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...gear up to take midterm exams, students across the nation have begun to dodge tests of their own. But they aren’t avoiding that routine American history exam or multiplication quiz. Instead, American students are increasingly opting out of taking standardized tests, now mandated by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act. These students playing truant are decreasing the number of student standardized test-takers, and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the core mechanism of Bush’s education initiative...
Albert Chen, executive director of graduate programs at the test-prep company Kaplan, Inc., said the biggest implication of the new policy is that students will probably no longer take the MCAT exam for practice or without preparing thoroughly...
While the new score release requirements takes away the possibility of a “second chance” for students who do not do well in their first attempt, Chen said deterring students from taking the exam multiple times will probably make the medical school admissions process less time-consuming...
Boodram said medical schools did not usually consider the number of times a student had taken the MCAT exam when they applied...
...policy change] will have such a big impact,” said Kristin J. Hung ’04, a Mather House pre-med. “I’m not opposed to the change as it won’t affect the way I perform in the exam...