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  • Admission Test’s Scoring Quirk Throws Balance Into Question

    November 12, 2005
    · 2005

    Mr. Feinman had stumbled on a little-known facet of the test: because of the complex way it is graded, a student scoring extremely high on one part of the exam has a sharp advantage over a student with high but more balanced scores in each subject. “As taxpayers and parents, we should know how the…


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