...| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Home | | | | Introduction | | | | Validity of NAT Study | | | | NAT Associated Universities | | | | NAT Schedule | | | | Districts List | | | | How to Register | | | | Registration Form (PDF) | | | | Test Day Instructions | | | | Paper Pattern | | | | User Guide | | | | Contact Us | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NAT Paper Pattern and Questions Distribution | | | National Aptitude Test (NAT) will be conducted in two categoriesCategory One:Six types of paper for candidates having 12 years educationCategory Two:Five types of paper for candidates having 14 years education CATEGORY ONE (For candidates having 12 years education) | | Test Type | Number of Questions | | | English | Analytical | Quantitative | Subject | Total | 1. | NAT-IE, Having 12 years/equal Education in Pre-Engineering Group | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 90 | | -> NAT-IE Paper Distribution | 2. | NAT-IM, Having 12 years/equal Education in Pre-Medical Group | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 90 | | -> NAT-IM Paper Distribution | 3. | NAT-IA, Having 12 years/equal Education in Arts Group | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 90 | | -> NAT-IA Paper Distribution | 4. | NAT-ICS, Having 12 years/equal Education in Computer Science | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 90 | | -> NAT-ICS Paper Distribution | 5. | NAT-IGS, Having 12 years/equal Education in General Science | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 90 | | ->...
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...501 Word Analogy Questions 501 Word Analogy Questions ® N E W YO R K Copyright © 2002 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 501 word analogy questions / LearningExpress.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-422-1 1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Vocabulary—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1591 .A24 2002 428.1'076—dc21 2002006843 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First Edition ISBN 1-57685-422-1 For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com The LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team is comprised of experts in test preparation, as well as educators and teachers who specialize in language arts and math. LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team Brigit Dermott Freelance Writer English Tutor, New York Cares New York, New York Sandy Gade Project Editor LearningExpress New York, New York Kerry McLean Project Editor Math Tutor Shirley, New York William Recco Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Shoreham/Wading River School District Math Tutor St. James, New York Colleen Schultz Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Vestal Central School District ...
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...cemetery a storefront window a street that leads to your home or school a treasured belonging a vase of flowers a waiting room a work table an accident scene an art exhibit an ideal apartment an inspiring view an item left too long in your refrigerator an unusual room backstage during a play or a concert the inside of a spaceship the scene at a concert or athletic event your dream house your favourite food your ideal roommate your memory of a place that you visited as a child your old neighbourhood (2) Narration At least one of the topics below may remind you of a particular incident that you can relate in a clearly organised narrative essay. a brush with death a brush with greatness a dangerous experience a day when everything went right (or wrong) a disastrous date a frightening experience a historic event a memorable encounter with someone in authority a memorable journey a memorable wedding or funeral a moment of failure or success a rebellious act a significant misunderstanding a strange job interview a time that you took a...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 63 (2005) 436–451 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs Developing creativity, motivation, and self-actualization with learning systems Winslow Burlesonà MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Available online 10 May 2005 Abstract Developing learning experiences that facilitate self-actualization and creativity is among the most important goals of our society in preparation for the future. To facilitate deep understanding of a new concept, to facilitate learning, learners must have the opportunity to develop multiple and flexible perspectives. The process of becoming an expert involves failure, as well as the ability to understand failure and the motivation to move onward. Meta-cognitive awareness and personal strategies can play a role in developing an individual’s ability to persevere through failure, and combat other diluting influences. Awareness and reflective technologies can be instrumental in developing a meta-cognitive ability to make conscious and unconscious decisions about engagement that will ultimately enhance learning, expertise, creativity, and self-actualization. This paper will review diverse perspectives from psychology, engineering, education, and computer science to present opportunities to enhance creativity, motivation, and self-actualization in learning systems. r 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Creativity; Learning systems; Psychology; Failure; Motivation Education...
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...and widely used flavor enhancer. Others use milk for practical applications at home. Everyone knows milk and its use at home and commerce is vast and extensive. However, its most basic utility is to provide nutrition. The following discussions describe the job of milk, specifically cow’s milk, using Clay Christensen’s milkshake analogy and explain the role of marketing in affecting consumer behavior by using strategies to attract target markets. The job of milk Breakfast usually involves food and milk. At the morning table, people use milk as a beverage to complement cereal, an additive to coffee, a simple refreshment to break the evening fast, or a complete source of protein for most. Using Clay Christensen’s model, people hire milk to satisfy hunger upon waking up in the morning, add flavor to other foods or drinks, and provide nutrition to men, women, and children who need calcium, vitamin D, protein, and other essential nutrients. Throughout the day, people hire milk to perform the jobs mentioned without limitation to time or place. Milk is convenient and it gets the job of keeping people healthy, feeling full, and refreshed throughout the day. Additionally, during lunch or dinner time, people hire milk for cooking. Anyone who cooks may require milk to improve the flavor of a dish, add texture, and thicken the consistency of the food. Milk performs a function and that is why people buy milk. However, milk also satisfies other jobs...
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...Credit Cards, Excess Debt, and the Time Value of Money: The Parable of the Debt Banana Timothy Falcon Crack and Helen Roberts University of Otago, New Zealand The parable of the debt banana is an analogy between the accumulation of excess personal debt and the accumulation of excess body weight. We created this parable to grab student attention and to then serve as a springboard for discussion of personal debt, time value of money mathematics, the mechanics of credit cards, personal bankruptcy, moral hazard, ethics, and credit card reform. A follow-up survey in a large class (453 students; 84% response rate) showed that 92% of students seeing the parable alongside the underlying finance principles said that it grabbed their attention more than if the underlying finance principles alone were presented, and 87% of students said it made an impression upon them that will make them more careful in their future credit card spending habits. We provide worked examples of credit card use as well as a spreadsheet that lets readers explore these examples and perform sensitivity analysis. INTRODUCTION The parable of the debt banana is an analogy between the accumulation of excess personal debt and the accumulation of excess body weight. We created and presented our parable in a compulsory Finance 101 course taken by all business majors. Most students had little or no exposure to the world of finance and many had poor mathematical skills. Both their lack of financial...
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...of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RI.8.10]WRITING STANDARDS: RANGE OF WRITING Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. [L.8.3]VOCABULARY ACQUISTION AND USE Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. [L.8.6]SPEAKING AND LISTENING STANDARDS Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on Grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. [SL.8.1a,b,c,d] | Students, with scaffolding as needed: * read and actively engage in comprehending appropriately complex stories and poetryStudents, with scaffolding as needed: * read and...
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...Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud Introduction As Wall Street specialists in valuation, sell-side securities analysts constitute a particularly important class of market actor.1 Analysts produce the reports, recommendations and price targets that professional investors utilize to inform their buy and sell decisions, which means that understanding analysts’ work can provide crucial insights on the determinants of value in the capital markets. Yet our knowledge of analysts is limited by insufficient attention to Knightian uncertainty. Analysts estimate the value of stocks by calculating their net present value or by folding the future back into the present. In so doing, they are faced with the fundamental challenge identified by Frank Knight, that is, with the difficulty of making decisions that entail a future that is unknown. These decisions, as Knight wrote, are characterized by ‘neither entire ignorance nor complete . . . information, but partial knowledge’ of the world (Knight, [1921] 1971: 199). The finance literature has not examined the Knightian challenge faced by analysts. Indeed, existing treatments circumvent the problem by adopting one of two extreme positions. In the first, put forward by orthodox economists, it is assumed that Knightian uncertainty is non-existent and that calculative decision-making is straightforward. Analysts are presented as mere calculators in a probabilistic world...
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...MANAGING FOR THE LONG TERM | BEST OF HBR | November–December 1991 The Knowledge-Creating Company by Ikujiro Nonaka Editor’s Note: This 1991 article helped popularize the notion of “tacit” knowledge – the valuable and highly subjective insights and intuitions that are difficult to capture and share because people carry them in their heads. Years later, the piece can still startle a reader with its views of organizations and of the types of knowledge that inform them. For example, the advice on how to distill objective and transferable, or “explicit,” knowledge from tacit knowledge – with a vivid illustration of Matsushita Electric’s efforts to build a better bread-making machine – is both arresting and actionable. The next step: ensuring that explicit knowledge is translated back into tacit knowledge that will then go on to yield yet another innovative solution. 162 Harvard Business Review 1284 Nonaka.indd 162 | July–August 2007 I the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. When markets shift, technologies proliferate, competitors multiply, and products become obsolete almost overnight, successful companies are those that consistently create new knowledge, disseminate it widely throughout the organization, and quickly embody it in new technologies and products. These activities define the “knowledge-creating” company, whose sole business is continuous innovation. And yet, despite all the talk about “brainpower”...
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...1. Email communication A. is characterized by low control. B. is characterized by little coordination. C. is a rich communication medium D. incurs high cost Correct: The Correct Answer is: B. 1 Concept: PLANNING BUSINESS MESSAGES Mastery 100% Questions 2 3 2. Which of the following is the first step in the AIM planning process for developing influential messages? A. Idea development B. Message structuring C. Audience analysis D. Message review Correct: The Correct Answer is: C. 3. In the context of the AIM planning process, which of the following tends to be the single most important planning step for many messages? A. Identifying reader benefits and constraints B. Making the message easy to navigate C. Estimating your credibility D. Ensuring the communication is fair Correct: The Correct Answer is: A. Concept: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Mastery 100% Questions 4 5 6 4. George, the marketing manager at Regal, believes that an employee should always act ethically and should also report instances of unethical behavior that he encounters. This belief held by George is an example of a(n): A. bias B. prejudice C. prototype D. value Correct: The Correct Answer is: D. 5. Which of the following is most likely to have a negative impact on your readers' perceptions of your credibility?...
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...1. Email communication A. is characterized by low control. B. is characterized by little coordination. C. is a rich communication medium D. incurs high cost Correct: The Correct Answer is: B. 1 Concept: PLANNING BUSINESS MESSAGES Mastery 100% Questions 2 3 2. Which of the following is the first step in the AIM planning process for developing influential messages? A. Idea development B. Message structuring C. Audience analysis D. Message review Correct: The Correct Answer is: C. 3. In the context of the AIM planning process, which of the following tends to be the single most important planning step for many messages? A. Identifying reader benefits and constraints B. Making the message easy to navigate C. Estimating your credibility D. Ensuring the communication is fair Correct: The Correct Answer is: A. Concept: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION Mastery 100% Questions 4 5 6 4. George, the marketing manager at Regal, believes that an employee should always act ethically and should also report instances of unethical behavior that he encounters. This belief held by George is an example of a(n): A. bias B. prejudice C. prototype D. value Correct: The Correct Answer is: D. 5. Which of the following is most likely to have a negative impact on your readers' perceptions of your credibility?...
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...Instructor: Dr. Olga S. Gerhart Sections Office: Arts and Humanities 273 02 MWF 8:45-9:35 SBSC 121 E-Mail: gerhartos@utpa.edu 03 MWF 10:45-11:35 PHYS 1.119 Mailbox: Arts and Humanities 342 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays: 9:45am – 10:35am and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION The primary objective of this course is to teach good reasoning, which in turn will help you make important decisions about what to believe and how to act. The core of your critical thinking skills is your ability to detect, generate, and evaluate reasons given in support of some conclusion. This conclusion might be a new belief, a change in plans, or a confirmation of the old belief. The technical term for a set of reasons plus their intended conclusion is “argument.” Thus the central topic of this course is argumentation. Critical thinking skills are not peculiar to philosophy but are applicable to a variety of academic subjects. Moreover, critical thinking skills are crucial to the fulfillment of the responsibilities you have in virtue of your roles as a citizen, parent, child, employee, and consumer. To develop critical thinking skills, students will be expected to participate actively in class activities and discussions. Time in class will be devoted in the main to practice, not to lecture. In short, you will learn by doing. REQUIRED TEXTS Authors: David R. Morrow and Anthony Weston Title: A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking Edition: 2011 Publisher: Hackett Publishing...
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...A Summary of “Crossing the Chasm” By Jonathan S. Linowes, Parker Hill Technology Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customer (revised edition), HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1999 The high-tech marketing guru (and principle of The Chasm Group marketing consultants), Geoffrey Moore offers time tested insights into the problems and dangers facing growing software companies, and a blueprint for survival. This classic text (first published in 1991) is widely accepted as “the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets.” For the benefit of the reader, while I do not presume to do justice to Moore's book, I attempt to summarize key points here: !" market is defined as A #"a set of actual or potential customers #"for a given set of products or services #"who have a common set of needs or wants, and #"who reference each other when making a buying decision The final point may be the least intuitive, but Moore says, "the notion that part of what defines a high-tech market is the tendency of its members to reference each other when making buying decisions-- is absolutely key to successful high-tech marketing." Many business plans are based on a traditional Technology Adoption Life Cycle, a smooth bell curve of high tech customers, progressing from Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and finally Laggards. In turn, this model becomes the foundation for...
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...Logic—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Reasoning—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. Critical thinking—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) II. Title: 501 challenging logic and reasoning problems. III. Series. BC108.A15 2006 160'.76—dc22 2005057953 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Second Edition ISBN 1-57685-534-1 For information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS ANSWERS vii 1 99 v Introduction his book—which can be used alone, with other logic and reasoning texts of your choice, or in combination with LearningExpress’s Reasoning Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day—will give you practice dealing with the types of multiple-choice questions that appear on standardized tests assessing logic, reasoning, judgment, and critical thinking. It is designed to be used by individuals working on their own and by teachers or tutors helping students learn, review, or practice basic logic and reasoning skills. Practice on 501 logic and reasoning questions will go a long way in alleviating test anxiety, too! Maybe you’re one of the millions of people who, as students in elementary or high school, never understood the necessity of having to read opinion essays and draw conclusions from the...
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...i TEST IQ boost your brainpower 2nd edition YOUR 400 questions to Philip Carter London and Philadelphia ii Whilst the author has made every effort to ensure that the content of this book is accurate, please note that occasional errors can occur in books of this kind. If you suspect that an error has been made in any of the tests included in this book, please inform the publishers at the address printed below so that it can be corrected at the next reprint. Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or the author. First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2000 by Kogan Page Limited Reprinted 2001, 2004 Reissued 2007 Reprinted 2007 Second edition 2009 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued...
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