Ms. Clark would recommend tutoring only for those students who struggle with testing.
Proponents of retakes believe they allow students who struggle with test-taking another chance to master the material, and say retakes help with overall retention.
Underprivileged applicants, or those who genuinely struggle with test anxiety, will make significant improvements to their application.
The jail struggles with testing the 100,000 or so who pass through its intake each year.
The book inspired us to change how we taught our seventh-grade language-arts students in a high-poverty school that struggled with test scores, especially reading and math.
Where schools believe individual pupils will struggle with the test, they will be able to apply to defer them until 17 or 18.
But some educators and parents question whether such schools are the solution for urban districts, which typically have large concentrations of poor students and struggle with low test scores and discipline problems.
They provided a vast, exotic, canvas, far from increasingly safe and conventional Britain, on which to recast old familiar plots: quests, struggles with evil, tests of strength, exciting encounters with the unfamiliar.
Unable to initially qualify academically due to struggles with standardized tests, Roy balanced extra study sessions with basketball practice and a job at a container company in West Seattle until he was ready to join the Huskies.
"People with vision impairment may find it more difficult to complete the cognitive impairment tests and… people with cognitive impairment may struggle with visual acuity tests," she wrote.
But they still struggle with the fairness test.
