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Archive for December, 2007

Question: I want to get into a good college after high school…?

What do most colleges look for? I am currently a sophomore in high school and I have a 3.0 GPA out of a 4.0 GPA grading system. I have:
A’s in English II and Biology I
B’s in P.E. and Spanish II
C’s in Algebra II and Government

Also, these are my 1st quarter grades, so will I be able to bring my grades up to all A’s and B’s my the end of the semester if I get almost all A’s on tests and worksheets? Or is it impossible since I already have two C’s?

Answer: Depends on what you consider good? What area of the country you are looking at? How much your teacher will weigh the worksheets and tests that come in the second half of the semester? and Nothing is ever impossible,

If good is a 4-year state school with a decent reputation than yes anything above a 2.67 is usually satisfactory.

If we assume that the classes in which you have C’s have approximately 50% of the grade work left and you get all A’s on the left over work, you will have B’s in both those classes.

Other factors in getting into college include extra-curricular activities, ACT/SAT test scores, and could include an essay or interview.

You have at least a year before you need to worry about this, but when you apply, Apply to all the schools you can. I only applied to four (got into all of them) and have often wondered if I would have made into some others that I liked.

So, we have zero on top of two and underneath. Then treating each column separately, we subtract 253 by whatever number B is underneath 2 which in this case is zero. That gives 253 again. Now you may think we have not gotten anywhere but in Long Division, we have progressed. We are done with the first column so now it’s time to move to the second column.

Now, for any column, you want to take care of the number in that column and any numbers to the left of it. In this case, the number in the second column is 5 but 2 still remains in the first column so you have 25 to work with in the second column. So, how many times can 5 divide into 25? The answer is 5, so A for the second column is 5 and you write 5 on top. (where the blue question-mark is). At the bottom, B is 5 times 5 which is 25 so you write 25 at the bottom.

now treating each column separately, we subtract 25 from 253. The first column is zero and so is the second column. That leaves the third column as three. Now we want to divide 5 into 3. However, since 3 is smaller than 5, 5 can divide into 3 zero times. So, we again write zero on top of the roof in the third column and at the bottom write B = 5 x 0 = 0. That means the remainder is 3 or we can keep the Long Division going.

So, for this Long Division, 253 divided by 5 is 50 with the remainder of 3.

KS2 Maths SATs Revision – Q5 – Multiples and Factors