IELTS
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(Scholarship) British Council IELTS Scholarship 2010
British Council IELTS Scholarship 2010
The scholarship is offered by the British Council for Indian students planning to study at universities overseas. The British Council will select eight students from India, each of whom will receive an award of Rs 300,000 towards the cost of tuition fees
Application
Procedure:
- Take an IELTS test with the British Council and receive your scores.
- Last date for completed applications is 31 July 2010. You must complete selection Task.
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(Event) Harvard Business School's (HBS) 2+2 Program
About
HBS 2+2 Program:
- Venue : Harvard Business School, Boston
- By: Harvard Business School
- Important Dates : Deadline for Submission of Applications: June 15, 2010
- Eligibility : Final Year UnderGraduate
Harvard Business School has opened the doors on an innovative new program for college juniors. It's called HBS 2+2: two years of work, then two years of immersion in the Harvard Business School MBA Program. In order to be eligible for the 2+2 Program you must be a current college junior ( i.e. completed pre-final year and entering final year for Indian Students) with at least one remaining semester, after July 2010, necessary for the completion of your degree.
Students pursuing undergraduate degrees that are shorter or longer than 4 years are also eligible to apply. Students should apply the summer prior to their final year of study.
The HBS 2+2 Program application for the MBA class entering fall of 2013 consists of the following materials. All materials must be submitted online. Please assemble and prepare them to help us access your qualifications.
(IELTS 2010) Examination Dates of IELTS 2010 in India (Jan. - Dec. 2010)
Examination Dates of IELTS 2010 in India (Jan. - Dec. 2010)
(Tips) Tips To improve your IELTS Performance
Tips To improve your IELTS Performance
LISTENING
- Read instructions carefully, don’t just glance at them. They are not always the same as in practise or previous tests.
- Often the speaker will give you an answer and then correct themselves-watch out for this. It’s a common trick.
- Try and anticipate what the speaker will say. This requires concentration-easy in your own language, but more difficult in English.
- Remember if you want a high score you should aim to get all questions in parts one and two correct. Don’t make any careless mistakes in the easier sections.
- Although there are not that many IELTS books on the market other Cambridge exam preparation materials can provide valuable practise such as FCE and CAE preparation books.
- Small errors can lead to low score such as spelling, omitting 's' or incomplete times.
- Don’t panic if you think the topic is too difficult or the speaker is too fast. Relax and tune in.
- Read, write and listen at the same time. Tricky but practise!!
- Don’t leave blanks, you might as well guess you won’t be penalised.
(Pattern) IELTS Test Information And Test sample
IELTS Test Information And Test sample
1. Academic Reading sample
The Academic Reading test is 60 minutes long. It has three sections
with 40 questions to answer. Below is a sample of one section. (Note that
candidates for the Academic module do a different Reading test to the General
Training module.)
Wind Power in the US
Prompted by the oil crises of the 1970s, a wind-power industry flourished
briefly in the United States. But then world oil prices dropped, and funding for
research into renewable energy was cut. By the mid 1980s US interest in wind
energy as a large-scale source of energy had almost disappeared. The development
of wind power at this time suffered not only from badly designed equipment, but
also from poor long-term planning, economic projections that were too optimistic
and the difficulty of finding suitable locations for the wind turbines.
Only now are technological advances beginning to offer hope that wind power will
come to be accepted as a reliable and important source of electricity. There
have been significant successes in California, in particular, where wind farms
now have a capacity of 1500 megawatts, comparable to a large nuclear or
fossil-fuelled power station, and produce 1.5 per cent of the state's
electricity.
Nevertheless, in the U.S., the image of wind power is still distorted by early
failures. One of the most persistent criticisms is that wind power is not a
significant energy resource. Researchers at the Battelle Northwest Laboratory,
however, estimate that today wind turbine technology could supply 20 per cent of
the electrical power the country needs. As a local resource, wind power has even
greater potential. Minnesota's energy commission calculates that a wind farm on
one of the state's south western ridges could supply almost all that state's
electricity. North Dakota alone has enough sites suitable for wind farms to
supply more than a third of all electricity consumed in the continental US.
The prevailing notion that wind power is too costly results largely from early
research which focused on turbines with huge blades that stood hundreds of
metres tall. These machines were not designed for ease of production or
maintenance, and they were enormously expensive. Because the major factors
influencing the overall cost of wind power are the cost of the turbine and its
supporting systems, including land, as well as operating and maintenance costs,
it is hardly surprising that it was thought at the time that wind energy could
not be supplied at a commercially competitive price. More recent developments
such as those seen on California wind farms have dramatically changed the
economic picture for wind energy. These systems, like installations in Hawaii
and several European countries, have benefited from the economies of scale that
come through standardised manufacturing and purchasing. The result has been a
dramatic drop in capital costs: the installed cost of new wind turbines stood at
$1000 per kilowatt in 1993, down from about $4000 per kilowatt in 1980, and
continues to fall. Design improvements and more efficient maintenance programs
for large numbers of turbines have reduced operating costs as well. The cost of
electricity delivered by wind farm turbines has decreased from about 30 cents
per kilowatt-hour to between 7 and 9 cents, which is generally less than the
cost of electricity from conventional power stations. Reliability has also
improved dramatically. The latest turbines run more than 95 per cent of the
time, compared with around 60 per cent in the early 1980s. Another misconception
is that improved designs are needed to make wind power feasible. Out of the
numerous wind turbine designs proposed or built by inventors or developers, the
propeller-blade type, which is based on detailed analytical models as well as
extensive experimental data, has emerged as predominant among the more than
20,000 machines now in commercial operation world-wide. Like the gas-driven
turbines that power jet aircraft, these are sophisticated pieces of rotating
machinery. They are already highly efficient, and there is no reason to believe
that other configurations will produce major benefits. Like other ways of
generating electricity, wind power does not leave the environment entirely
unharmed. There are many potential problems, ranging from interference with
telecommunications to impact on wildlife and natural habitats. But these effects
must be balanced against those associated with other forms of electricity
generation. Conventional power stations impose hidden costs on society, such as
the control of air pollution, the management of nuclear waste and global
warming. As wind power has been ignored in the US over the past few years,
expertise and commercial exploitation in the field have shifted to Europe. The
European Union spends 10 times as much as the US government on research and
development of wind energy. It estimates that at least 10 per cent of Europe's
electrical power could be supplied by land-based wind-turbines using current
technology. Indeed, according to the American Wind Energy Association, an
independent organisation based in Washington, Denmark, Britain, Spain and the
Netherlands will each surpass the US in the generating capacity of wind turbines
installed during the rest of the decade.
Glossary
fossil fuel: coal, oil and natural gas kilowatt: 1,000 watts; a watt is a unit
of power kilowatt-hour: one kilowatt for a period of one hour megawatt: one
million watts wind farm: a group of wind turbines in one location producing a
large amount of electricity wind turbine: a machine which produces energy when
the wind turns its blades
Questions 1 - 5
Complete the summary below using words from the box. Write your answers in boxes
1-5 on your answer sheet.
(Info) List of IELTS Test Centre in India
List of IELTS Test Centre in India
IELTS has more than 500 test centres in over 120 countries. You can search for your nearest test centre by country and territories, and city. To find out upcoming test dates and the test fee, click on More Information under each city address.
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