test took unprecedented steps to stop “bad actors” from collecting and circulating material from the all-important college entrance exam. Exclusive: Chinese education giant helps its students game the SAT 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Sauder had one of the highest scores on the school’s entrance exam. Haunted by parents’ murder-suicide, he OD’d at 19 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Selection for places will be through talent spotting and an entrance exam. UK wartime codebreaking center becomes cyber education college 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z At the moment only 20% of the institution's applicants are female, and a smaller number are accepted after entrance exams. Tokyo university subsidises rent for female students - BBC News 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s based on college entrance exam scores and grade point average. Is Idaho’s college initiative working? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Starting with her law school entrance exam, where she was heckled by male students who accused her of taking a man’s place, Clinton has had to overcome hurdles only faced by women. Editorials from around New England 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z He wrote a three-page essay and sat for the entrance exam. Life Beyond Bars: One Man’s Journey From Prison to College 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Non-Chinese applicants are required to show proof of proficiency in Mandarin or sit for a Chinese entrance exam. Avoid 3 Common Mistakes U.S. Applicants to Global Universities Make 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z In 2007, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the department after the Vulcan Society, a group of black firefighters, said that entrance exams were biased against members of minority groups. 10 Black Employees at New York Fire Dept. Cite Bias 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Pathak, a bank manager, said he installed air-conditioning so his children, who are studying for medical school entrance exams, could manage late-night study sessions without nodding off or being devoured by disease-carrying mosquitoes. Emerging Climate Accord Could Push A/C Out of Sweltering India’s Reach 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Once there, Yuan Qi enrolled in a better middle school and, thanks to a good performance in the zhongkao – the entrance exam for high school – got into Beijing 101 at the age of 16. Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam? | Alec Ash 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “We controlled the hiring of the police, and the entrance exams, and we didn’t let anyone in who wasn’t a Gülenist,” he said. Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “They were reportedly forced to sit in separate rooms during university entrance exams, and were limited in their choice of careers.” A record number of U.S. billionaires are immigrants 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Average scores on the most widely used business-school entrance exams are going up, but that doesn’t mean students are getting any smarter. Test Redos Give GMAT Scores a Lift 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But should you retake the same one, or consider changing course and registering for the other college entrance exam instead? Choose Between Retaking the ACT, SAT or Changing Exams 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z For the first time since a massive security breach exposed about 400 unpublished questions meant for upcoming SAT tests, the College Board will administer the important college entrance exam this weekend. College Board says upcoming SATs won't contain questions exposed in breach 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As Gülen preached in favor of business, his followers had set up a network of test-preparation centers, which readied young people to take entrance exams for college, military academies, and the civil service. Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z But it would not be “regardless of their background”: most would be from well-off families and if many schools opted for entrance exams, poor children would be harmed. A new syllabus 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Loredo didn’t apply for Mexico’s public universities because she couldn’t pass the entrance exams, which require written Spanish and a knowledge of Mexican history. Nearly half a million U.S. citizens are enrolled in Mexican schools. Many of them are struggling. 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z With the redesign of the SAT, there is less separation between the two major college entrance exams, but there are still some differences. Choose Between Retaking the ACT, SAT or Changing Exams 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Before their teenage years, children study long hours for entrance exams, often with high-priced private tutors. China's demand for pricey international schools 'insatiable' 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z At a later date, the volunteers returned and spent 20 minutes tackling selections from college and graduate-school entrance exams. The Hunger in Our Heads 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Also being released are SAT college entrance exam scores. Michigan test scores rise, decline in subject-grade areas 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z He failed his Chinese college entrance exam three times. Alibaba Stock: Rising Star or Fragile as China? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Though public colleges are free, entrance exams are tough; wealthy students who can afford expensive private education secure most slots. Five myths about Brazil 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Many parents also pay for tutoring to help their children pass the grammar’s entrance exam, in the hope of moving the financial burden of secondary education onto the state. Grammatical error 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z A few blocks from downtown, Patricia Sanchez Meza recounted how her son was eager to attend university to study engineering, but couldn’t afford the entrance exams. Protesters say a massacre took place in this Mexican town. Now it’s become a rallying cry against the government 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Shortly after David Coleman took over as CEO in 2012, the College Board began redesigning its signature product, the SAT college entrance exam. Special Report: 'Massive' breach exposes hundreds of new SAT questions 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In addition to badminton training, the school also offers theater workshops, English lessons, a computer room and free classes to help pass the entrance exam for Brazil’s federal universities. This badminton academy in a favela will give you hope for the Rio Olympics 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Much like the PSAT, the PreACT offers a realistic glimpse of the ACT college entrance exam, which plays a critical role in college admissions and scholarship eligibility. 4 Ways Students Can Prepare for a Valuable PreACT Experience 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The board is touting the decision as a cutback on standardized testing while providing equitable access to a college entrance exam required for admissions applications. Illinois replacing PARCC test for high school students 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z They will be unavailable for several days while university entrance exams are taken, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education said. Ethiopia blocks Facebook and other social media for exams - BBC News 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The other entrance exam - the SAT - was cancelled in South Korea in 2013 because some of the questions were leaked. US college entrance test halted in South Korea and Hong Kong - BBC News 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z This week's university entrance exam, whose origins date back to imperial China, determines which university students will attend and what major they're able to select - and as a result, much of their future. China uses SWAT teams to crack down on college exam cheats 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z There are currently more than 200 highly ranked top-tier schools that de-emphasize entrance exams. Students Who Benefit From Test-Optional, Test-Flexible Admissions 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z By contrast, Hodara said there was only a "trivial" association between college entrance exam scores, or the placement exam scores, and students' college course grades. Study: Colleges Put Students Into Remedial Classes Who Don't Need Them 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In May, university entrance exams were cancelled after pictures of the test circulated on social media. Ethiopia blocks Facebook and other social media for exams - BBC News 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z It is entrance exams time in India, when millions of students try their luck to get onto much sought-after engineering or medical degree courses. Is India driving its students to suicide? - BBC News 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Kit Kat’s name echoes the Japanese phrase “kitto katsu,” or “surely win” and is often sent as a gift to students before college entrance exams. Japan Has a Kit Kat for Every Taste, and Then Some 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Only 8% of those who took the test passed - the same success level as for the entrance exam for the elite Science-Po political science school in Paris. How the French learned to love their police - BBC News 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z To allow universities to become more selective, the government reintroduced entrance exams. Academic arguments 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z By 2014 his profile was so high, he held a press conference to announce his university entrance exam results. Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong forms political party - BBC News 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Most public school students in China focus their academic career on passing a single test, the national college entrance exam, which is taken in their senior year. At private schools, a surge of Chinese students 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z In a recent paper looking only at rich countries, where graft is less common, Anders Sundell of the University of Gothenburg finds no connection between entrance exams and levels of corruption. Mandarin lessons 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews from some of the students who took it early this week. Newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam gets good reviews 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Yeot, a traditional sticky food, is eaten before important exams, especially university entrance exams. Top 10 exam rituals from stressed students across Asia - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z We hired 74 new firefighters and emergency medical technicians and held the training academy’s first entrance exam since 2007 . A changing D.C. Fire and EMS Department will make the city safer 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z For them, living in the U.S. is a chance to learn a new language and culture and to escape China's ultra-competitive college entrance exams. Chinese teens to be sentenced in kidnapping and assault of fellow 'parachute kid' 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z He failed his university entrance exam but it was in a job as a clerk that he found time to develop his ideas. Albert Einstein: the man who predicted gravitational waves - BBC News 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z After a shared incident at the interview site, they are transported separately to Brakebills University, where they take an entrance exam for a magician's graduate school. 'The Magicians' casts a potent spell 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The administration also announced last week that it was scrapping the Smarter Balanced test for high school juniors in favor of the SAT college entrance exam. Lawmakers reject veto override vote on school test bill 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z He failed the entrance exam three times, an experience that still haunts him. Nostalgia and Surrealism Infuse Works of Chinese Animation Artist 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Lantian Xiang, the only student of two white-collar workers from the Hunan province, said he found the pressure of taking the Chinese college entrance exam stifling. More Chinese students seeking US community college degrees 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z This created a cutthroat competition for college entrance exams and drove up the cost of education, including the rising use of private tutors and so-called cram schools. Korean County Achieves Its Goal: Less Birth Control, More Babies 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Some Tibetan parents worry that their native language and culture are dying but nevertheless tell their children to prioritize Chinese studies, in part because the national university entrance exam is administered only in Chinese. Tibetan Fights to Salvage His Fading Culture in China 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z But Mr. Bartlem said she brought her business school entrance exam study guides with her to Italy. For Carly Fiorina, Peripatetic Childhood Helped Build Worldview 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Advertisement “The brutal college entrance exam and the frenetic beliefs of my father’s generation: How similar are they?” Nostalgia and Surrealism Infuse Works of Chinese Animation Artist 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z He took the college entrance exam and earned a business degree. It’s never too late: Veteran, 80, earns high school diploma 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Final year high school students in South Korea are sitting annual entrance exams for universities and colleges. South Korea's obsession with exam success - BBC News 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Stolovitzky likens this to preparing for a university entrance exam by memorizing a big stack of difficult vocabulary flashcards. Collaborations: Mining the motherlodes : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z In an interview with Charlie Rose, the businessman revealed that he failed a college entrance exam three times. How Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Handled Rejection and Became China’s Richest Man 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In 2014 it was announced that China would allow Braille or electronic university entrance exams. Human rights: What is China accused of? - BBC News 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “Reach for the SKY” follows three students and a teacher working for a test-prep company before and after South Korea’s college entrance exam. Film portrays costs of South Korean craze for top schools 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z "Reach for the SKY" follows three students and a teacher working for a test-prep company before and after South Korea's college entrance exam. Documentary depicts social cost of South Korean craze for being admitted to top universities 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Needing money, he also joined the Massachusetts National Guard in the late 1940s, and eventually he was persuaded to take the entrance exam for the U.S. John R. Galvin, NATO commander at the close of the Cold War, dies at 86 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z High school students in grades nine through 11 will continue to take separate assessments produced by ACT, the company that produces the well-known college entrance exam. State announces replacement for Badger Exam 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The Princeton Review, a Washington D.C., company that helps students prepare for standardized tests and college entrance exams, remains bullish on China. As growth slows, China's shifting economy mints some US corporate winners, others losers 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z If you are a district trying to maintain a good school system, that’s graduation rates, student grades and classroom or district results for other tests, like weekly math quizzes or entrance exams. Schools face incomplete data after Common Core test troubles 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The College Board said today that scores on the SAT college entrance exam fell again in the latest period, continuing a decline since 2010. Your Thursday Briefing 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The Japanese term for the entrance exam race includes the word "war" - it is a fierce battle for many Japanese children. Tackling the deadliest day for Japanese teenagers - BBC News 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Dozens of kids were bused in to take an entrance exam, and only Kashua and one older boy passed. Israel’s Favorite Palestinian Calls It Quits 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Frank E. Petersen Jr., who became the first black Marine Corps pilot and general officer, took the Navy’s entrance exam in 1950. Frank Petersen Jr., first black Marine Corps pilot and general, dies at 83 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Many pin the blame on China's high-pressure college entrance exam system. 3 days of nerves, tears and joy: U.S. expats lead debate nerds in China 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Education Secretary Arne Duncan, come after decades during which public college tuition bills grew faster than inflation, according to data from the board, which administers the SAT entrance exam. Eying 2016, Republicans hail 'historic' Washington state tuition cuts 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The College Board, a nonprofit group that oversees the SAT college entrance exam, encourages students to apply to five to eight colleges. Report: Wichita State spends nearly $2M to boost enrollment 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Millions of students attend the schools to prepare for entrance exams. Turkish court overturns order to close 'Gulen schools' - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Under Deng, the college entrance exam was resumed and intellectuals were reclassified into the politically correct “working class.” The Rising Anti-Intellectualism In China: Part I 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Practicing what he preaches, he proposes abolishing university entrance exams. So what if Greece leaves the European Union? 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It appears that law school performance might be better predicted by a twelve-item measure of hope than completion of a standardized entrance exam! How Hope Can Improve Your Life, Backed By Research 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Because of a printing error, sections of the June 6 SAT college entrance exam will not be graded but students will still receive scores for the important standardized test, officials said. Parts of June 6 SAT will not be graded because of a printing error 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Fifteen Chinese nationals have been charged with developing a fraud scheme in which they paid impostors to take entrance exams, including the SAT, and gained acceptance to elite American colleges and universities, the U.S. U.S. charges 15 Chinese nationals in college exam fraud scheme 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The US Department of Justice has charged 15 Chinese nationals with developing a scheme to have imposters take university entrance exams. Chinese nationals accused of taking SATs for others - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Growing up in Beijing, the son of two academicians, he attended Peking University, China’s top institution, where he studied computer science and bested many brilliant students taking the entrance exams. A Tech Tiger In Utah 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z For many of the second-year high school students, the trip marked a last bit of freedom before nearly two years of grueling preparation for college entrance exams. Survivors of South Korean ferry tragedy struggle with guilt 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z |
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