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...trilingual." Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual GDP on education - the fifth-highest percentage in the world - simply must do better than its current rank of 69th among 109 countries on the standardized Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has proposed exposing students to more native-speaking English instructors, increasing contacts between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction to the more practical oral...
...transfer student to a dozen American colleges.In the spring of 2008, they began the work of crafting a successful application package. Sam Bakkila ’11-’12, who worked at the shelter over the summer, helped to prepare Yelbi to take the SATs and the TOEFL, a standardized exam for students whose second language is English. Lauren M. White ’11, a volunteer at the shelter and a member of The Crimson’s business department, wrote his peer recommendations. White, Adam S. Travis ’10, and Akshata Kadagathur...
...quality of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), a test required when applying to many graduate programs, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) is in the process of making major revisions to the material and methods tested on the exam. The ETS, which also made changes to the SAT and the TOEFL last year, will redesign all three sections of the test: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. The company expects the changes to go into effect in October 2006. Overall, the revisions are an effort to try to make the test more pertinent to the type of work that graduate...
...wake of the successfulcomputerization of both the Test of English as aForeign Language (TOEFL) and the GraduateManagement Admission Test (GMAT), ETS officialsseem primed for another smooth transition...
That's actually good to know. As a TOEFL and SAT tutor to several Japanese students who hope to attend American colleges, I am learning to develop more structured lesson plans; my students look at me blankly when I ask them if they'd prefer to review analogies or sentence completions at the beginning of the session. I'm not about to start "shaming" my students who perform poorly on a practice test, but I am beginning to understand why the student gets absolutely frustrated with himself (no girls being taught here--male chauvinism in Japan is a whole other...