Students also use the results to decide which subjects to take as full A-levels.
He said he was asking Cabinet colleagues to come up with ideas for which subjects would need extra support.
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Deciding which subjects to study at A-level after their first year of AS-levels allowed them to make "right choices for their future", he said.
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Secondary education in the United States is unusual in that students typically have considerable latitude in selecting which subjects they study and at what level of difficulty.
So when research is performed internationally, it is important that the local population from which subjects are drawn have at least the potential to benefit from the research.
AIG, which is now a government owned company, engages in SCF, which subjects certain financial activities, including investments, to the dictates of Islamic law and the Islamic religion.
The real truth of the matter is that any system of taxation which subjects the same income stream to the tax regimes of two countries is double taxation.
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But, then, that is the nature of a referendum in which a single proposition is being tested, by contrast with an election which subjects competing manifesto packages to scrutiny.
The argument that some matters, such as abortion, are of such moral urgency that they supersede a general preference for devolution sounds reasonable, until you try to decide which subjects are suitably urgent.
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But although all the excited talk about a great fall in standards seems ill-founded, evidence does exist that as pupils have become increasingly aware of which subjects are the hardest to pass they have deserted them.
The authors noted that there has never been a controlled clinical trial of parachutes, and facetiously suggested that one be conducted in which subjects were randomized to jump from a plane either with or without a device.
At 14 you are supposed to be able to decide which subjects you enjoy and so will take through to GCSE, but you are not allowed to drop the ones that you don't like - so this has failed.
He explained that the assembly is addressing the problem of "fractured links between schools and employers" by building relationships and ensuring that young people know which subjects to take to early on so that they enter the work place with the relevant skills.
Last week the journal Science published news of a fascinating psychological study, involving 19, 000 people ages 18 to 68, in which subjects consistently underestimated the degree to which they would change in the future, even though they knew how much they had changed in the past.
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So he starts by measuring the speed at which his subjects, vertigo patients all, actually register motion.
The college, which teaches subjects such as agriculture, business, equine management and food production, is the oldest of its kind in the English-speaking world, dating back to 1845.
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The lie which those subjects are asked to tell is a small one: they have to persuade Dr Langleben, or one of his assistants, that they are holding a particular playing card when often they are actually holding a different one.
Christian texts in Arabic (or in some cases, Greek and Arabic side by side) provide tantalising evidence of the process by which Christian subjects of the fast-growing Muslim empire began to worship, and theologise, in the language of their new political masters.
The new measure is already being dubbed "the best eight" because it would measure pupils' performance in eight GCSE subjects, which have to include English and maths, three English Baccalaureate subjects and three others.
Two other important examples are cars and drugs, which are the subjects of the next two articles.
The French education establishment, and its 1m-strong teaching body, is filled with powerful lobbies, which fiercely defend subjects, teachers, students and other corporatist interests.
Children tend to opt for subjects which offer a better chance of high grades, says one chemistry teacher, who asked not to be named.
But issues of conversion are also painful in some former territories of the British empire, which allowed its subjects to follow their own communal laws.
"Through the English Baccalaureate, we want to make sure all pupils have the chance to study the core academic subjects which universities and employers demand, " he said.
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This meant, said the complaint, that the data used for Street View came under Data Protection legislation which requires that subjects give permission before information is gathered.
Their crime was spot fixing, which means manipulating certain events in the game which in themselves are not critical to the outcome of the match, but which are popular subjects for betting.
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And there are some subjects which, however central to the workings of democracy, people will not pay attention to: it takes a lot, for instance, to make the British care about anything to do with Brussels.
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