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Discover how the National Biblical Greek Exam can benefit you.

If you are a professor of Greek, you can effortlessly add another dimension to your class. The National Biblical Greek Exam can motivate your students to review the basics on their own time and automatically evaluates their progress. The exam takes care of all exam preparation and grading. You can simply log on and view your students' results. Further, the exam evaluates the performance of individual students as well as your entire class in specific grammatical areas. This information helps you quickly direct your students without spending time figuring out where they are struggling.

In addition to specific scores, the National Biblical Greek Exam provides you with customizable rankings with which you can compare the performance of your class with others. You can even compare your students with those using the same textbook.

These benefits and many more (such as customizable exams) are now available for you. Such tools enable you to get more done in class by moving some assessment and review to your students' own time. Remember the tests are automatically prepared and graded so there is no additional work for you.

Now you can have the online technological power of the National Biblical Greek Exam start working for you. Sign your class up today to start tracking the improvement of your class and the fruit of your labor.

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General Benefits

1) See how well your class ranks.
After your students take the exam you can evaluate your class performance and see how it compares with other classes. With its popularity at the 2003 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) annual convention and scheduled presentation in 2005 (See you there) the NBGE is gaining wide acceptance.

2) See strengths and weaknesses of your class.
The exam provides detailed analysis that shows you exactly where your class is strong and where you can focus on review. Since you can instantly compare the performances of individual students in several grammatical areas, the NBGE offers a higher degree of specific analysis than is traditionally feasible.

3) Students are motivated to review on their own time.
The dynamic generation of the exam enables students to take the exam as often as they wish without seeing the same exam twice. Students see what they need to review and can repeat the exam until they are satisfied with their performance.

4) The NBGE automatically generates and grades your own personal tests and quizzes.
After you enter questions into your account, you can instruct the NBGE to dynamically generate customized tests for your students. This is a great way to hold students accountable for reviewing outside of class. You can log on at any time and see which students have taken any of your exams and how well they performed. You can have tests generated from your personal question bank, which will grow as you add questions year after year.

5) It is text independent.
The exam is not married to one textbook. It attempts to use grammatical terms that are widely accepted and integrate questions from many different instructors. However, you do have the option to rank your class among other classes that use the same textbook.

Intermediate Greek Benefits

Even though the NBGE currently only offers one form of the national exam that covers the basics, nevertheless it is a great tool for your intermediate class.

1) It is a great kick-start to a second year course after summer vacation.

Students often have difficulty getting back into Greek after a summer break. The NBGE can help prepare your students to make the most of your intermediate course right from the first week. Simply let it be known that you will require students to take the NBGE in the first week of classes and that you highly recommend that they take it a few times before school begins so they can submit their best score. The NBGE will hold your students accountable for reviewing the basics and you will have more time to teach intermediate material.

2) Have your students review the basics outside of class so you can invest valuable class time on intermediate material.

You can assign the exam to your students each term (or even multiple times each term) as an accountability and learning tool for reviewing the basics. The students who don't need the review complete the assignment very quickly but the students who do need the review, find out what they need to study and can retake the exam, all outside of class. This leaves more time for you to focus on intermediate material in class and provides one more mechanism to keep students from slipping through the cracks.

3) It is a readymade placement or entrance exam.

Instead of spending time writing and grading a placement exam for someone who may only be flirting with the idea of entering your intermediate course, why not simply have them take the NBGE and send you their results? The NBGE can quickly and easily give you an idea if the student is serious. This works especially well when incorporated with the recommendation in #1 above. You simply could have everyone (continuing and new students) take the NBGE at the beginning of the course. Not only will it help you place students correctly, but it will catch problems early giving you time to address them before they become major issues.

Cost

There are a few methods of payment for the exam. One of our main goals is to keep the cost of the exam as low as possible (e.g., free custom exams). As we have added a considerable amount of new features and are expecting a few technical hiccups this year, we are keeping the price per student very low. Our long-term goal is to keep the cost as low as possible to encourage the greatest participation.

Unlimited School License.
Schools or instructors can purchase a School License for an academic year. Many schools recover this expense by charging the students a minimal course fee. A class license allows the students to take the NBGE as often as they wish within the academic year. The license fees are determined by the number of individual students who will be able to take the NBGE during the year no matter how many Greek courses they enroll in.

Here is the fee structure:

$150 for up to 10 students
$250 for up to 20 students
$300 for up to 30 students
$400 for up to 50 students
$480 for up to 60 students
$640 for up to 80 students
$800 for up to 100 students

$8 per student over 100

Limited Exam Passes
If the school only wants to cover the first exam and let students pay the half price retake fee, initial exam passes are available at 25% off the normal price per exam (There must be five or more students in the class.)

Students Pay Directly (with group discount)
If the school would rather have students individually pay for their own exams, the NBGE can make it so every student in the instructor's class can purchase the first exam at the group rate (25% off) and purchase retakes at half off the regular price.

Once you decide which plan is right for you, please contact the NBGE to make necessary arrangements.