Resentment of ethnic Chinese economic aptitude grew in the 1950s as native Indonesian merchants felt they could not remain competitive.
"Oranges," seven years earlier, had grown in the same way, but my aptitude for selection needed growing, too.
But many factors go into a test score, from scholastic aptitude and knowledge to growing up in poverty or affluence.
Most importantly, the association that we find between UKCAT and final ranking (H&C), further strengthens a growing body of evidence that the aptitude test adds value to the admissions process beyond the traditional interview scores and school performance indicators.
Growing up Elizabeth showed an enormous intellectual aptitude and became renowned as an influential young mind.
Students with an aptitude for craft skills can consider a growing number of colleges working with the newly established National Skills Academy for Hospitality.
I actually felt like I was going to have an aptitude for it because I was sporty growing up and thought that hand-eye co-ordination would just translate into being a good dancer.
Although the integrative nature of music and language abilities continues to be debated [ 25- 27], a growing body of work supports shared abilities for music and reading, with music aptitude accounting for a substantial amount of the variance in child reading ability [ 28- 30] even after controlling for nonverbal IQ and phonological awareness [ 31].
Examining individual and collective motivations, understanding personal aptitudes and attitudes, and exploring the edges of unconscious biases are all important steps toward growing the sense of self-in-relationship that is vital to making progress toward health [ 28].
Growing up, he found himself in places where human cruelty flourished, was formed by witness to it and developed a rare aptitude for conveying it in fiction.
What, he asks, can the growing body of research into these traits/aptitudes teach us about how to be wise?
