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My PRINCE2 Agile Foundation exam is just a week away, and I'm feeling overwhelmed. What’s the best way to prepare effectively and pass on the first attempt with confidence?

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hey so I'm still in middle school (I'm moving up to high school soon) but I do want to practice with some online SAT tests just to get a feel of it and I want to know if I can find any good sites with …

I'm a rising sophomore as of right now, and I want to improve my chances of getting into a T20. I have a 4.0 and I want to study Engineering, but my school only offers 2 APs in senior year (AP Lang an …

how many colleges/universities should I apply for in my senior year of high school? would it be risky to just apply to 1

“Don’t aspire to be considered important. Aspire to be someone others feel grateful for. Recognition follows good actions.”

These words from my mother, spoken years ago, became a turning point in my li …

Hi all. This story won't make any sense, but I'll give it a shot! So I applied to a college that was marked for me as a hard target school on my list. I was under review and days later, they reached …

Im curious if someone could get into Florida State University with a lower GPA but High SAT score? I hear that they are test heavy so I wonder if this has influence. I have a lower gpa that is 3.1 unw …

i dropped out of highschool when my family went through a violent divorce and i had to choose a family member to live with i lost motivation in school and got a minimum wage job and ended up starting …

I'm currently a Sophomore and have been doing poorly academically my whole life. I really want to get into Cornell College but my GPA isn't the greatest due to some personal issues in my life and not …

I'm a freshman in high school and wanted to take some summer classes to hopefully earn some credit, build up my resume/application, and just keep myself busy during the summer, because I'm going abroa …

Hello, I am a week off from going into the summer before my senior year and have been trying to stay prepared as possible for applying to colleges. I was wondering if you think I would get in as an ou …

I'm currently preparing for the HPE6-A86 – Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA) exam, and I’m looking for effective preparation strategies. I’d like to hear from anyone who has recently passed t …

Hello, I am a rising senior and for the longest time my top two dream schools have been Yale and UPenn. I honestly just want the bare truth on what my chances are looking like. I have a 4.6 Unweighted …

I am a Junior this year, and I got a C in AP Calculus AB this year and the same in AP Physics C Mechanics. One teacher taught both. He was really bad, and family issues made it worse. I have a 3.9 GPA …

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I am applying for Rice University in the fall, and want to make sure my resume represents me, not just as a student, but as a person. I was thinking about starting a passion project or a small busines …

I'm applying to Yale next November, and I'm coming up on my senior year. I skipped a year so I have a choice between three math classes; Pre calculus, Physics, and Algebra 2. While I'm not bad at math …

I’m a 10th grade student from Malaysia and I’m taking IGCSE next year, I mainly want to focus on strengthening my extracurricular this year but I’m not sure how to do it. My interest is in medicine, m …

Okay so I took Spanish 1 at my local junior college, and I’m taking Spanish 2 this summer. My school says those two semesters count for 3 years of Spanish total, and I was wondering if anyone thought …