Word: testes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...
...agree that maybe the test should be looked into, and I am open to the possibility that the test may be unfair, but I think The Crimson and other newspapers should put away their violins, stop playing their sad songs, and open themselves to the possibility that people are failing because they are unprepared, and they fail repeatedly because they do not invest the time and effort in order to make themselves prepared. MICHAEL V. ZINITI...
...While reading the article "Questions of Validity Surround Teacher Tests" (Feb. 24), I was reminded of a similar issue that arose in my home state of Florida about 10 years ago. All college sophomores were required to take and pass the CLAST test in order to continue on to the college of their chosen major. The test was supposed to be at about a 10th grade level. I honestly feel it was much easier than that, and I went to a mediocre public high school and was a B student in college...
...Well, there were many students who failed one or more parts of the test (you can retake it as many times as you need to pass.) There was an outcry of, "It's unfair! It's gender biased! It's race biased! Our future shouldn't be based on one test...
...feeling at the time was, and still is, if you cannot pass an easy test of basic, general literacy skills, I do not want you receiving a diploma from my University. It would lower the credibility of an education from the University, and that's not fair to those of us who have no problem performing basic math skills and forming complete sentences...