Word: exam
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Emerging from the stream of students throwing soft footballs and exam- ining their new J.P. Morgan pens, Campbell admitted that he appreciated getting a "new bubble pen" as well as learning about new career opportunities...
...student members of the committee expressed support for a final exam Web site...
More important, ETS has not-so-implicitly acknowledged that the tests are not measures of intrinsic ability and that test preparation guides do help to raise scores. Surely that goes against the idea of their exam. Just like any other exam in high school or college, some students can perform well without prior preparation; many others can succeed with studying. However, other exams are written to test knowledge of an area, so that studying for them provides some sort of education in itself. ETS has not claimed that studying for their exams does anything other than raise exam scores...
This term President Clinton has been battling to get funding for nationalized school testing. Some teachers have protested that instead of teaching students for the sake of their education, they will now have to teach them to perform well on the exam and thereby compromise on the time spent for their knowledge. Perhaps Clinton should hold off after seeing ETS falter...
...question about the ideal location of the theater was on Harvard's Geography 1 exam (answer: halfway between Harvard Square and the Charlestown Navy Yard...