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Nearly four years after announcing it would temporarily remove the testing requirement for applicants, Dartmouth has announced it is reinstating the SAT.When Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, it was a pragmatic pause taken by most colleges and universities in response to an unprecedented global pandemic. At the time, we imagined the resulting "test-optional" policy as a short-term practice rather than an informed commentary on the role of testing in our holistic evaluation process. Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our admissions process as well as its value as...

A public university in Florida will allow students to submit test scores from a college entrance exam that is said to be more rooted in Western classical and Christian traditions as an alternative to the ACT and SAT.New College of Florida announced that it plans to become the first public university in the state to accept Classic Learning Test scores in place of the ACT or SAT by fall 2024. Students can still submit ACT and SAT test scores as part of the admissions process. “As New College strives to become a world-class liberal arts educational institution, adding the CLT...

Many high school students are pushing back against the importance of test scores. Awaiting responses from colleges on whether you were accepted or rejected can be quite stressful. That stress can quickly turn to disappointment when having been rejected from colleges that were high on your priority list. For one high schooler, despite her high overall average when she sent out college applications, she was shocked to receive more rejections in the mail than she hadn't been anticipating. In a TikTok video, the teenage girl, C'Lette, filmed all of the rejection letters she had received in the mail from schools...

wenty students have committed suicide in India this past week after the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) announced their exam scores, which Khaleejtimes reported have been marked in controversy after there were discrepancies in the results. Nearly 1 million students took the exams between February and March, and nearly 350,000 failed, causing widespread protests from parents, student groups and political parties. One student named Sirisha was failing biology and set herself on fire at her home in the Narayanpet district on Saturday after her parents went out to the fields, according to Khaleejtimes. On Thursday, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao...

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A 1912 eighth grade exam surfaced recently at a museum in Kentucky, something that proved interesting when comparing education from 100 years ago and today. According to the CS Monitor on Aug. 12, the exam was donated to the museum and hit the Internet today. The eighth grade exam was called the “Common Exam” and was taken by students in the courthouse once or twice a year. If passed, the students could receive their scholarships to attend high school. There were 56 questions, a 40-word spelling quiz, and also a separate reading and writing test. The areas of study on...

California education officials have identified 242 schools statewide where students posted standardized test-related images on social-networking sites — 16 of which included exam questions or answers that could be deemed as cheating violations. Hundreds of photos turned up online this year during the administration of the Standardized Testing and Reporting exams, which make up most of the school’s state rating on the Academic Performance Index. Test scores were released Thursday. The majority of images depicted students posing with closed test booklets or illegible materials, the California Department of Education said in a release. Students are not allowed to use electronic...

Memphis man indicted for helping teachers cheat on licensing exams in Tenn., Ark. and Miss.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS July 10, 2012 - 6:19 pm EDT MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man has been indicted on federal charges that he was paid thousands of dollars by aspiring teachers in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi to have other people take their teacher licensing exams. The federal indictment released Tuesday said 58-year-old Clarence Mumford hired a group of test takers, including Memphis City Schools employees or former employees, and used false documents during licensing exams in the three states. The Commercial Appeal reported that the...

How much should a college education cost? According to the College Board, the average cost of earning a degree at a private, 4-year university is now more than $100,000. If tuition prices continue to rise as quickly as they did during the past decade, a college degree will cost more than $200,000 by the time today’s third-graders are applying. That price tag is enough to cause most parents to break into a sweat. Is a college degree really worth this cost? Some bright minds think Americans are paying way too much. In fact, Bill Gates--one of the country's most famous...

Students should be allowed to take “smart drugs” to boost their performance in exams, according to an academic. The use of drugs such as modafinil and Ritalin is no worse than sending children to a private tutor, said Vince Cakic, from the department of psychology at Sydney University. The comments are made in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Some academics have claimed that smart drugs, or “nootropics”, which are often widely available over the internet, should be banned over long-term safety fears. Mr Cakic said universities in the future may attempt to impose random urine tests to...

Three educators give their views on exams Susan Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution "Back when I went to Oxford, the entrance exams for women were different. The one for Oxford I found most challenging was the general classics paper. It was a 3.5 hour paper – you had half an hour to think ,then one hour for each question. I still remember one of the questions – 'compare the ideas of empire in Greece and Rome'. That was a real high jump intellectually. Exams are good things. They prepare you...

As my oldest son enters exam week, I thought that it would be a good idea to help all Freepers with children facing final exams to join in prayer for the success of our children -- success in their studies; success in standing against the culture of death and of anything goes; and success in their future lives as spouses and parents. Many of our conservative children are isolated because of their views on social and economic issues. We need to pray that they have the courage to stand in the breach and to proclaim God's Kingdom right here, right...

Capt. Lori August gives an Iraqi child a hearing exam, Dec. 28, 2008. Photo by 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs. COB ADDER — Approximately 15 Samawa school children received their first hearing exams here, Dec 28. The Soldiers assigned to the 27th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division identified candidates for the exam during a visit to the al-Amal school for the deaf, which is located in the town of Ar-Rumythan, about an hour north of Samawah in southern Iraq."I hope we can continue working with the local populace,” said Staff Sgt. Heidi Barber, a combat...

Write ‘f*** off’ on a GCSE paper and you’ll get 7.5%. Add an exclamation mark and it’ll go up to 11% Pupils are being rewarded for writing obscenities in their GCSE English examinations even when it has nothing to do with the question. One pupil who wrote “f*** off” was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully. His paper was marked by Peter Buckroyd, a chief examiner who has instructed fellow examiners to mark in the same way. He told trainee examiners recently to adhere strictly to the mark scheme, to the extent that pupils who wrote...

Before Mayor Bloomberg starts shelling out money to high school juniors for passing their New York State Regents exams, he would do well to bring as much scrutiny to the content of these tests as he does to the quantity of trans fats in restaurant food. People who took their Regents exams 30 years ago assume that the current version of the tests is essentially the same. They would be stunned to learn how dumbed-down the tests have become. You might say that the American history Regents gives new meaning to the term “E-Z Pass.” The test has three components:...

Phony doctor gives free breast exams Thu Apr 20, 11:40 AM ET MIAMI (Reuters) - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday. One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves, investigators said. The woman then phoned the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the suspect fled. He was arrested at another woman's apartment in the same Lauderdale...

Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 76-year-old man Thursday who they say was going door-to-door in a Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood offering free breast exams. Two women accepted the exams, BSO officials said. At about 9 a.m., BSO investigators say, Philip Winikoff drove to an apartment complex near the 3200 block of Northwest 40th Street. Carrying a black ''doctor's'' bag, he walked up to the building and told a 36-year-old woman that he was in the neighborhood offering free breast exams.

A 15-year old girl, who fought cancer to appear for her SSC (Secondary School Certifficate) examination in Mumbai has scored 77 per cent marks, but isn't around to celebrate. Vaibhavi, who wrote 'I am going to conquer the disease and not let the disease conquer me' in all her notebooks, lost the battle to cancer in May. But before she breathed her last, Vaibhavi did what she had promised herself and her parents -- she wrote all her papers without any special assistance. The board offered a writer's help and also extra time to finish her papers. She said no...

HUNDREDPERCENTER For love of God & Country The Indoctrination of America's Youth by Malachy Joyce HundredPercenter By the time you complete reading the contents of this page, you will be shocked. HundredPercenter has taken an in depth look into New York State's regents examinations for Global history, U.S. history & Government, for the years 2000-04. Within the contents of the examinations, you will find incontrovertible evidence of a scary liberal bias, with many questions being anti-capitalist, anti-government, anti-chrisitan, and outright anti-american. The regent exams, which are publicly funded, are part and parcel of an attempt by the left in America...

<p>Valley schools are combating the inevitable panic about the battery of standardized tests this month with perks like snacks, parties and other incentives.</p> <p>They serve a dual purpose, said Carol Johnson Butler, principal at C.W. Harris Elementary in Phoenix. At Harris, the snacks boosted brainpower and the perks got kids to come to school on test days, she said.</p>