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Atwood shared anecdotes from her experience as a graduate student at Radcliffe and Harvard, and as a grammar teacher at the University of British Columbia, where she wrote one of her novels “on leftover blue-lined exam notebooks...
...efforts center on replacing the SAT with a new test that better reflects what is being taught in California high schools, stressing that students must learn the material rather than how to score highly on an unrelated math and verbal exam...
Even those who did show up to take the exam last year likely took it less seriously than they would have if it had counted towards their graduation. Now that the test actually counts, it is unsurprising that scores rose...
Last year’s low scores were skewed due to the fact that a considerable number of high school students across the state boycotted the test. Because the test was only a trial for last year’s students, there were no penalties for missing the exam. As a result, about 30 percent of Cambridge sophomores stayed home last year, resulting in exceptionally low passage rates. This year, only a negligible number of 10th graders missed the test, and predictably the passage of passing students skyrocketed...
There are many possible methods of treatment for this disorder, of course. Immersion therapy seems a sensible course—plopping Inouye down in Cabot Science Library during exam time, for instance, would quickly disabuse him of the notion that Harvardians are “lazy,” while an evening spent reading the work of (carefully selected) Crimson columnists might well restore his faith in our overall intelligence. And even if this fails, we can rest secure in the knowledge that no patient is so far gone that they cannot be restored to health—so long...