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...medical schools in May to inform them that ACT had made an "equating error" in scoring the April MCATs, and that approximately 90 per cent of the students tested received scores that were slightly low. Apparently, ACT's error will not affect the admissions process. According to Charles Sentress, coordinator of public affairs for ACT, medical schools should receive corrected test scores some time this week. Since most students who took the April MCATs are applying for admission to the class that matriculates in 1979, at the earliest, medical schools should have ample time to evaluate students in light...
...which ACT introduced major changes into the MCATs two years ago provides an interesting comparison with ETS's methodology. Five years before the change, ACT began testing experimental questions in preparation. "This was a long, gradual process, and the med schools knew about it from the start," Sentress, of ACT, said...
Where the change in the prospective lawyers' test involved an increase in math questions, the revised MCATs introduced a larger number of science questions--to test for both specific knowledge useful in medical school, and for the ability to think in a scientific mode, Sentress said...
...Grossman '95, of St. Louis, Mo., was elected secretary, and E. C. Kimball '96, of Dubuque. Iowa, treasurer. The following vice-presidents were elected in the various divisions: New England, E. A. Harriman '88, of New Haven, Conn.; Eastern, H. L. Clark '87, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Southern, David Sentress, L.L.B. '99, of Memphis, Tenn.; South-western, H. A. Leekley'96, of Muskogee, Okla.; Central, P. W. Herrick '04, of Cleveland, Ohio; Western, A. C. Smith '87, of Omaha, Neb.; Pacific, William Thomas '73, of San Francisco, Cal.; and Foreign, J. H. Hyde '98, of Paris, France...
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