Last month Mr Balls admitted that at most 20, 000 youngsters would start diplomas in the five subjects on offer this autumn.
The intention is that students should take four or even five subjects at AS-level (Advanced Subsidiary) in the first year, specialising in the second.
Last summer, the scientists chose fifty-five subjects, equally split between high delayers and low delayers, and sent each one a laptop computer loaded with working-memory experiments.
The study is small only five subjects.
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The five top subjects among them are Movies, Food, Startups, Psychology and U.S. Politics.
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Last year the league tables were overhauled to show results in the English Baccalaureate - or EBacc - which records achievement in five core subjects.
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In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word. (They interviewed more than forty-five hundred subjects.) Palermo and Jenkins soon discovered that the vast majority of these associations were utterly predictable.
They chose as their subjects five youths from different parts of the country.
The subjects were randomized into five groups and received a mild, noninvasive electrical current, via a cap and electrodes, running either to or away from the part of the cerebellum that controlled either the faster or slower leg.
Experiment by watching five different documentaries, all on completely different subjects.
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All three new tests will mirror the old GED in many ways: They will be five to eight hours long and cover the basic subjects of reading, writing, math, science and history.
The third of the subjects with the highest urinary cortisol had a five-fold increased risk of dying of cardiovascular disease.
The bigger reason, though, is that an election campaign now would be dominated by discussion of second homes, moats and duck houses not subjects which should determine the shape of a five-year parliament.
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One study examined the first five years of NCLB and found that while more time was devoted for tested subjects, other subjects such as science and art were cut, on average by 30 minutes a day.
The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talking to their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.
After receiving the subjects' responses to their questionnaires, Dr Barefoot and his colleagues divided the group into five sets, depending on whether they were drinkers of beer, wine, spirits, none in particular, or no alcohol at all.
The first five diplomas will be taught from 2008, and by 2013 all teenagers will have a wide range of diploma subjects to choose from.
While the study is definitely on the small side -- just five patients -- the researchers seem to be quite enthused with their findings, reporting that four of the subjects achieved significant reductions in pain, in one case after just a single session.
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