Exam students given extra time
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More A-level and GCSE candidates are given extra time to help with physical and emotional difficulties.
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By Valerie Russ, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 27--IT IS EARLY, not quite time for the 9:30 a.m. English-composition class at Community College of Philadelphia to begin.   Arielle Wilson is the first student in her seat. And she's ready to go.
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The replacement crew for the International Space Station started two days of preflight exams Monday, part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission.    Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S...
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Pakistanâs Election Commission said that the extra time was needed to cope with damage caused by protests.
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Independent schools are stretching their lead among the top-performing A-level students, say the Tories.
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The company that provides standardized tests to Virginia's schoolchildren will add staff and upgrade technology to help prevent technical glitches such as those that recently forced thousands of students to retake online exams, officials said yesterday.
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NEW YORK -- It was an ethics exam in a journalism class, and someone may have cheated.
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Students of avaiation are watching keenly the developments taking place with the liberalisation of the airline industry in Ireland.
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While many students spent there summers taking on local jobs and internships, five University students took advantage of a hands-on learning experience in July during a three-week study abroad program to ...
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Undergraduates in England spend less time studying than their European counterparts, a report suggests.
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Exam boards in England are planning to put more simple questions in some science papers, the Times reports.
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A Harvard student must be allowed extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk to feed her 4-month-old daughter, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled Wednesday.
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Like many schoolchildren, members of Congress were due back at their desks Tuesday after a summer break. Unlike the students, lawmakers will immediately face major tests: on Iraq, children's health care, a home mortgage crisis and the budget.
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By Anna L. Mallory, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 22--One by one, students stacked 1,000-page red, blue and green engineering textbooks atop the cardboard structure they'd spent more than an hour creating.
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Â· Sats make English pupils most tested in the world  Â· Parents sceptical of league tables, GTC study finds
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Pupils taking GCSEs will have to sit a new battery of mini-exams as traditional coursework is axed because of the temptations to cheat, plagiarise from the internet or seek unfair help from parents.
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Calls for a national qualifying exam as research shows wide variations in graduates' performance