Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences imposed tougher Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) standards for incoming students, a record-high 1143 first years have not passed the mandatory data and computer tests...
This embarrassing record comes as the faculty's subcommittee on the QRR considers including the requirement in the Core Program as an 11th subject area...
...students are demonstrating the same problems as in the past," said Lewis, a member of the subcommittee. "We feel this is for intellectual reasons. The present QRR is simply not fulfilling the purpose for which it was instituted...
Three hundred and thirty-four students have not managed to pass either part of the QRR, while computer tests have still to be administered to 1113 students. The number of students who had not finished the computer test at this of the year...
...QRR directors estimate that there will be over 3000 computer tests administered in the spring term, as students rush to complete the requirement before the end of the school year...