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...encourages students to keep up with the material," said teaching fellow Thomas K. Cheng. "Otherwise there's a huge incentive to fall behind until the exam...
...same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate notes. They studied separately for the exam. When it was returned, they had missed the same questions, for the same reasons...
...Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery. What, exactly, does it measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their...
Community service has always been important to Schwartz. He recently created a program in his hometown of East Hills, NY to help immigrants pass the US citizenship exam...
Before anyone decides to put off a potentially lifesaving operation on the basis of these findings, there are a few points to bear in mind. The tests used to measure cognitive ability are very sensitive. Any one of us could "fail" such an exam and still not notice a great difference in our daily life. In addition, this is a preliminary study that lacked a control or comparison group. "I think there's something to this," says Dr. Patrick McCarthy, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. But he is quick to add that it's not at all clear...