Around 84% of teachers surveyed reported a decrease in vocational subjects being offered, while a similar proportion said there had been a decrease in examination entry rates in creative subjects.
As seen in figure 5, international medical graduates scoring the minimum 7.0 on IELTS required for PLAB examination entry are more likely to receive a less satisfactory ARCP outcome than are UK graduates.
selecting local people for training - there is a lower threshold for people from rural areas in terms of the national examination entry standards for medical school upgrading assistant doctors - young students stay in the cities after training, even if they come from remote areas, so the best approach is to upgrade those assistant doctors working in the remote areas.
In 1933, the Moscow State University changed its admission's policy and so, with the help of a tutor, he studied for a competitive examination for entry into the university.
That is certainly the case for post-graduate medical examinations, where passing an examination provides entry into a specialist career, and failure means the abandonment of that career route.
Of the 518 women with fetal abdominal circumference >90th percentile, it was diagnosed in 73.9% with the first ultrasound examination at entry and in 13.1% with the second ultrasound examination.
A biostatistician who had no other involvement in the trial generated the randomisation lists in advance, which were installed together with the examination data entry programme on laptops (one per centre, for study use only) before the opening of each centre.
Data were recorded on socio-demographic characteristics, past medical history and events, main complaints and clinical examination at entry, biological and radiological exams (full blood count, thick blood smear, hemocultures, serum CRP (normal < 6 mg/l), serum LDH (normal range 313 618 IU/l)) as well as the administered treatment and evolution during hospitalization.
Historically, the direction has been toward "meritocracy"—the best individual for each job, competitive examinations for entry, and selection and promotion on the basis of merit.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy famously lamented, for instance, that "La Princesse de Clèves," a 17th-century novel, had been included by a "sadist or an imbecile" in an examination for entry-level state administrative posts.
But tradition and continuity rather than innovation were the hallmarks of the Prussian administration under him; many of what new departures there were (for example, an effort in 1770 to introduce a system of state examinations for entry into the civil service) were not very effective.
