Writing a college essay is a rite of passage for many students applying to attend a college or university in the United States. Although each institution has its own application requirements, most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education from the inside out. Nearly half of the college applicants who used the Common Application this year ...

Children in Southwest Brooklyn are being asked to put on their thinking caps and come up with ideas on how to stop their fellow New Yorkers from littering. And if the kids do a good job, they’ll win ...

The glow from the laptop reflects off his forehead as he stares at the screen, paralyzed by panicked perfectionism. The Common Application essay prompts are neatly copied onto the blank document, ...

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In lots of subjects across the school (not just English), you will be asked to write a variety of different types of essay. Once you are clear about the type of writing that you have been asked to ...

(i) Write a letter to Postmaster as you are not at home and your Cheque Book returned. (ii) Write a letter to senior telling how your Junior is misbehaving with everyone. (iii) Write a letter to the ...

(i) There is a negative marking for every wrong answer given by the candidates in the Objective Tests. One-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to a question will be a deduction for wrong answers.

When the Gospel Topics essays began to quietly appear seven years ago on the website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I learned about them only because of the job I have and the ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...