Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average combined score on the two-part exam was 906--475 on the math section, 431 on the verbal--unchanged from the previous year, according to the College Board, which administers the test. The test is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 1600 being a perfect combined score...
South Dakota, where only three percent of seniors take the test, posted the highest average combined score of 1098--567 math, 531 verbal. South Carolina had the lowest average--431 math, 395 verbal, 826 combined--but 49 percent took the exam...
...both scholarly sources (Gary Goshgarian's Exploring Language) and popular ones (Rolling Stone). It covers such categories as media talk (show biz, glitz), government lingo (lame duck, on the stump), business idioms (the fine print, three-martini lunch) and cocktail patter (networking, finger food, breaking the ice). The final exam: a mock bash at which students will knock down real cocktails, press the flesh and chat up guests...
...some inventive cheating on tests. At Cambridge, he was too concerned with applause to bother about academics. In his senior year, Vickers notes, Beaton was cast in drag for a student revue. "He began to practise high kicks for his show and found himself incapable of preparing for his exam: 'I've done absolutely no work!' Then he went to London to buy bright peppermint pink chiffon for his dress...
...became our mascot," said sectionmate Lisbeth Barron. "Anything that must have gone wrong Betsy must have done it." Added Jonathan Bower, "Betsy nosed out Mr. Potato Head for our affection." One student is rumored to have handed in a final exam with Spence's name...