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John P. Smith, media director for ETS, said last week the purpose of the change in the LSATs was "to give the better students a chance to excel, by sprinkling rougher questions throughout the upper range of the LSATs." Before ETS altered the test, Lydon explains, "there was a lumping of people scoring in the upper-600s, and an extreme drop in the over-700 scores. What they did was to add more difficult questions, in order to make the scoring curve more like a normal bell-curve distribution...
...Brill says. "But the people like me--people who are strong in math and who do well on standardized tests to begin with--they only do better." If Brill is correct, it appears that the change in the LSATs does not necessarily allow the more able potential lawyers to excel, but rather merely extends the advantage enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client...
...effect of the terrorism in Italy, says Bonfante, is that fear has paralyzed the instinct of Italians to excel in something and thereby catch the public eye. Anything they might do that attracted publicity could also attract a terrorist...
...going to be. Academics became more important to him and he became a good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him to stay back a year in school, but he was able to learn quickly and started to excel. An even greater accomplishment, however, was learning to walk with a cane when he was 14. He spent two summers learning to walk around a city by himself and learning how to cook and play children's games. At first, walking alone was frightening; this forced him to be alert...
...Irish obviously have a tremendous cultural advantage in all of these field; William Butler Yeats, sources say, would have made a phenomenal barkeep if he'd been about 25 pounds heavier. As it is, the average Gaelic male has just the right blend of good humor and patience to excel in the field. (In my own day, for instance, I once let a customer drink two bottles of Worcestershire sauce before calling a stop to the fun; and I didn't even charge...