CRI听力:Launch of Edupath APP in China for SAT Examinees

The New Oriental Education and Technology Group has recently launched a new APP which is claimed able to help young Chinese students better tackle the SAT, a standardized test for college admissions in the United States.

The new APP is a joint achievement between the New Oriental company and an American company "Edupath" based in California.

Edupath CEO Michael Weiler has recently come to Beijing, explaining how they've developed this new app.

"By traditional standards, today's students are impatient, inattentive, and lack discipline. So we want to reach students, we have to reach them where they are. Edupath is designed to work in the same way that students use their phones; short sessions that they can do anywhere: on the bus, in a classroom, in between classes and before they go to bed. And we've seen a version of our US APP; our students regularly achieve scores improvements that are above and beyond what they can get in the classroom."

Fan Meng, (范猛) an official in charge of test preparation courses for the overseas exams in the New Oriental Education and Technology Group, has disclosed the new APP focuses more on students' practice, self-evaluation as well as matching them with a compatible university.

Fan also added the new app is not for free but costs 10 US dollars.

An earlier report from a Beijing-based education consultancy company shows that Chinese students now make up a quarter of all U.S college-level international school students. The number of Chinese enrolled in American undergraduate programs has seen a remarkable growth.