Posts Tagged Entrance Exam
Standardized tests not always best indicator of success
Posted by Jerry in Admissions on September 2nd, 2010
By Donald Heller, Director of Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education
Penn State Live
August 23, 2010
How much time and money have you and your teenager put into preparing to take a college entrance exam? If you are like most families sending a student to college the expense has been substantial. After that kind of effort to ensure a good score you will not care for comments made by Dr. Heller or graduate students in professional programs about what all these standardized exams actually have to offer. Find out more by following this link. http://live.psu.edu/story/47967.
Preparation For College Admission Starts Earlier Than You Think
Posted by Jerry in Studnet Performance on June 2nd, 2010
Blogannath
May 14, 2010
I get questions from more than half the families I counsel about preparing for college entrance exams. This blog site may just point the way to the answer for most concerned parents. I have not tried out the available practice exams, and for that matter I am not too excited about taxing my brain like that. So, I would welcome comments from anyone looking for practice exams online to comment on what they find. Follow the link below to the blog site.
http://blogannath.blogspot.com/2010/05/preparation-for-college-admission.html
ACT prognosis: 23% could earn C, at best, in first-year college courses
Posted by Jerry in Studnet Performance on August 28th, 2009
USA Today (Mary Beth Marklein)
You should always be careful with what is inferred by statistical data. After all, we are trying to predict how a whole population will behave by testing a relatively small number of its individuals. But if you already know that only half the students that start a college education will complete a bachelors degree then these numbers appear to be accurate. So how do we improve these numbers? Follow the link to find out more. http://tinyurl.com/nlpa4x
The Other Side of ‘Test Optional’
Posted by Jerry in Admissions on July 23rd, 2009
The New York Times (Lynn O’Shaughnessy)
Did you breathe a sigh of relief when you found that several schools on your list did not require SAT/ACT scores? Every wondered why many schools have made the submission of these scores optional? There are altruistic reasons as well as self-serving reasons for the practice. http://tinyurl.com/kpfz4j