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Since the College language requirement will remain static for some time, the language departments now feel they can draft new placement tests without fear of further revisions due to changing standards...
Officials of the language departments yesterday condemned language placement tests for their failure to reflect the content of University courses...
...present placement test is not very accurate or well conceived," charged Edward J. Geory, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literature. Placement tests are written by University instructors and resemble College Board tests in general format...
Students who have had two or more years of a language in high school can meet the language requirement by scoring 560 on the College Board tests, by passing one year of an intermediate language course, or by scoring 560 on the University placement test which is given at mid-year by the intermediate courses as a part of their exam...
...Exciting. Principal Brown, 43, went on to revamp everything else at Melbourne. Most notably, he did away with ranking students from freshman to senior. Whatever their ages, youngsters pursue any course they can handle. Scores on aptitude and IQ tests are largely ignored. "Achievement alone is the criterion for placement," says Brown. "A student can conceivably pursue college calculus while taking a remedial English course at the fourth-grade level...