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...Language placement tests, questionnaires distributed to freshmen, and freshman advisers all help immediately spot any students with potential language problems, Dinklage says. That way, students can be tested for language disability before they have to take the language requirement. "There is a phenomenon by which the longer some students study a language, the lower they score on language tests," Whitlock says...
...from 20 to 30 (men outnumbering women 4 to 1). Somehow those over 30 seemed to have lost the desire for it, settling instead for alternate lifestyles. So, in 1971, Meyer began keeping track of his patients' postoperative acceptance of their new gender, using such indicators as job placement, marital success, psychiatric status and police records. Concludes Meyer: the surgery "serves as a palliative measure ... [but] it does not cure what is essentially a psychiatric disturbance...
...promisingly. "Yatakatakatakatakatakatakatakataka." "Dios mio!" came the response. "Yatakatakatakatakatakataka." I gave up after the second line and just laughed. I was not alone. Some guy got up and did the flamenco. My score on the test was 415, which, by the law of averages, I would have scored on the placement test in Urdu...
...loved the Placement Test in Math. That's because I'm an English major and never plan to take a math course. I just sat and drew little pictures of my high school algebra teachers, which I then impaled on slices of percentage pie. Of course under the new Core, you may have to take a Math course. Still it may be wise to do as badly as you can, so you can slip through with a core equivalent of Math...
...have to take one of the Language Placement tests, you stand a decent chance of flunking it. After all--if you were any good in your language, you would have gotten that 560 or better on your Achievement Tests. Harvard has a basic language requirement, and if you screw up the test, it'll cost you four hours a South Africa question, it is possible the Corporation may listen a little more carefully...