Word: exam
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McCarthy said the police chief and city manager appoint sergeants from a ranked list of qualified patrolmen. The Civil Service Department makes the list based on test score results. The exam has been given three times in the past 17 years. He said a name on the list can be skipped if the patrolman's performance is deemed unacceptable...
...highest-scoring black patrolman placed twentieth out of the 73 policemen who passed the exam, Beryl W. Cohen, attorney for the five plaintiffs, said yesterday...
...themselves. They had jimmied the principal's desk, stolen the key to the strongbox, and photostated the answer sheets. The copies were then sold at prices as high as $50 apiece. The two Solomon Schechter seniors were expelled from school; otherwise, all four got away from the great exam robbery scot free...
...early May, the commission came out with its findings: students at the review session had done about one-third of a grade better on the exam than those without the advantage. The commission called the discrepancy "unfortunate," but recommended no corrective action by the Faculty...
Last year the Medical Faculty replaced a five-year experiment in pass/fail grading with a four-point system for the pre-clinical years. First-year students this past fall, however, protested the change by refusing to sign exam books in key tests...