Word: princeton
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...instance, the Princeton Review SAT prep course shows students how to circumvent the reading comprehension portion of the test. The SAT always includes one passage on non-Western culture. According to the Princeton Review, students should always pick the most positive sounding answer choice in this section because ETS will generally avoid associating minorites and other nationalities with any negative judgments. Don't understand it, just pick the positive-sounding answer. So much for reading comprehension...
Math skills are also dispensable. Up until a few years ago, Princeton Review counselled students to solve geometry problems not by learning the material but by folding up their tests to create different size angles. Because ETS outlawed tearing and folding of the test booklet, Princeton Review no longer uses this technique. But through other methods such as predicting the sequences of answers, one can still get a good score without actually learning any material...
Spence, who was a star hockey player as an undergraduate at Princeton, said in an interview this week that he was excited by the hockey team's victory. He called the game a "win for college athletics" because of Harvard's emphasis on student-athletes...
...League's top two golf teams were on hand yesterday in a three-way season-opening match between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
...Princeton nabbed the top three individual honors as well, led by Jason Mrez, who shot a one-over-par 72 at the Springdale Country Club in Princeton...