SECONDARY SCHOOL
ISB Career Counseling Service Department introduces new Aptitude Tests for ISB students
ISB
Career Counseling Service Department introduces new Aptitude Tests for ISB students ISB Career Counseling Service Department is happy to announce that is now offering three different types of Aptitude Tests for its students. The Aptitude Tests will help our students to make the best decision when choosing their options for IGCSE, A Levels and University Courses. We are collaborating with Cambridge Occupational Analysts (COA), an organization who has worked with more than 3,000 schools in the UK and over 50 countries across the globe for over 25 years. COA delivers a fully comprehensive range of careers and higher education programmes including aptitude tests. The surveys will be offered to our year 9-13 students to help them with their choices for the following year. Probe (Year 9) Probe is a fully illustrated online programme designed to be used by careers advisers in the classroom with year 9 students. It is a very useful introduction to careers work and provides students with their own worksheets to encourage research. It will be offered to all ISB students free of charge. Preview (Years 10, 11) service will be optional for Year 10 and 11 students for a fee of 75 €. Preview is a careers guidance programme
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designed for students likely to take AS/A level, It is normally taken by students at the end of Year 10 or the beginning of Year 11 and is based on an interest questionnaire (online). Preview analyses individual student responses and produces an Interest Profile based on over 40 broad career areas. Centrigrade (Years 12, 13) service will be optional for year 10 and 11 students for a fee of 40 €. Centigrade is an interest-based questionnaire often taken in year 12 using information supplied by the school and the student. It matches a student’s interests and abilities with HE courses and institutions in the UK, Ireland and those in Europe offering undergraduate degrees taught in English. Each student receives a personalized workbook listing relevant HE courses and institutions. Additional sections cover information on open days, taster courses and the application process. The Centigrade workbook includes course analysis forms which provide a starting point and structure for students to carry out research into their choice of HE course. A letter has been sent home by e-mail to all Year 9-13 parents. For further information, please contact Mr. Ahmet Dundar at ahmet.dundar@isb.ro. Mr. Ahmet Dundar, Spanish Language Teacher & Head of Alumni Department