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From the discussion Vocabulary Practice
Wed, 07 May 2008 22:16:48 -0000
One of my favorites – poodlefaker – Youth too much given to tea-parties and ladies’ society generally.
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From the discussion Caught a bug?
Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:37 -0000
http://learnhub.com/test/take/182-vocabulary-building-exercises
If 5 people have taken the test, and I got a score of 9/10, how can the average be 10/10? Or did I misread the info?
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From the discussion What would you like to see?
Wed, 07 May 2008 17:43:06 -0000
I don’t know! Actually, I have been tutoring my student on the ACT.
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From the discussion What would you like to see?
Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:16 -0000
As someone who has tutored students taking the SAT and ACT for the first time, I think strategies are as important as the test content itself. I realize that you may not come up with new strategies, but describing known strategies would be a help.
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acrosstheuniverse said – Tue, 13 May 2008 19:01:03 -0000
Check out some steps and strategies in the two lessons below…
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From the discussion Favorite Everyday Wines....
Wed, 07 May 2008 01:22:23 -0000
This thread cracks me up – an American poster posts a question and a bunch of Canucks respond.
When I go into my grocery store – Kroger – I have succombed to American Chardonnays; my wife thinks that they are too bitter, so I dive into the Riesling aisle.
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From the lesson Math SAT- Basic Algebra
Tue, 06 May 2008 20:00:19 -0000
I don’t recall having to take an entrance exam when I went to Queen’s. I did have to have pretty good marks though. Having mentored high school students for four years now in the US, I think the SAT & ACT are good. If you’re good at either one, it means you know basic things well and it also means that you can strategize. I knew nothing about strategizing at that age.
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From the lesson "The" and "A/an"
Tue, 06 May 2008 19:53:58 -0000
Related to this issue is what to use and how to pronounce “a”or “an” when it precedes a word stating with an “h”. Although you could say “It is a historical event.”, the sentence rolls off the tongue easier if you say “It was an istorical event.” by keeping the “h” silent.
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From the lesson When your calculator runs out of power
Tue, 06 May 2008 19:01:29 -0000
This is true.
Yesterday I had to make a choice between buying 8 yogurt containers for $5.00 or using a coupon that gave me $.40 off for 6 yogurt containers. They were $.89 each. I didn’t have a pen nor paper and after some metail arithmetic, I concluded that one deal was as good as the other.
On the weekend I asked my 7 year old neice what 2×19 was. She knew what 2×20 was. All I had to do was point out that she had one 2 too many and so she had to back off a 2 from 40.
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From the lesson 5 Commonly Mistaken "A" words
Tue, 06 May 2008 18:48:15 -0000
“You should have excepted your offer.” I had to go to my Oxford dictionary for this one. I have never seen nor used “except” as a verb, but you can.
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From the lesson Math SAT- Basic Algebra
Tue, 06 May 2008 18:39:59 -0000
Oren, Is the SAT administered in Canada? Also, in strategy 1. near the end, “Remember to take it slow and think through your answer.” One stratgey I tell my student is the one of triage, that is, go through the questions fairly quickly and if you think you can anser it quickly do so; make note of the ones you passed over, and make a second or third cycle through the unanswered ones.
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raunak said – Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:22:24 -0000
me a juniour college student who is now in std 11th. i want to do engineering in US. i was told by someone that for applying to universities in US I have to give SAT. but i don’t have any clue about this SAT can you help me with what i should do and how i should go about this? yours’ raunak ajmani
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From the discussion Post your favorite Picture
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:16:11 -0000
Lower Rideau Lake at sunset. Near Smiths Falls, Ontario.
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From the lesson 3rd: Open Access Textbooks
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:29:45 -0000
Just heard this on the radio…
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/25/steering_clear_of_the_bookstore/
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From the video How to say my last name
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:39:32 -0000
I could have told you that – years and years of watching European Football.
Next trivia question – where are his ancestors from? Ukraine? Poland? Austria? Russia?
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From the discussion Project Euler
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:41:11 -0000
Well, I learned some things that I didn’t know about in VBA, and I thought I was good in VBA.
It was humbling to see some questions solved with 1 or 2 lines where I was taking about 50 lines of code to do it!
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From the discussion Project Euler
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:31:55 -0000
Yeah, a bunch of us worked on it last summer. I was using Excel with VBA.
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=148206&highlight=project%7Ceuler
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From the lesson 3rd: Open Access Textbooks
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:49:18 -0000
If I compare my Grade 13 Algebra book (yes, we had 5 full grades of high school) with a contemporary high school math book (I’m a college coach for a Withrow student), on one hand I see a rather dry, colorless book compared to a book filled with color pictures.
Clearly, over the years, at least the presentation style has changed. Content too. The results may be the same, 2+2 is still 4.
I think I may have become comfortable with what I was given back then. A current student may look at my book and say “Yuk”, while I may look at a modern one and say, “Why?”.
Your perspective hear is much broader than mine, as you address the book industry, the univerities/schools, whereas in my replies so far, I have only loooked at this through the eyes of a person/student.
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From the lesson 3rd: Open Access Textbooks
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:40:28 -0000
This may depend on the topic. I bet if I went into my basement and dug up my math books, my physics books, chemistry (which I reread once to do some winemaking), I would find most of the material still correct and relevant.
When I am learning a new software language I like to have a book. If I need to jump around, I can look in the index quickly and go to where I want in the book quickly as well. This was more critical when I had only 1 monitor until 6 months ago. Still now, I’ll have both monitors on the go, thereby requiring a book.
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From the discussion Global Warming is good for Canada
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:58:42 -0000
For someone who used to downhill ski, I would not invest in ski resorts!
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From the discussion I still use Notepad to write HTML
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:45:45 -0000
One of my favorite editors for html is an executable that comes with Excel & Office. To use it, open Excel, go to Tools, Macro, Microsoft Script Editor.
Alternatively, you’ll find it in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 and the file name is called mse7.exe. The path and exect file name may depend on what version of Office you have. Try it out!
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lechuck said – Wed, 07 May 2008 18:40:49 -0000
Perhaps the other 4 got 10/10. I believe the system rounds the number, so if the average score is 9.7 it will round it to 10, if its 9.3, it will round it to 9.