the cannes academy offers a prep course. what do you think about it?> my view on testing i there's nothing inherently good or evil about a test. it's a matt of howt is used. if someone uses an s.a.t. score to be the defining number of who they are, then that is a very bad use of an s.a.t. but if it's used as a dimension of -- you look at wholistically, the student grades, extracurricular, essays they write it could be interesting for folks to look at and the value it provides to colleges- i'm not an admissions officer and i talk but kids go to high schools around the world and they might -- that's aou rig place so if they have a high gp i can knowhat it means. for other places i don't know how hard it is to achieve the things so things li s.a.t. give a signal -- not a perfect signal. no assessment -- in fact no dimension, none of the things are perfect but in aggregate they could help indicate what a ent -- how ready they might be. >> all right. let's talk more specifical about the academy because you have more than 100 million uge worldwide and that's

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