Word: exam
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Taking one more A.P. exam does not clearly prepare a student any more for sophomore standing, Herrnstein said. "We are not trying to discover whether someone is virtuous but whether he is a sophomore" he added
...failed to supply the tickets to 250 of some 350 Harvard students registered to take the exam, Ginn said...
John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the Faculty, said yesterday this date applies to the date permission for the make-up exam was granted, not the date the exam is taken...
...Steve Solomon, who drafted the bill for NYPIRG, "this bill could totally change the way tests are used." By forcing the test companies to release each corrected test to the student who took it, test opponents say the bill will expose the bases and inadequacies of the standardized exam. It applies to all mass tests except the specialized achievement and AP exams, and also forces ETS to release the results of all their studies on the accuracy of the tests...
Beyond threatening to limit the tests, the other ETS response was to warn that test prices might increase. The reason, besides having to mail out the corrected tests, is that once the exams were avaialble for all to see, the College Board would have to think up new questions for every exam. "Questions are expensive to come up with," John Smith, media relations director for ETS, said last summer when the bill first passed...