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These 3 key considerations should help you better choose between degree course and university.
What type of community service does “count” toward the US boarding school application? Read on to get some expert tips from our US admissions team!
What are some options? Is there anything you can do? Understanding the timeline and the boarding school decision process works is a starting point for navigating a waitlist and your next steps!
Why Is Experiential Learning (EL) Important? Today’s world is a dynamic and fast-changing one where employers expect future-ready employees to demonstrate soft skills such as adaptability and empathy as much as specialist knowledge. While it is paramount for students to achieve top academic attainment and undergo an all-rounded, undifferentiated experience as well as elements of fun whilst learning, the overarching consensus amongst schools and educators is that today’s premium education needs to be of close relevance to the future world, in particular, the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Writing is an essential skill in navigating the increasingly more challenging and competitive academic environment. Being able to communicate effectively is a soft skill that is useful in all disciplines and subjects. How can we quickly improve our writing skills? Here are five steps that can help you become a better writer.
Students may begin by describing their weekend, expected to use adjectives and imagery to bring past events to life. They may graduate onto writing for different audiences and purposes, a monologue to entertain or an advertisement to persuade perhaps. Both are excellent choices (that you could experience at ARCH), even if we do say so ourselves. Students will be expected to be able to draw on a plethora of literary devices and understand complex grammatical rules as they move up the levels. In order to prepare students to be lifelong learners, engagement and exercise outside the classroom is crucial, whether it be with family, friends or peers. The variety of genres from narrative to argumentative writing will also consolidate a student’s ability to articulate with the pen whether it is for a debate or composing a personal statement. Here are a few tips on improving your writing
One of the easiest ways to advance your English proficiency quickly is to bolster your lexicon. The English language has an absolute bucketload, a myriad, a multitude, a slew of words to choose from, do you see the point? Each word either with a different meaning or correct environment to be used. To that end, the time you spend improving your vocabulary is time invested in developing your reading and writing skills.
How to Ace Pre-Tests When You're Ten
What are the boarding school Pre-Tests? These tests were first introduced by Eton College almost ten years ago. Where Eton leads, other schools tend to follow. A reaction to the growing number of candidates applying for each place, they are designed to help schools screen prospective applicants one to three years in advance of their actual entrance examinations. The purpose of the tests is to understand potential, rather than just pure academic ability.
Although some schools still set paper-based pre-tests, most schools have moved their tests to computerised versions to ease the administration of setting and marking them. Most of these computerized pre-tests are designed by the Centre for Evaluating and Monitoring (CEM) at the University of Durham. GL Assessment is also popular.
As far as we are aware, the CEM and other organisations adapt their suite of tests for each school. Schools can either buy an “off-the-shelf” package or design tests that are more bespoke to their needs. All of the tests of which we are aware have a mixture of Reading, Maths (or Numerical / Quantitative Reasoning), Verbal Reasoning, Non Verbal Reasoning, Spatial Reasoning and Logic. Most of the tests offer multiple choice questions, answered by clicking a mouse rather than typing an answer.
How can you prepare?
It is important to say that preparing for pre-tests is not like preparing for other exams such as Common Entrance. There is no syllabus of content, and we would never encourage “direct preparation” for the test. The tests are, after all, designed to test for potential. The tests themselves, we believe, can also be adaptive; it’s unlikely that two students will receive the same test. As a result, Bridgepoint’s recommended programme is, at best, only a close approximation to the tests. Our tutors should prepare students to be supple and adaptable test-takers so that they can hopefully cope with whatever the tests throw at them. We place our chief emphasis on the areas that can be taught and learnt, in other words the core, foundational areas of English and Maths appropriate to the age-group.
For students who are sitting computerized pre-tests at 11+, ARCH's Online Tutoring platform offers students (aged 8-11) a mock computerized assessment covering Developed Ability, Maths, Reading and Spelling. Included in the assessment is detailed feedback of the student’s level in each area. Please note, this computerized assessment is only available in Hong Kong and the UK.
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