Word: examing
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Richard Taylor Rives, 65, presiding judge on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Rives (rhymes with Eaves) is a conservative, tradition-minded Democrat who passed the bar exam at 19 after "reading law" in the office of a family friend, won his court appointment in 1951. In his handful of segregation cases, Rives has invariably decided for liberalism, but not always without a twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic...
...School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...
...American Medical Colleges and Federation of State Medical Boards, created the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Its job: to set standards for foreign-trained doctors, administer qualifying tests. To win permission to work in a U.S. hospital, a candidate must score 75% or better on the Educational Council exam. If he scores 70% to 74%, he can stay in the U.S., bone up to take the exams again...
Last week, under pressure from Congress and the State Department, the A.M.A. relented a bit on its pass-the-test-or-get-out policy. Foreign doctors who flunked the September exam may remain with their hospitals until next July 1 can take another crack at the qualifying test in April. But they will not be permitted to treat patients until they pass the exam. The A.M.A. and the State Department also agreed that in the future, foreign doctors who want to work in the U.S. must pass the qualifying examinations in their own countries before even applying for exchange-visitor...
...stereotype," says President Thomas Ragle, 32, who came to teach and became president instead. Ragle is looking for "the creative intellectual, who may or may not score high on college boards." Not even accredited yet. Marlboro makes every student take a two-day, 16-hour comprehensive exam covering all fields. Flunkers may try again, but must pass to graduate. Also required: a rigorous research project so independently pursued that a student might even go off to Europe for a year to finish it. In such matters Ragle is an experimenter off on his own, but he speaks...