Interviewing other learners can help adult students start a new program with confidence. This lesson plan uses essential skills to introduce a fun icebreaker.

Sometimes in your academic career, you will find yourself having to interview experts in a field or subjects in a study. It is a good idea to plan your interview early so that you will be able to ask for all the needed information. If you show the person you are interviewing that you are serious and sure about your subject, you will get better information.

The first stage in making sure you do well in a college interview (or any other interview for that matter) is to go through the 'Get Ready' stage. This is where you do the hard yards in terms of preparation. Just like studying for tests, it is no good leaving everything until the last minute and then race into an interview situation unprepared. Here's what you need to do:

Plan what needs to be written and presented and be sure to do it early. Do you have an essay or personal reflective piece of writing to prepare and submit? Then be sure to do it well ahead of time, and save it to your computer hard drive and a memory stick as well as printing out a hard copy. Then if something happens to your computer, you still have a printed copy that you can scan or retype as needed.

Prepare your clothes for the big day. Think 'casual, but dressed to impress' in the same combination. Nothing revealing, nothing too fancy, just neat, well cut and tidy.

The relevant interviewees may turn out to be experts in the subject being researched. Or they may turn out to be ordinary people who have been affected by the subject under study, and who as such have much to say about it. Either way, there are several things to do, if you are to succeed with the interview.

Schools vary widely in the importance placed on interviews. Some require an interview as part of the admissions process, some make it optional, and some don’t offer it at all. Just how important are interviews anyway, and how should you view them?

Learning at work is a great way to fit learning into your life, and could help improve your career prospects. Your employer may already provide learning opportunities – if not, see if they would consider getting involved in an employee training scheme.

You know that your written record—test scores, GPA, and even your list of extracurricular activities—doesn’t tell the whole story of who you are right now and what kind of person you might become. For that reason, colleges request subjective information as well: letters from people who know you, essays, and in some cases, an interview.

Adults who are searching for a fulfilling hobby or a service project to benefit the community should consider becoming volunteer adult literacy tutors.

Job training can be delivered in a number of ways and ‘on the job’ training is just one of several ways in which a company might choose to deliver the skills and knowledge it requires to its workforce.

What is the SAT test? The SAT Reasoning Test (formally the Scholastic Aptitude Tests for Reasoning) is a standardized test for United States college admissions. The College Board, a nonprofit organization, owns, publishes, and develops the SAT. Once owned, published, and developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the SAT is administered by the ETS. The SAT was introduced in 1901. All colleges and universities accept the SAT.

Three timed sections, critical reading, writing, and mathematics, make up the SAT. Each section is worth 800 points, and total scoring can range from 600 to 2400. Subsections are scored separately. The test taker, usually a high school junior or senior, is given 3 hours and 45 minutes to complete the SAT.