He failed his college entrance exam twice before enrolling in a local teachers college.
As schools continue to empty, grammar schools are admitting children who failed the entrance exam.
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Only about one in eight of those who take its entrance exam is admitted.
Of 9, 600 police officers who took the entrance exam in July, only 205 passed the written test.
After three hard years, he took the entrance exam last January and failed.
In Rio de Janeiro's state universities, 20% of places are set aside for black students who pass the entrance exam.
Mr Evans was keen to emphasise that Colyton, whilst being a selective school, does not have the most challenging entrance exam.
The team created an entrance exam that forced them to use their smartphones interacting with posters to identify and treat medical conditions.
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The University of Michigan used to give applicants more points for being black than for getting a perfect score on the entrance exam.
Even though adjusting to life in South Korea was not easy, I made a plan and started studying for the university entrance exam.
Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.
However, consider what already happens at popular comprehensives, and would be likely to happen if a grammar school had to drop its entrance exam.
Taking the GMAT entrance exam was a wake-up call that I was about to embark on an experience that would require a lot of maths.
He wants to raise the pass mark on the police entrance exam, introduce annual testing and a requirement that all new recruits have three A-levels.
The school has even introduced an entrance exam to filter them.
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In a country awash with fake diplomas and graduation certificates, the nationally administered university entrance exam, for all its faults, is one institution that is at least respected.
Litzman wrote that after receiving a 97.6% on his entrance exam last year, he "inquired about keeping my naturally short beard intact" and filled out a religious accommodation form.
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He said medical schools are turning away hundreds upon hundreds of candidates "who meet all the standards, who are scoring in the 90th percentile" on the medical-school entrance exam.
To eliminate admissions bias the fact that venture firms funded mostly 20-something white male Ivy League grads annoyed Ressi the Institute developed an entrance exam in partnership with a psychology professor.
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In 2008, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which runs the GMAT entrance exam required by many business schools, tracked roughly 245, 000 people taking the test, the busiest season ever.
Mr Liu says the long-term plan is to change the university entrance procedures to place more emphasis on students' performance at school rather than simply on the national entrance exam.
Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.
But in return Marin delivered results above the national average: 96.8% of its seniors graduated, and 60.4% of them took the SAT college entrance exam and scored a mean 1133 (out of 1600).
Alice Kaplan, a close student of French intellectual life, quotes an anti-Nazi teacher who, when coaching pupils for the Ecole's entrance exam, wondered if they would put their intelligence and learning to misuse.
Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.
Most still come from better-off families, partly because these can better afford the fees, partly because pupils from private schools outclass those from public ones in the national entrance exam that almost all universities use.
"I was really tired last year and fully resigned to go off to the Balkans to die, " said one 13-year-old Beijinger after she passed the entrance exam for a middle school attached to the renowned People's University.
These living fossils are wildly popular (last autumn one Surrey grammar school had to call the police for crowd control when 1, 500 children turned up to sit its entrance exam for 126 places), but their freedom is being eroded.
The SAT data mirror scores from the ACT college-entrance exam which showed about 75% of students failed to meet college-readiness standards and served to increase the hand-wringing over whether U.S. high-school students are prepared to attend college and compete in a global economy.
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