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When you feel emotionally, physically, or spiritually empty or drained, do you ever ask yourself, is what I’m going through worth it? I know I do. You may have made a principled decision. You may have taken an unpopular stand because you wanted to honor God. You may, like the last line out of Robert…
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In my last article I presented seven tips for choosing the right answer when taking an achievement test. Most students might think this is all they need to do to ensure getting the best score possible. In other words, they think once they’ve reached the last item on the test, they can relax until the…
Thinking About Rescheduling Testing?
You could reschedule testing, but do you want to? Do you have to? Why would you? The reason for asking seems obvious. The coronavirus! One suggested option circulating among home schoolers is, if your examiner has canceled your exam, simply ask your examiner to reschedule. The problem with this suggestion is that any rescheduled date…
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Do you sometimes feel like you’re on the receiving end of a firehose of information that just never stops? That the only way to control it would be to cut off the flow, to turn it off? But, because we want the information, we “can’t” or don’t want to disengage so we find ourselves resorting…
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