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"Ace the AP Statistics Exam with this comprehensive study guide, including 4 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews for all topics, strategies for every question type, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually Work. Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test. Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically. Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harder. Everything You Need...
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2021.
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xii, 1101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"The Official ACT Prep Guide is the best-selling resource for students getting ready to take the ACT test. Step by step, the book walks you through the entire test experience from registration to getting the final results. No matter what your style of learning, this handy resource is filled with a variety of effective test-taking strategies. The Official ACT Prep Guide and the companion ACT Online Prep includes three actual ACT tests -- all of which...
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2015.
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xii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
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"For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over the past two years, predictions that higher education will be the next industry to undergo "disruption" have become more frequent and fervent. Currently a university's...
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2021.
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361 pages ; 24 cm
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"Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless, broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness. But when he's offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society ... Instead of focusing on his work, however, Kierk becomes obsessed with another project; investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a colleague."--Provided by publisher
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When Sabine Reye wins a scholarship to California's most prestigious art school, she longs for a place where she belongs. But the cutthroat world of visual arts is nothing like what she had imagined. Faculty member Colin Krell seems to take merciless delight in tearing down her best work-- and warns her that she'll lose the merit-based award if she doesn't improve. Adam, a grad student, helps Sabine get insight on Krell by showing her the modern master's...
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"'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy--a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted...
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2022.
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After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
69) Admission
Pub. Date
2013
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
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2015.
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"A college degree has never been more important-or more expensive. If you're not made of money, where can you get an amazing liberal arts education without your parents having to remortgage the house or cash in their retirement fund? Which degrees will allow you to fulfill your dreams and earn a decent paycheck? What do you really need to know if you're the first in your family to go to college? How do you find good schools that offer a well-rounded...
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2021.
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v, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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Everything You Need For A Perfect 5. Ace the AP European History Exam with this comprehensive study guide--including 3 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our Student Tools online portal, and targeted strategies for every section of the exam.--Publisher's website.
74) ACT prep
Pub. Date
[2023]
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ix, 882 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Get all the prep you need to ace the ACT with 6 full-length practice tests (4 in the book and 2 online), thorough ACT topic reviews, and extra practice online"--
76) Digital SAT prep
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xv, 602 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Succeed on the SAT with the Princeton Review! With 3 full-length practice tests, in-depth reviews for all exam content, and strategies for scoring success, SAT Prep, 2024 covers every facet of this challenging and important test.
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Meet Ramesh Kumar, "examinations consultat," who makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite. He is just a cog in the wheel that keeps the middle classes thriving, until he takes India's national university entrance exam for a lackluster student and inadvertently comes in first. Ramesh sees an opportunity--perhaps even an obligation--to cash in on the newfound celebrity of his client Rudi, who's soon juggling stardom and his...
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Everything you need to help score a perfect 5. Ace the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam with this comprehensive study guide--including 2 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews & strategies, access to online extras, and audio tracks for realistic listening practice. Techniques That Actually Work.
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"A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing"--
Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery--...
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