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The number of engineers graduating annually from U.S. universities trails the numbers of like graduates in India and China, a worrying statistic that presents the greatest single threat to American prosperity, says Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, co-author of a Competitiveness Index produced by the national Council on Competitiveness.
While the U.S. still turns out highly educated graduates, other countries are doing a better job of modifying their educational systems to ensure that grads possess the skills they will need to meet the needs of shifting global economies, Porter says in a recent internetnews.com article.
According to UCLAs Higher Education Research Institute, the number of incoming U.S. college freshmen intending to major in computer science dropped by 70 percent between 2000 and 2005. Christine Bullen of the Stevens School of Technology Management says that pessimism after the dot-com bust and the inaccurate perception that the bulk of U.S. IT jobs are being shipped overseas communicated to young people that there were no career opportunities in IT.
More : itbusinessedge.com
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The TOEFL results comprise four different scores : a total score (0-300),
a separate score for Listening section (0-30),
a separate score for Structure/Writing section (0-30) and
a separate score for Reading section (0-30).
The total score is reported on a scale from 0 to 300.
Note that your Essay score will individually be rated (0-6). However the essay score is incorporated into the Structure/Writing scaled score with the rating of essay constituting approximately one half of the Structure/Writing scaled score. You get to know your Listening and Reading section scores immediately after taking the test. You will also see your Structure/Writing scores as
The Internet-based TOEFL Test
The TOEFL Internet-based test (TOEFL iBT) tests all four language skills that are important for effective communication: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The test helps students demonstrate that they have the English skills needed for success. TOEFL iBT also emphasizes integrated skills and provides better information to institutions about students’ ability to communicate in an academic setting and their readiness for academic coursework.
The Computer-based TOEFL Test
The computer-based TOEFL test measures English language proficiency in the following areas:
Listening
Structure
Reading
Writing.
The Paper-based TOEFL Test
The paper-based TOEFL test measures
Listening Comprehension
Structure and Written Expression
Reading Comprehension.
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Universities and other institutions that use TOEFL® scores have begun to set their TOEFL iBT score recommendations or requirements. These initial score standards will be reviewed by the institutions after the first year of testing.
The TOEFL iBT score scale is:
Test Section Score Range
Listening 0 to 30
Reading 0 to 30
Speaking 0 to 30
Writing 0 to 30
Total Score 0 to 120
TOEFL iBT provides more information about the applicant’s abilities to communicate in an academic English language environment. To make best use of the score information, some institutions plan to set section or skill score requirements either by themselves or
Computer-based Test
How the Test Is Scored
In the Listening and Structure sections, more credit is given for correctly answering a hard question than for correctly answering an easy question. Therefore, your score on these portions of the test depends not only on how many questions you answer correctly but also on which ones you answer correctly.
Your score from the Structure section is combined with your written essay rating to form a Structure/Writing scaled score. Each part accounts for 50% of your Structure/Writing score. The Writing score also is shown separately under the heading, “essay rating.”
Because the content and format of the
Reading Comprehension TIPS
There are three major question types on the Reading Comprehension section.
1. Specific questions,
2. Vocabulary in context and reference questions,and
3. General questions.
Reading Comprehension TIP 1
Specific questions: These questions ask for a specific piece of information found in the passage. To answer them, go to the passage to find it. “Lead words” tell you what to look for in the passage. It is often a noun or a noun phrase.
Reading Comprehension TIP 2
Vocabulary in context and reference questions:
Vocabulary in context questions ask you for the meaning of a specific word in the passage.
Reference questions ask you what a specific pronoun
Marathi poetry since 1950, has been in several schools, groups and movements influenced by writers' ethical, social and cultural environments convictions. Six poets of three generations of literature are as representatives of their groups. It is P.S. Rege, Mangesh Padgaonkar, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, Narayan Surve and Rajani Parulekar.
During the last three or four decades, the world of Marathi poetry was dispersed by the creation of several new groups of writers, schools of writing, literary and social movements. Each of these groups, schools, movements, or even an unprecedented combination of interest based on the writers' ...
Face It They are influenced by advertising. Somewhere in your head dictates a certain strength, buy, where to buy it themselves and live your life. Are you part of this force? Given that all this must be boring definition, let's try.
Advertising is the link between the seller (the product manufacturer - mobile networks to jam pineapple) and the buyer. These funds come with men of clever and intelligent visual lines to sell a product. People working in advertising and research, represent the agency customer, has chosen the right medium for communicating and a budget. The advertising for almost all the
Higher Education in US: Many Schools Accept the IELTS
A few weeks ago, we talked about the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL. A listener in Cambodia named Thida asks if American colleges and universities also accept the IELTS exam. IELTS is the International English Language Testing System. It was developed by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
Cambridge ESOL says the test measures true-to-life ability to communicate in English for education, immigration or employment. The IELTS tests listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. It uses a mixture of accents and spellings, including British English
In today's world of cut-throat competition, scholarly knowledge alone is not enough to reduce that dream occupation. Latent potential must be polished by skills smart.
Sectors that are refining resume-writing skills, communication skills, which come into play, while the interviews and group discussions, reading habits and computer skills. While most higher education institutions hold regular workshops and classes, students learn the skills, the process itself was finally pushed.
Mr. Nishit Kumar, a professional advertising, ridicule, interviews for students, "A resume must be clearly a student of the" mission statement. Should be crisp and should be a little sense without rings hollow .
FPT University starts first school term
On the morning of January 13, FPT University held its inauguration ceremony in Hanoi. 299 students divided into 10 classes are enrolled in the first term.
The training programme for the first term is software technology in Japanese and English.
These students will spend the first 6 weeks exploring learning methods, career directions, as well as familiarising themselves with certain soft skills like reading materials, writing reports, discussion, and ethic development.
More : english.vietnamnet.vn
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