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  2. British Summer Time - Wikipedia

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    Pale colours: Standard time observed all year Dark colours: Summer time observed During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more.

  3. British degree abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The MAs from Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews are considered bachelor's level qualifications on the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications and first cycle qualifications under the Bologna Process, while the Oxbridge MAs are considered "not academic qualifications" (the actual qualification being the BA).

  4. The three Rs - Wikipedia

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    The three Rs [1] are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic", Reading, wRiting, and ARithmetic [2] or Reckoning. The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century.

  5. BST - Wikipedia

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    BST, Bst or bst may refer to: Time zones. Bangladesh Standard Time, the time zone of Bangladesh, at UTC+6:00; Bering Standard Time, a former timezone of Alaska, ...

  6. Schaffer method - Wikipedia

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    The Jane Schaffer method is a formula for essay writing that is taught in some U.S. middle schools and high schools.Developed by a San Diego teacher named Jane Schaffer, who started offering training and a 45-day curriculum in 1995, it is intended to help students who struggle with structuring essays by providing a framework.

  7. Academic writing - Wikipedia

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    Academic style has often been criticized for being too full of jargon and hard to understand by the general public. [11] [12] In 2022, Joelle Renstrom argued that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on academic writing and that many scientific articles now "contain more jargon than ever, which encourages misinterpretation, political spin, and a declining public trust in the ...

  8. List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.

  9. Holistic grading - Wikipedia

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    Cost. In the 1980s, when examinations were often scored entirely by humans, valid and reliable holistic scoring of a writing sample took more time and therefore more money than scoring of items. For instance, it cost $0.75 per essay for the first and $0.53 for the second in the 1980-1981 Georgia Regents' Testing Program. [62]