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...Westheimer and Brauer agreed was "very difficult" to distinguish background from higher and noted that both were used as for placement in accelerated...
...most notable of several trends Wilcox pointed out in the six-year of the Sophomore Standing and single-subject Advanced Placement . There was no vote taken at the meeting, and there were no decisions publish Wilcox's report and discuss it again at a later time...
Besides the high performance of Sophomore Standing students, for which he did not offer any specific explanation, another major trend Wilcox brought out was that the number of students with Sophomore Standing or Advanced Placement is not increasing so fast as it used to. He suggested that even so, the number of sophomores in each incoming class might rise until half the undergraduates in the College were staying at Harvard only three years. The Faculty reaction to this possibility was not enthusiastic...
During the last exam period, only 67 of the 137 enrolled in French Ca passed the college language requirement with the required 560 on the placement test. In French Ra, 31 of 142 surpassed 560. Last year 60 of 130 in Ca and 50 in 185 in Ra passed, indicating that University language courses may be diverging further from the placement test contents...
...Spanish, one-fifth of Spanish A students passed the exam in their first try at the tests. Only 22 of 68 enrolled in Ca succeeded, after the equivalent of three semesters of study at the college. Geary emphasized that the placement tests are not valid standards of comparison for courses because of varying contents and quality of students in otherwise similar courses...