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...Governor Reagan made him chief of staff, then nominated him to the California Supreme Court. As a prospective U.S. Supreme Court Justice, however, Clark is likely to stir opposition from Congress and the organized bar. His legal credentials are suspect: he dropped out of law school, passed the bar exam only on his second try, and was so inexperienced as a California judge that he had to rely heavily on his staff for legal expertise...
Unusual computer delays in administering the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) exam this fall has prompted the University to issue a letter of apology to all students who attempted to take the test...
About 1 million college-bound high school seniors-one-third of the class of '84-took the SAT exam last year. The test is designed to predict how students will perform in college. But each year's results have come to be scrutinized as a signal of how U.S. high schools are going. The plunge from 1963 (when the verbal average was 478, the math average 502) to 1980 and '81 (when they bottomed out at 424 verbal and 466 math) was attributed to social factors, softening ,- academic standards and deteriorating schools...
There are also fleeting suggestions, beneath all his mocking worldliness, of a slightly unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines, who will sometimes sneak up and start tickling him to make him smile. He frets over whether to have a nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which...
William G. Perry Jr., professor of education emeritus, wrote a very clever essay defining types of examsmanship. A student who has just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...