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...test. Girls tend to outperform boys on writing exams, so their overall scores could benefit from the addition of the new writing section. Boys usually score higher on the math section, but the new exam will contain fewer of the abstract-reasoning items at which they often excel. The elimination of analogies may exacerbate the black-white SAT score gap, since the gap is somewhat smaller on the analogy section than on the test as a whole, according to Jay Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation...
...crumbled ... With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned into his son two grim lessons: 1) he would have to emigrate to some more favorable country when he grew up, and 2) as a member of a disliked minority he would have to excel the average just to stay even ... It was easy enough for young Edward to excel the average. In early childhood he showed a gift for mathematics. 'One of my earliest memories,' he recalls, 'is that I was put to bed earlier than I liked and then lay awake...
However, he hasn’t lost the athleticism that allowed him to excel at both positions in high school. In this past summer’s testing, Kingston recorded the highest vertical jump on the team (36.5 inches) along with a 40-yard dash time of 4.53 seconds—a figure that also ranks in the top five on the team...
Kallman said women have unique assets that can help them to excel in the business world. She said that being a woman in the predominantly male-run beer industry has often helped her to stand...
...What’s it like to be married?’ or ‘What do you want to do on this play?’ We’re always trying to help each other out throughout games and drive each other to excel, because we both know we can be very good...