Higher Education, a road less traveled
in the past but currently a highway that everybody desires to select
on their journey to personal and professional success. each highway
requires a toll to be paid where the higher education's 1st toll tax
assumes the form of various standardized tests like IELTS, TOEFL,
PTE, GRE, GMAT or SAT. And it needs sheer hard work, focus,
determination and willpower to get through.
Therefore, further in this blog, we are
going to look at various standardized tests that Indian students are
needed to prepare for with good scores to secure their admissions in
the choice of their university or higher education institutes abroad.
Test Preparation but WHY?
Aspirations to study abroad begin to
take form as soon as students have made their course and country
selections. every country and university overseas receives huge
amounts of student applications globally for admissions however to
think that all of them will get to the summit of the everest is
naive. Isn't it?
That is why certain educational boards
were set up to help with shortlisting of the applications and so the
standardized tests came into being. Students are now needed to prove
their mettle by scoring a minimum eligibility score in these tests
set by the universities or even country rules and rules for higher
education.
Standardized tests like IELTS, TOEFL
etc are designed specifically to fulfill with academic needs, make
sure that candidates are extremely serious regarding their higher
education and most importantly they're fit for an academic system
that's entirely totally different from their home country. let us
help you with an example:
If you're aspiring to pursue your
higher education at Graduate level in the USA, students are required
to prepare for GRE,
If you're aspiring for UG level
education in the USA, students should target SAT, and
If you're looking to pursue MBA abroad,
then GMAT should be your goal.
A Brief On various test preparation
So far, we believe that you should have
understood the importance of preparing for various standardized tests
as the 1st roadblock in your plans to study abroad. let us now
understand briefly about them:
1. IELTS, short for International
english language Testing System, was formally established in 1989 and
is predominantly an academic english language, speaking and writing
along with a face to face assessment. Offers a spread of English
accents ranging from British, American, New zealander and Australian.
2. TOEFL, short for test of English as
Foreign Language, was set up around 1988 as is purely computer-based
academic English language assessment test in an MCQ format.
3. SAT, short for Scholastic power test
was introduced in 1926 to evaluate students' understanding of
specific subjects taught within the classroom along with their
competitiveness and likelihood to succeed in their course.
4. GRE, short for Graduate Record
Examination, started in 1936 is used to evaluate student's aptitude
for success in various graduate programs like biology, literature,
chemistry, math, physics etc.
5. GMAT, short for Graduate Management
power test, introduced in 1953 is designed to evaluate students
aspiring for business or management program.
6. PTE, short for Pearson test of
English, introduced in 2009 is designed to assess, authorize and
validate English speaking skills of non- native students aspiring to
study abroad.
We hope that this blog served to assist
you understand the requirement for test preparation whereas planning
to study abroad, hence, in the upcoming posts we are going to discuss
long about various aspects of these standardized tests from
preparation perspective.
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