The main purpose of this research is to examine the mathematics course achievement levels students who take high school entrance exam according some variables. For purpose, data were collected with help a questionnaire prepared by researcher. descriptive survey model, which quantitative method, was used in research. carried out first semester 2018-2019 academic year. sample study consisted tota...

Matura is an important high-stakes examination present in the Polish education system since late 18th century. It taken on completion of high school and compulsory for those who want to apply higher education. As a result reform, 2005 exam took new form. Since then it has been professional, external, standardised assessment used analysis student performance, – most importantly lieu university e...

The annual exam questions in China National College Entrance Examination (CNCEE, commonly known as Gaokao) have attracted wide attention from the entire society China. This paper analyzes an important math question related to always holding inequalities with unknown parameter 2020 CNCEE and builds different solutions via separation or classified discussion, then gives a systematic effective des...

this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

Many educated adults possess exact mathematical abilities in addition to an approximate, intuitive sense of number, often referred to as the Approximate Number System (ANS). Here we investigate the link between ANS precision and mathematics performance in adults by testing participants on an ANS-precision test and collecting their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), a standardized col...

This paper introduces an overview of the RITE (Recognizing Inference in TExt) task in NTCIR-9. We evaluate systems that automatically recognize entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction between two texts written in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese. The task consists of four subtasks: Binary classification of entailment (BC); Multi-class classification including paraphrase an...

Nowadays, the student dropout rate in Mexican higher education institutions have increased, affecting diverse life aspects such as economic, social, academic, and among others. The students dropout prediction is a challenge because of numerous interacting factors; an accurate prediction is useful for universities to implement strategies that reduce student failure – e.g., to implement tutorial ...

With the Law No. 6287, known as 4+4+4 regulation in education public, age of starting primary school was reduced to 60 months, and this first implemented 2012-2013 year. This research aims analyze effect difference among students who started year whose ages ranged from months 84 based on 2020 High School Entrance System (LGS) Central Examination data, which they participated eighth grade. The d...

We describe CMU’s UIMA-based modular automatic question answering (QA) system. This system answers multiplechoice English questions for the world history entrance exam. Questions are preceded by short descriptions providing a historical context. Given the context and question-specific instructions, we generate verifiable assertions for each answer choice. These assertions are evaluated using se...

Certainly no one in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, could have guessed that one of their own born that year would someday receive global praise for his undisputed genius, meriting recently the coveted title “person of the century” (Time magazine). Likewise, international fame was probably not what Albert Einstein himself anticipated in 1895 when he failed the entrance exam for the Federal Polytechnical I...