American college entrance examination: not "a queen for life"
2005-02-03 22:53, Yang Guangfu, 2286 words, 0/9, collection | reference
SAT (Academic Ability Test) or ACT (American College Test) is the most important college entrance examination in the United States today. Compared to SAT, the ACT is smaller, so the US college entrance examination is mainly to be SAT.
The US college entrance examination and college enrollment system have two features: Various high school results, emphasize the importance of usual learning. American students go to college is not a high score of the college entrance examination, and the usual results account for considerable significance. The expedition results of high schools must be admitted to B (good) or more by Undergraduate University and Community College.
First, I want to go to college students must get high school diploma.
There is no unified textbook in the United States, and the teaching brochure is made by the state education departments, and the textbook is self-selected by each school. Taking a school in the Los Angeles area in California as an example, students must repair English, mathematics, and science within 4 years in high school, each class is 5 credits per class, and there are 25 elective courses. Credits, a total of 220 credits can be graduated. Without a high school diploma, you can't be admitted to the university.
Second, high school students are very important at the end of each semester, it is the foundation of the US high school to rise.
The evaluation results include three aspects:
1. Time job. Refers to classroom operations and homework, its score accounts for 50% of the results of the results.
2. Project score. The project is a special task that is arranged in a certain class. Any course has different topic projects that can be selected by high school students. If there is a student's exchange rate for international currency, he will collect the dollar, Mexico, French franc, Germany's Mark, China's RMB, etc., attached to a large picture of the world map. On the cardboard, add some of the goods such as toys, clothing, computers, cars, marking icons, let people see his understanding of knowledge, ideas innovation and hands-on skills. The project score accounts for 25% of the results of the review.
3. Examination results. This is a comprehensive measurement, the score of the test and the final exam, according to the different disciplines, separate volumes and closing forms. Its opening exam is not simply copying, and students must have their own innovation and discovery. For example, students' opening exams, students must personally observe, record, analyze data, and propose recommendations for ecological balance and environmental protection. 25% of the test score spent on evaluate.
The final colleidence of the US high school students:
Divided into 5 grades of A (excellent), B (best), c (medium), D (middle), f (fail). These five levels can also be converted to: A is 4 points, B is 3 points, C is 2 points, D is 1 point, f is 0 points. To get a high school diploma and admission university, the average score of the 4 years of high school students must be 3 points.
In this way, the incident of "a volume of life" is avoided. Students must take care of us every test and homework, and dispel the luck of the temporary Buddha feet and the transportation. Therefore, the United States's high school student is a complete professional study and a comprehensive development of organic binding process.
Do not use "a volume of life", pay attention to students' overall quality
There is no unified enrollment institution in the United States, and all admission work is from the university's own owners, responsible for the university admission is the admission committee of universities. However, the results do not guarantee universities approved. The college admissions newborn standard is not a hammer sound from the college entrance examination.
First, the admission committee pays attention to the student's academic performance.
The university enrollment is not the score of the college entrance examination, especially attaches great importance to the academic performance of the students in high school, especially the trend of the results, and to determine whether the student will graduate successfully after entering the university. Some schools claim that the admission or not, 2/3 is based on the performance of the students from 9 to 11th, including the number of courses in the last three years, the average score of the exam, is in the class, whether the university is elected in advance Course, 1/3 is based on SAT's results. The Shanghai Fudan Academy of Student Zhang Minhua, was admitted to the University of Harvard to participate in the exam, and there were 19,000 high school graduates to apply for Harvard, and finally only 1600. In the student of the applicant, 300 people in the national unified SAT reached (1600 points), 1,000 people were more than 1,500. Harvard chose Zhang Minhua because he received a few national Olympic Competition Awards in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology when I met School in Fudan, and I received first prizes in the "radar cup" competition involving 12 courses in middle schools. Therefore, the excellent achievements of the homework in the middle school are important basis for him to enter Harvard University. Second, the recommendation letter must be indispensable.
US education is more concerned about the comprehensive development of students. In addition to the usual results and SAT scores, high school students want to advice on their ideal universities, but also have a different recommendation letter, that is, the head of the teacher or society. Write a letter. American school encourages students to participate in various social activities inside and outside the school, they can choose the activities participating in their own interests and development plans, these activities are organized by students or social institutions, such as participating in the student meeting, interest group, sports Club, Boy Son, as library assistant, to government departments, company, charity to shoot short working, temporary work or volunteer. The school has a good activity ability, leadership skills and social responsibility. I want to study doctors of medical students, I'd like to go to the hospital for a small nurse or a medical assistant; I want to study political academic activity, you can go to the positive molecules of poverty alleviation disaster relief or to the city, state government and even the Congress or the White House. Intern, etc. The person in charge of various social organizations will give these high school students, as a strong reference to entering the university. Through these extracurricular activities, students have learned a skill, growing social experience and organization, and can also get recommendations, which will entrunly enter the university (especially famous school), which will enhance very favorable conditions. Students who are "two ear do not smell the window, only one reading of the sage book", there is a loss on the issue of college.
Third, the school also examines the application forms of students on academic performance, activity, award-winning records, and its papers.
Some universities will conduct an interview when admitted to their new students, and we will measure the comprehensive quality of a student from all aspects.
From this, we can see that the process of the University of American High School Studies is that he accepts middle education and has been fully developed. The American college entrance examination pays both students 'basic knowledge and basic skills, and there are various flexible examination systems as the scale of the student level. In addition, students encourage students to participate in social practice, and truly measure students' overall quality. I broke the situation of "a row of life".
