Word: taker
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...College Board says the average SAT taker spends only 11 hours preparing--and that coaching on average adds fewer than 40 points to a score. But test prep has become a big part of teen culture in most suburbs. Even the College Board sells its own test-prep material. The Princeton Review's $799-to-$899 SAT classes typically meet weekly for six weeks, and students are expected to practice analogies and memorize vocabulary at home. "There has been a kind of testing mania that's hit us at all levels," says Sylvia Manning, a chancellor of the University...
...best minds got to top universities so the nation could make use of them and secondarily to make the student bodies of Harvard and schools like it more academic and more national. The SAT was attractive to him because it seemed then to factor out the quality of the taker's education...
...College Board says the average SAT taker spends only 11 hours preparing - and that coaching on average adds fewer than 40 points to a score. But test prep has become a big part of teen culture in most suburbs. Even the College Board sells its own test-prep material. The Princeton Review's $799-to-$899 SAT classes typically meet weekly for six weeks, and students are expected to practice analogies and memorize vocabulary at home. "There has been a kind of testing mania that's hit us at all levels," says Sylvia Manning, a chancellor of the University...
...best minds got to top universities so the nation could make use of them and secondarily to make the student bodies of Harvard and schools like it more academic and more national. The SAT was attractive to him because it seemed then to factor out the quality of the taker's education...
...will be left to the court to map the journey of a blood donor turned life taker. Only last August, a man named Michael McDermott who used the handle "Mucko" was preaching peace in an Internet discussion about explosives. He reprimanded someone looking to buy land mines: "It would seem that some 'Christians' have forgotten the Sixth Commandment. It is hard to imagine Jesus resorting to land mines." The commandment is Thou Shalt Not Kill...