Word: testing
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...televised regionally by ABC and will be the second time this season that the Crimson has been on the tube. Their first appearance, a 24-13 waxing of Umass, has already been nominated for an Emmy, and only time will tell whether or not Yale handles their gridiron screen test with stage fright or hamming...
...white man.) And second class Black-white men at that. They began to distrust their "special admissions" and to feel that they were doing nothing but assuaging the white man's communal guilt. When, during the first two weeks of school, most of the conversation centered around the spectacular test scores of the white students, the minority students were compelled to slink away like shadows at noon, wondering why on earth they were there, how in the world they could compete, and much less succeed. But it was not only the novice and insecure student who fought these creeping realizations...
...wonder, then, that colleges are looking forward to some help in evaluating the writing skills of freshmen before they arrive on campus. The College Entrance Examination Board (C.E.E.B.) has decided to add to its college-admissions testing program next fall a short-answer test of standard English. In experimental use for three years, this exam will now become a separate but permanent adjunct of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that is taken by roughly 1.4 million students each year. Further, the board will reinstitute a 20-minute essay section in the present English Composition Achievement Test, one of 15 exercises...
...second step involved close work with psychologists to evolve a method of testing these personality traits on a written examination. A committee has been formed by the AAMC to monitor and evaluate the results of the new test...
House premed advisors yesterday said that most students take the MCATs in the spring of their junior year or the fall of their senior year, and therefore will not have to repeat the test...