Registered student please find your "classroom" on YB's Essay Training Program forum. For each classroom, two parent helpers are assigned. Their names are listed as Moderator. They will be responsible for answering questions and score recording.

High School Classroom Parent Helper: Sam, Shark
Middle School Classroom Parent Helper: redMaple, May
Elementary School Classroom Parent Helper: yb001, lighting

Big thanks for all Judges and parent helpers!

If you have registered but haven't sign-in yet, you can go to YB's Home page and find the "register" button to sign-in. Please email us your user ID. The student enrollment numbers are much more than what we expected, however, we decided to give the opportunities to all the kids that are interested in the program. So, if you have sent your registration request before July 14th, you are admitted to the program.

Parents and students please note the Score Standard has been enhanced!

1. The top three essays are scored as 100, 90 and 80 respectively and others will be scored accordingly by the instructors;

2. For bonus point to the comments, each comment is given two points and total bonus points are not more than 50.

3. For the additional essay, each essay is given 20 bonus point and total bonus points are not more than 50.

4. The student's name of top three places for each week will be announced publicly; other student's score will be only emailed to individual student.

5. For the final contest, the point from this contest is 75% of your overall points, and the points from the six weeks before are 25% of your overall points. Only the top three’s scores will be announced in public, each individual student will get his/her final score through his/her email.

1. 指导老师评出头三名，分别给１００, ９０和８０分；

2. 孩子参评的， 每一篇评论给2 分. 总分不超过50；目的，鼓励孩子多阅读和学习评论

3. 为了鼓励写作，每周额外的写作，每一篇给20分，总分不超过50

4. 每周成绩只公开前3名，其他学生的成绩只通知学生本人。

5. 写作比赛，其写作分数占75%；前六周总成绩的累计分数占25%；评选出这次写作训练班的各年级组的前三名。最后比赛结果，只公布前三名的总成绩，其他学生的总成绩只通知学生本人。

6. 孩子参与评论，但不参加给分。

Program Schedule
1st Essay: 7/14/2006 -- 7/20/2006
2nd Essay: 7/21/2006 -- 7/27/2006
3rd Essay: 7/28/2006 -- 8/3/2006
4th Essay: 8/4/2006 -- 8/10/2006
5th Essay: 8/11/2006 -- 8/17/2006
6th Essay: 8/18/2005 -- 8/24/2006
Contest Essay: 8/25/2006 -- 8/31/2006
Announcement and Award for the Contest Winners: 9/4/2006

Get Ready!

The first essay topics have been posted in each classroom!