Word: exam
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...massive infusion of effort would cause scores to improve so substantially that very few students would fail the exam, then perhaps the proposed high stakes system would be reasonable. However, overall scores rose only very slightly from the first time the test was taken to the second time. In some areas, scores fell despite classroom emphasis on test preparation. It seems clear that scores on this test, like the quality of education in general, can change only gradually. Three years is not enough time to improve a 40 percent failure rate to a reasonable success rate...
...better system would have two levels of diplomas, a good old-fashioned high school diploma and an honors diploma, much like the Regents system in New York. Students who excelled in school and reached the "proficient" or "advanced" level on the exam would be recognized for their achievements, while students who completed all high school requirements and passed their courses but not the test would receive an ordinary diploma. This policy would take advantage of the best aspect of the test, its ability to identify the most effective parts of the educational system, while avoiding the travesty of denying diplomas...
...policies toward them. But the quiz was as much a test of his political radar as of his foreign-policy smarts: ever since he confused Slovenia and Slovakia and called the Greeks Grecians, he should have known it was only a matter of time before someone administered a midterm exam. And at other moments during the week, when he veered off text, the words just sort of floated out there, untied to any actual ideas. The implicit charge is less that he's stupid than that he's incurious, proudly anti-intellectual. Yet he is applying...
...summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I enrolled in a program at Stanford and took a class in American Government. But instead of a comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
...test itself costs $165. And many premeds take a Kaplan or Princeton Review course--running at about $1,000--to prepare for the grueling eight-hour exam...