Career and Salaries Category
Colleges
Potential
VOCAB & News Article
Miscellaneous
100
Job; a source for earning ones income
What is an occupation?
100
Institute of higher learning
What is college or university?
100
Capable of being but not yet realized; all College Bound students have this
What is potential?
100
Reading comprehension strategy acronym
What is SQ3R?
100
Bachelors
What is the degree attained from a four-year university?
200
Getting paid; compensation for working
What is a salary?
200
While this standardized test is essential it is not an indicator of ultimate success
What is the SAT?
200
In order to accomplish things one must set these for himself or herself
What is goals?
200
how to achieve creating a proper homework location, and how to identify and avoid distractions that can prevent students from performing at a high level.
What is Optimal Study Environment?
200
Puberty worksheet
What is our homework for this class for next week?
300
High school diploma, college degree, and law degree
What is the education and training necessary to become a lawyer?
300
It is through this forum that an individual can let the admissions committee know who he or she is
What is the personal essay or personal statement?
300
In order to overcome obstacles, which we all face, an individual must…
What is eliminate excuses?
300
“In another study, Dr. James is comparing children who physically form letters with those who only watch others doing it. Her observations suggest that it is only the actual effort that engages the brain’s motor pathways and delivers the learning benefits of handwriting..”
What is - “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades” – NY Times?
300
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
What is the date of our next parent workshop?
400
Judge, doctor, and lawyer are just three examples of high paying careers; what is the main thing that all three have in common (what makes them high paying jobs)?
What is they all require advanced degrees and educational training?
400
If you attend a poorly ranked high school, list two things that you can do to improve your chances of getting into a “competitive” college
What is good grades, high SAT scores, high class ranking, participation in extracurricular activities. More than being average?
400
To have a fixed opinion about who an individual is, based on generalization made about a group the individual is associated with
What is a prejudice or a stereotype?
400
“That is the political landscape in which Barack Obama now strives to salvage a positive legacy for his presidency. He continues to try to dig the country out of the black hole he inherited, with barely more than two years to go before he departs the Oval Office.”
What is - “A black hole in U.S. history” – Baltimore Sun?
400
2135-2300 average
What is the SAT range for the top 25 colleges in the nation?
500
Salary before taxes
What is gross earnings?
500
$12,500
What is the average difference in salary between someone with a college degree and someone without?
500
It is a commonly held stereotype that some people are made smart, and others are made athletic. Given that argument, intelligence and athleticism are a function of…
What is genetics?
500
a plan for your future income and expenditures that you can use as a guideline for spending and saving
What is budgeting?
500
Columbia University, Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT., University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Texas at Austin., Brown University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Rutgers University
What is (some of the 50) top rated colleges and universities in the nation/country?
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