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Looking to improve your child's chances of success at the CSSE 11+ entrance exams? Look no further with these specially compiled set of English practice papers in the CSSE style for those parents wanting to provide their child with that extra focused practice. This A4, CSSE Style book contains:- Six English Papers covering Comprehension, Applied Reasoning and Continuous Writing- 120 Bonus Applied Reasoning questions, spanning 12 mini papers- A Creative Writing 11-point checklist to help children tick back what they should include in their creative writing- A Instruction Writing 10-point checklist to help children structure their 'instructional' writing- A Creative Writing mark criteria - to help parents score the creative writing pieces- A list of common literary devices with examples that each child should learn, as these have appeared in previous papers- Detailed answers for quick marking. Where relevant the answer references the line number in the reading text, so both adult and child and quickly locate answersUse the 'look inside' feature to view the format of the book and visit our website www.bgsbooks.com for more information.
Bond Assessment Papers for 9-10 years have been designed by Bond, the number 1 provider of 11+ practice materials. These books provide practice questions that begin to establish the core skills for success in English, Maths, Non-verbal Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning.
OpenGL ® ES TM is the industry’s leading software interface and graphics library for rendering sophisticated 3D graphics on handheld and embedded devices. The newest version, OpenGL ES 3.0, makes it possible to create stunning visuals for new games and apps, without compromising device performance or battery life. In the OpenGL® ESTM 3.0 Programming Guide, Second Edition, the authors cover the entire API and Shading Language. They carefully introduce OpenGL ES 3.0 features such as shadow mapping, instancing, multiple render targets, uniform buffer objects, texture compression, program binaries, and transform feedback. Through detailed, downloadable C-based code examples, you’ll learn how to set up and program every aspect of the graphics pipeline. Step by step, you’ll move from introductory techniques all the way to advanced per-pixel lighting and particle systems. Throughout, you’ll find cutting-edge tips for optimizing performance, maximizing efficiency with both the API and hardware, and fully leveraging OpenGL ES 3.0 in a wide spectrum of applications. All code has been built and tested on iOS 7, Android 4.3, Windows (OpenGL ES 3.0 Emulation), and Ubuntu Linux, and the authors demonstrate how to build OpenGL ES code for each platform. Coverage includes EGL API: communicating with the native windowing system, choosing configurations, and creating rendering contexts and surfaces Shaders: creating and attaching shader objects; compiling shaders; checking for compile errors; creating, linking, and querying program objects; and using source shaders and program binaries OpenGL ES Shading Language: variables, types, constructors, structures, arrays, attributes, uniform blocks, I/O variables, precision qualifiers, and invariance Geometry, vertices, and primitives: inputting geometry into the pipeline, and assembling it into primitives 2D/3D, Cubemap, Array texturing: creation, loading, and rendering; texture wrap modes, filtering, and formats; compressed textures, sampler objects, immutable textures, pixel unpack buffer objects, and mipmapping Fragment shaders: multitexturing, fog, alpha test, and user clip planes Fragment operations: scissor, stencil, and depth tests; multisampling, blending, and dithering Framebuffer objects: rendering to offscreen surfaces for advanced effects Advanced rendering: per-pixel lighting, environment mapping, particle systems, image post-processing, procedural textures, shadow mapping, terrain, and projective texturing Sync objects and fences: synchronizing within host application and GPU execution This edition of the book includes a color insert of the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and OpenGL ES Shading Language 3.0 Reference Cards created by Khronos. The reference cards contain a complete list of all of the functions in OpenGL ES 3.0 along with all of the types, operators, qualifiers, built-ins, and functions in the OpenGL ES Shading Language.
This book contains eight 11+ assessment papers based on traditional literature. The texts provide challenging sources for children who are in the last few months of preparation before taking the 11+ test or entrance examinations. The texts have been carefully chosen to give children exposure to richer vocabulary, which they may not naturally choose to read independently.CONTENTS: Introduction. Information for students book. Self-assessment. Progress Chart. 1 The Wind in the Willows. 2 The Swiss Family Robinson.3 Treasure Island. 4 The Call of the Wild. 5 The Case of the Speckled Band. 6 War of the Worlds. 7 A Christmas Carol. 8 Jane Eyre. Mark Scheme
Aimed particularly at parents in the CSSE region who want to help their child to achieve the 'magic score' which will result in them being allocated a place at their chosen selective school! In today's increasingly competitive society, preparation for the 11+ has become incredibly tough, whichever education authority area you live in. For these children, it involves studying many concepts that they will not have faced before. Many of the questions are extremely hard, and not all the elements of the exam can be fully prepared for; however, even in the areas of the country where they now claim the exams cannot be 'tutored', there are still many tools that you can give your children to help their preparation - and one of of those tools is a knowledge of the different aspects of Figurative Language. Introducing metaphors and similes, personification and pathetic fallacy, alliteration, idioms, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, irony and oxymoron in a way that they will be easily remembered, this book is a great introduction to Figurative Language for children from Upper Key Stage 2 to the end of Key Stage 3 (9 to 14 year olds)
Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.
