Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Understanding The Need For Standardized Test Preparation


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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