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...sure, attacking the weaknesses is strikingly light exercise. It takes very little effort, for instance, to single out Advanced Placement tests as Sophomore Standing's most conspicuous failing. They are too simple, and they show not at all whether an entering Freshman is ready to assume the name and concentration requirements of a Sophomore. Graded on a scale of one-through-five, they force the College to pick 100 Sophomores a year on the hopelessly inadequate basis of little numbers, the kind of criteria Harvard usually prefers to distrust...
...normal incoming freshman. For instance, he can get waiver of the Gen Ed A requirement, exemption from lower-level Gen Ed courses and from Physical Training, immediate assignment to a House, and concentration in the first year of residence. But, the SCCEP report charges with complete accuracy, "the Advanced Placement tests, the present criteria for Sophomore Standing, do not measure quantities relevant to these privileges...
...SCCEP might well have trained its guns on the real weak spot of the program--the Advanced Placement tests. Opinion is almost unanimous that these examinations, taken in the spring of senior year in high school, are ridiculously easy. While of course they cannot show a student's emotional preparedness or his ability to adjust to House life, these tests in many cases do not even measure academic competence effectively. Much of the scholastic difficulties that Sophomore Standing students encounter--and apparently these are what the Committee was largely concerned with--might disappear if the Advanced Placement tests were more...
These options are offered to new sophomores, but "the Advanced Placement tests, the present criteria for Sophomore Standing, do not measure quantities relevant to these privileges," the report charged...
...given anywhere in the world. The set is a masterpiece of brilliance and balance; each costume expresses the character of the actor who wears it, and each is designed with the most subtle awareness of how its colors will complement those of the set; at any given instant the placement of actors on the stage is perfectly arranged; the audience's eyes are always guided to where the action is going on; and there is always action...