Word: teste
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...you’re going to ignore the SAT Reasoning Test, maybe? What? My mother is crying—mostly because I berated her (it was unrelated), but at least partly because she spent seven months of her pregnancy with a tape player strapped to her torso, repeating complete analogies. Tenet is to theologian what hypothesis is to biologist—not that that matters...
This is a test with almost a hundred years of real-world experience. You’re going to brush off the metric that informed a very many 20th-century college admission decisions to ask what Katie knows about the Hundred Years’ War. I say stay the course. Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczynski, Sumner Redstone: what’s the matter with those guys...
...that time, the one overcrowded middle school in the area had some of the worst test scores in the city. Today, Excel is one of Boston’s leading public schools. In an area where many students never even dream of going to college, Excel regularly sends its students to top high schools that feed into selective universities...
...neutral. A good SAT score has always added sparkle to the resumes of the most affluent college applicants, while casting a shadow onto those from less privileged backgrounds. The SAT at times seems almost directly proportional to the amount of money one’s parents make. Among test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were above $200,000 averaged 570 in SAT math, while students with family incomes below $20,000 had an average score of 456. A commission of prominent college admissions figures—headed by Harvard’s own dean of admissions...
...businesses, we're talking about peoples retirement savings; the system needs to work and I'm not trying to scare people, because I have real confidence we'll get through this, we always do. But we have to come together as a democracy and rise. This is a real test of our system...