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Word: examing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Becky Tung, recovering from a recent knee operation, and Margo McGlade, who had to take a foreign service exam, both missed the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Win in Opener; Depth Topples Bowdoin, 5-2 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...translation of the exam and analyses of the subject areas are available from the U.S. Office of Education (USOE), which recently published "The 1978 National College Entrance Exam in the People's Republic of China," which insiders predict will soon be a major motion picture...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

SAMPLE QUESTIONS FROM THE POLITICS EXAM...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Some of the groups test only a handful of applicants in New York. They argue that spending an estimated $25,000 to prepare a new test each time 300 people take the exam would require a cost to the student of $80 or more. Insisting that "there is a definite limit to the number of high quality questions that can be generated," the Association of American Medical Colleges, which tests about 5,000 New York medical school applicants annually, has brought suit challenging the constitutionality of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Testy | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...businessman who had big ideas and often bigger debts. The first volume of Pritchett's autobiography is called A Cab at the Door because the family moved a lot. He developed a taste for reading and skepticism but when he failed a scholarship exam, his formal education ended. It was a disguised blessing: "If I had passed I would have stayed at school until I was eighteen and would surely have got another scholarship to London University; probably I would have become a teacher or an academic. I had had a narrow escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Clarity of Mind, a Clarity of Heart | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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