This paper describes a corpus comprised of university entrance examinations, which is aimed to promote research on NLP-based problem solving. Since entrance examinations are created for quantifying human ability of problem solving, they are a desirable resource for benchmarking NLP-based problem solving systems. However, as entrance examinations involve a variety of subjects and types of questi...

the ph.d. entrance examinations of islamic azad university in iran are administered annually to select the best applicants for ph.d. programs. in consideration of the important decisions, which are made on the basis of the results of these examinations, the present study was conducted to provide a qualitative evaluation of field-specific language subtests (flss) of four entrance examinations ad...

students’ academic background and high school national achievement examinations (hnaes) as an alternative for the conventional university entrance examinations (uees): evaluation of whys, whats , and hows of the change

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...