Word: examing
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After a year and a half of dipping into his TV loot, Teddy had taken a look at his thinning bankroll and decided he needed a job. He asked to become a census taker. On the standard exam, he did well on the language sections, but Teddy was a flop when it came to map reading, i.e., showing that he could stay within his assigned area, spot landmarks, figure the distance to the city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This...
...once on the "solids" (English, history, math, science, foreign language), and especially on English composition. English is the key to college work; by 1970 an estimated one-fourth of applicants may be rejected because they get so little of it. This is why the most important college board exam today is the verbal aptitude test (scored from 200 to 800). Falling much below 500 is bad news-"infant damnation," cracks one educator...
Into Thompson Hall at Teachers College of Columbia University trooped some 60 graduate students for a final examination on mental hygiene. Of those who took that exam last January, one was a ghost: a "Mike Benson" had been hired for $40 to substitute for a student uncertain of his own ability to pass. "Mike Benson" was, in fact, New York World-Telegram & Sun Reporter Alex...
...with it, it is all right." Columbia might have been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with a C-plus average, at New York City's Queens College), sailed through an exam beamed at graduate students. Said Ghost-Scholar Benson, who wrote an A-minus test paper: "It was a cinch...
Exchange Program. In Laramie, Wyo., when University of Wyoming Student Mrs. Bonny Rininger asked for a baby sitter so that she could take her final exam, her professor obliged, minded the baby while mother scored 93 on the exam...