Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Change
Was at Boon Lay Bus Interchange today, and pleasantly surprised by the new air-conditioned facility. What a change from the old Interchange three years ago!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Farewell 2009
What a year it has been! This is the last post with a Christmas tree photo. Looking forward to 2010.. :)
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Graduate Record Exam
'The Graduate Records Examination (GRE) General Test measures certain developed verbal, quantitative, and analytical abilities that are important for academic achievement. In doing so, the test necessarily reflects the opportunities and efforts that have contributed to the development of those abilities.
The General Test is only one of several means of evaluating likely success in graduate school. It is not intended to measure inherent intellectual capacity or intelligence. Neither is it intended to measure creativity, motivation, perseverance, or social worth. The test does, however, make it possible to compare students with different backgrounds. A GRE score of 500, for example, has the same meaning whether earned by a student at a small, private liberal arts college or by a student at a large public university.
Because several different forms (editions) of the test are in active use, all students do not receive exactly the same test edition. However, all editions measure the same skills and meet the same specifications for content and difficulty. The scores from different editions are made comparable to one another by a statistical procedure known as equating. This process makes it possible to assure that all reported scores of a given value denote the same level of developed ability regardless of which edition of the test is taken.
Since students have wide-ranging backgrounds, interests, and skills, the verbal sections of the General Test use questions from diverse areas of experience. The areas range from the activities of daily life to broad categories of academic interest such as the sciences, social studies, and the humanities. Knowledge of high school level arithmetic, plane geometry, and algebra provides adequate preparation for the quantitative sections of the test. Questions in the analytical sections measure analytical skills developed in virtually all fields of study. No formal training in logic or methods of analysis is needed to do well in these sections.'
The above extract was taken from this book.
The General Test is only one of several means of evaluating likely success in graduate school. It is not intended to measure inherent intellectual capacity or intelligence. Neither is it intended to measure creativity, motivation, perseverance, or social worth. The test does, however, make it possible to compare students with different backgrounds. A GRE score of 500, for example, has the same meaning whether earned by a student at a small, private liberal arts college or by a student at a large public university.
Because several different forms (editions) of the test are in active use, all students do not receive exactly the same test edition. However, all editions measure the same skills and meet the same specifications for content and difficulty. The scores from different editions are made comparable to one another by a statistical procedure known as equating. This process makes it possible to assure that all reported scores of a given value denote the same level of developed ability regardless of which edition of the test is taken.
Since students have wide-ranging backgrounds, interests, and skills, the verbal sections of the General Test use questions from diverse areas of experience. The areas range from the activities of daily life to broad categories of academic interest such as the sciences, social studies, and the humanities. Knowledge of high school level arithmetic, plane geometry, and algebra provides adequate preparation for the quantitative sections of the test. Questions in the analytical sections measure analytical skills developed in virtually all fields of study. No formal training in logic or methods of analysis is needed to do well in these sections.'
The above extract was taken from this book.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Encouragement
Two words of encouragement for all Standard Chartered Marathon participants. :) Looking forward to my first half-marathon!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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