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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
finishing high school. If there is room for improvement, Koh said, students can practice and take it again six months later.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Taylor reminded students that most schools will consider a “super score” which is the best score from each test category.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
“So there is no doubt that students do better if they take more than one test.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
So if they're in a position to be able to take more than one test, we would always recommend that and give yourself the time to do some additional learning between tests so you kn…
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Arkar Chen of Myanmar took the SAT in 2016, one year after he finished high school.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
He studied for the test but was still surprised at how difficult the reading part was.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
“I'll say that 80 percent of the time, I have no idea what it's asking, but the thing with SAT is that when you practice enough, you kind of see a pattern and you kind of know wha…
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test maker are looking for.” In addition, Chen said students need to solve math problems quickly because each question has a limited time.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
“There’s no way you could do well without a lot of practice,” he said.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Chen said the concept of “critical thinking” was the biggest difference between American tests such as the SAT and the tests he saw growing up in Myanmar.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
“The SAT,” he said, “tests a lot on your critical thinking skills, so I think that’s why it can feel hard.”
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
“More and more,” Taylor said, “higher ed is worried about graduation not just about admission.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
So we need to give not only the higher education institution as much data as we can about the student.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
We also need to give the student as much data as we can about themselves.”
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Koh observes that standardized tests favor a well-rounded student.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
So students who spend a lot of time studying math and engineering would be smart to spend time on reading and discussing books in English before taking the test.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
The parents of many international students are surprised to learn, as Koh said, “Asian STEM-focused students are penalized the heaviest by American admissions
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officers, for being very strong in math but weak on reading.” I’m Gena Bennett.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
Today is Juneteenth in the United States. The holiday is over 150 years old but it is still unknown to many people.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
It marks the end of official slavery in the country and celebrates the promise of freedom.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
The word “Juneteenth” combines the month “June” with the number 19.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
It recalls June 19, 1865, the day troops from the Union side of the American Civil War arrived in the city of Galveston, Texas.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
At that time, Texas was part of the Confederate States of America, the group of Southern states fighting the Union for the right to keep slaves.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
In fact, Lincoln had declared them legally free more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863.
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What Is Juneteenth in the US?
But Texas was in the far west of the country and removed from much of the fighting.
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