Specific information literacy instruction, in several different languages, for pupils studying for university entrance examinations

pragmatic knowledge in university entrance exam for english majors

abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

Genre analysis of writing tasks in Japanese university entrance examinations

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...

Entrance surface dose measurements for routine X-ray examinations in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari hospitals

Background: There is not any report on the radiation doses received by patients in diagnostic radiology sections in hospitals under control of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Medical Sciences University, in the south west of Iran. Objectives: The aim of this study is measurement of entrance surface doses (ESD) for the most routine types of X-ray procedures in radiology centers as part of ongoing d...

University Entrance Examinations as a Benchmark Resource for NLP-based Problem Solving

This paper describes a corpus comprised of university entrance examinations, which is aimed to promote research on NLP-based problem solving. Since entrance examinations are created for quantifying human ability of problem solving, they are a desirable resource for benchmarking NLP-based problem solving systems. However, as entrance examinations involve a variety of subjects and types of questi...

Mekh-mat Entrance Examinations Problems