South Korean Woman Fails Driving Test 771 Times

A South Korean woman has spent a whopping $3000 in total on fees for the written exam required for a driver's license. She accomplished this by taking the test nearly every day for 771 times since 2005. A score of 60 would be recognized as a pass, but from the past 771...

A Glimpse Of News From Pakistani Newspapers (Sunday, 4 Jan, 2009)

A Glimpse Of News From Pakistani Newspapers From Sunday, 4th January 2009 Issue.Daily Dawn ( English ) And Jang ( Urdu ) Are The Widely Circulated And Well Known Newspapers Of Pakistan. Today, I Thought Just To Share With The World A Glimpse Of News Published In Today’s...

Nintendo DS - A Teaching Tool

"Redux::A Year Ago Today - Nintendo DS As A Teaching Tool… Redux! About this time last year, we touched base on how Japan has embraced its personal technology - Nintendo DS - to help in the education of its kids.  Little did we...

Kauhajoki College Massacre: Saari's Army Career was Terminated Early

25th Sept 2008 AS more details come out about the gunman Matti Juhani Saari, 22, there appears to have been some pointers to his state of mind, apart from the video, which was disturbing enough for police to...

Exam Hysteria Causes Mass Fainting in Finals Exams

Anyone who has taken difficult or professional exams will be familiar with the collective sighs that fill the room as candidates turn over their exam paper to read the questions for the first time and the...

Japanese Elephant Better at Math than American Students

Yup, it's true. It really is true."The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, gray surprise to science, the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for math as well Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially...

New Algeria suicide attack kills 11

Following yesterday's attack that killed 43 people, Algeria was hit by two new suicide bombings today. This signals further trouble ahead, as it indicated a sustained campaign of violence by the country's Islamist groups."Algeria was rocked by two further suicide bombings...

Scandal of the SATS: How exam paper littered with grammatical errors scored H...

" A headmistress is demanding her pupils' SATs papers be remarked after an exam paper littered with grammatical mistakes scored higher than a literate, fluently written one. Janis Burdin, head of Moss Side Primary School in Chorley, Lancashire released two examples - by...

German Jews angry that citizenship test ignores Holocaust

A new citizenship test in Germany is coming under fire today by Jews living there because it does not mention the Holocaust.It does however, mention many other less important points in German history.Starting in...

ScienceDaily.com: Achieving Top Grades In Science Subjects More Difficult, Re...

It has always been a question why this is so? My question too why and this research finally said so. The article revealed that -"School children studying science and technology subjects like Maths, Physics and Chemistry find it much harder to achieve the top exam grades than...

Pupil gains marks for exam expletive

What the ....?"A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.The pupil,...

High School Graduation 2008..

One of the major part in Indonesian Educational System is National Examination (Ujian Nasional ~~ Unas) for Junior and Senior High School as a compulsory..For Junior High students, the result of Unas determine...

Most cancer doctors avoid saying it's the end

" CHICAGO - One look at Eileen Mulligan lying soberly on the exam table and Dr. John Marshall knew the time for the Big Talk had arrived.He began gently. The chemotherapy is not helping. The cancer is advanced. There are no good options left to try. It would be good to...

Exams system faces health check

This news comes shortly after Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed that hospitals will now be paid based on patient satisfaction rather than number of pateitns treated."The public is to be asked whether it thinks standards in exams are falling, by a new independent...

School tests are bad, m'kay

English officials will review this week whether standardized tests in school are helping any, or whether they might be doing harm."Ministers will this week be under renewed pressure to scrap school tests for...

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