Word: tested
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However, this midseason matchup will be a good test for Harvard and Northeastern, both of which have high hopes for the postseason...
Within the next five or six years, many of us, if not most, will subject ourselves to an alphabet soup of similar ordeals of widely varying intensity, including the LSAT, the GMAT and the GRE. But as they return from their pilgrimages to test sites at U. Mass-Boston or MIT, most test-taking students refuse to evaluate their performance themselves. As we hail the conquering heroes, they merely say, "It's over...
...These tests are very high-schoolish, but not for the reasons most people think. True, the material they examine is occasionally elementary and often irrelevant, and the skill of answering these questions under such tight time pressure is really only useful to a small fraction of those taking all the various tests. True, the tests are mostly multiple choice, can be mastered through expensive test-prep courses and probably don't reflect anything about one's potential performance in graduate school...
...most high-schoolish part of the process is actually the part that's happening right now, after the test is over. After days, weeks or months of preparing, cramming and mastering the techniques for answering various questions, those who took the test are now no longer responsible for the evaluation of their performance. It is, as many a junior has shouted for joy, out of their hands...
...time we reach our very last graduation, most of us will have spent more than 20 percent of our lives in school. The number of tests we will have taken will be in the hundreds. The pages of essays or problem set solutions we have produced will be measurable in reams. The number of resumes or transcripts we will have sent out will suffice to nauseate us. For nearly 20 years, or possibly even more if we continue on to graduate school (as test-takers hope to do), we will have been judged by our words and by our numbers...