We tested whether dreams can anticipate a stressful exam and how failure/success in dreams affect next-day performance. We collected information on students' dreams during the night preceding the medical school entrance exam. Demographic, academic, sleep and dream characteristics were compared to the students' grades on the exam. Of the 719 respondents to the questionnaire (of 2324 total studen...

In this study, it is aimed to examine the effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on psychological, social and educational status high school seniors preparing for university entrance exam. context; 2020-2021 academic year, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 students from different types who studying in last year exam, line semi-structured questionnaire, data obtained descriptive analysis content ...

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 ...

This paper describes the CMUQA entry into NTCIR QA Lab-3. CMUQA is an essay-question answering system that uses Wikipedia as its knowledge base. The essay-question portion of QA Lab-3 is composed of real exam questions from the University of Tokyo’s entrance exams which are focused on world history. The proposed system formulates answers to these questions using the following sequence of proces...

Our FRDC_QA team participated in the QA-Lab English subtask of the NTCIR-11. In this paper, we describe our system for solving real-world university entrance exam questions, which are related to world history. Wikipedia is used as the main external resource for our system. Since problems with choosing right/wrong sentence from multiple sentence choices account for about two-thirds of the total,...

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...