The Score

mighty universities love to use test scores to value human beings, but can you really blame them they have a lot of worthless individuals to look through. It’s much easier to just categorize people by their score on an exam of which they approve. For the most part, it’s important to know what’s on the AP exam if you plan on attending a university and would like a reduction in the cost of college because knowing how the test is structured will likely increase your score. What is the AP exam…

Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) tells the story of Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), a small Viking, who overcomes the prejudices against dragons he was raised with after he wounds a Night Fury. Hiccup initially seems dead set on killing his first dragon in order to garner the attention and love he wants from his friends and most importantly his village’s chief and father, Stoick (Gerard Butler.) However, upon wounding a dragon and being confronted with the…

build on that and improve my scores throughout the semester. Coming into the class, I looked at the point breakdown from the syllabus and calculated mentally what I would need to get in each category to maintain an A, but also have an A by when the final comes so I wouldn’t have to take the final exam. Ultimately that is my goal for this course,…

school, grades always started with an “A” and depending on what you got on all of your assignments, tests, and quizzes, that “A” will either go up or it will go down. In college, you do not start out with a letter but instead, you calculate all of your scores from the very start of the semester to the very end, and whatever you have calculated will be your overall grade. High school and college are very different in terms of academics and how challenging they are, but it is not understandable…

I learned that a program can still have a lower score and be a spectacular environment for children to discover things about the world, people, and themselves. I think the most important part of the whole scale (the relationship/interaction sections) was shown brilliantly in the program I visited and…

There has been considerable debate on the use of standardized test scores in American undergraduate admission. In the recent decade, the SAT and the ACT have become an increasingly important factor in evaluating the burgeoning number of college applicants, largely because of their comprehensiveness and standardization in the education industry. According to The New York Times, an overwhelming amount of 1,666,017 students took the ACT and 1,664,479 took the SAT in 2012. These dedicated students…

The I step test scores are in from the previous year, the scores are not good. According to the national average test scores our schools scores are very low. The school has gone from being an A+ school to being a B school and has been put into a failing school status, according to State Board of Education (SBE). The principle has received a letter from SBE stating the school has 2 years to get back on track to being an A+ school. If the school does not show an improvement in 2 years funding for…

Students are taught from this that grades are very important to their lives. Test scores also rise up and students become more confident in themselves. This is a great idea for students and teachers to be awarded and motivated for their hard work. A nonprofit organization called Virginia Advanced Studies Strategies supported this project of offering “bonus money to students and teachers for good AP test scores.” (Text 1 line 23) “Checks totaling $90,800 went to students and $145,370 to…

birth. The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birth process, and the 5-minutes score tells the doctor how well the baby is doing outside the mother’s womb. The APGAR is to determine whether a newborn needs breathing or is having heart trouble, to make sure that the baby is healthy, the score has to be of 7, 8, 9, these means that the baby is in good health. Any score lower than 7is a sign that the baby need medical attention, most of the time APGAR score is caused by…

condition score of a cow can also often be linked to health and welfare issues (Gearheart, 1990) Body Condition Score Scales Lowman (1976) first adapted a 5 point scale body condition score scale (1-5) for beef cattle cow, from a previous condition score for ewes, the…