Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under such a plan, candidates would take College Board exams and make applications starting in September. As a result, Bender said, "I think there is a real possibility of abandoning the achievement tests" as a criterion of admission. These have been used, evidently, primarily for placement in the past...
...program was passed on the premise that "there is sufficient similarity in content and objectives of beginning college courses among the Board's member colleges to make a single advance placement testing program a feasible venture...
...problem of defining a "beginning college course" may be the only drawback to the new national advanced placement program of the College Entrance Examination Board, Harlan P. Hanson, Director of Advanced Standing, said yesterday...
...broadening the eligibility for the advance tests in the hands of the CEEB, advance placement has changed from a faculty-to-faculty process to a student-to-college process. Hanson feels the new program will also let hundreds of self-taught students apply for advance placement...
...proposal is based on the premise that "There is sufficient similarity in content and objectives of beginning colleges courses among the Board's member colleges to make a single advanced placement testing program a feasible venture...