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The phrase "a single test score" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one specific score obtained from a test or examination.
Example: "The student's performance was evaluated based on a single test score, which determined their eligibility for the scholarship."
Alternatives: "one test score" or "a lone test score".
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Even a single test score is useful.
"We will not allow our children to be reduced to a single test score," said Jane Hirschmann, a leader of the movement for alternative measures of student achievement.
Surprisingly, there has not yet been a wave of lawsuits by parents of children penalized largely because of a single test score.
How do you defend a law that is likely to result in 85percentt of public schools in America being labeled failing -- based on a single test score?
The use of a single test score to make promotion decisions is generally regarded as irresponsible; even test-publishing companies strongly advise against it.
To label someone as mentally retarded solely on the basis of a single test score, therefore, is to risk doing a disservice and an injustice to that person.
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Reliance on a single test or anomalous score will not be sufficient to establish a disabling condition.
Third, SMMSE was built from MMSE score and not performed as a single test that may probably induce variation in score.
He traffics in hard numbers, overseeing a system that assigns grades to schools based on complex and fixed formulas, in which success depends largely on how students score on a single test.
Many campuses pay for the scholarships to raise the number of prestigious merit scholars they attract, but the university's chancellors objected to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's practice of using the score from a single test, the College Board's PSAT exam, to choose a pool of possible winners.
Yet the problem with general-reasoning tests like the SAT is their premise: that something as complex as intellectual promise can be captured in a single test and reflected in a single score.
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