Word: ceeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard states it Judges academic ability mainly on two criteria, CEEB board scores and the school record. Fifty per cent of Harvard sons score below 650 on the verbal SAT as compared to 18 per cent of the others. Forty-six per cent of the preppies scored below 650 while only 12 per cent of the others did. In Loewen's Sample 61 per cent of the alumni sons fell below Group 3 compared with 32 per cent of the others. For preppies the trend was weaker but still obvious. Nineteen pre cent were Group 2 as compared with...
...paper) have to "take and pass two full courses in a language to graduate from Harvard." They have to get 560 on the test we use at Harvard, which for French, German, and Spanish is the Modern Language Association Classroom Test, the scores of which are equated with the CEEB scores. How he upgrades his ability is a matter of his own choice. Some go to Europe. Most take a semester or more in our language department. No one has to "take and pass two full courses" unless he decides to begin at the beginning and can't make...
...names like "Exposition and Historical Inquiry" and "Exposition and Scientific Methods." Of the 250 enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...
...addition to moving the whole calendar of admissions procedures up a month, the College will ask secondary school seniors to take CEEB Achievement tests in December or January instead of in the customary March...
Multiple choice tests, which the CEEB employs extensively, have recently been criticized in Harper's as an inadequate measure of academic promise...