"applied the test" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person or group of people conducting a test or examination. Example: The scientists applied the test to the new drug to determine its effectiveness against the disease.
These details are crucial to understand, to see if the department has applied the test correctly, and if not, on what grounds to appeal.
In the new study, they applied the test to a mock terrorist situation, recruiting 29 university students and dividing them into "guilty" and "innocent" groups.
Rosenfeld's group has already applied the test in a mock crime scenario, using it to identify participants who had knowledge of a stolen object.
Now there's a Web site that has applied the test to hundreds of movies, and Sweden made headlines last November when movie theatres there introduced a new rating system based on the principles of the test.
In a dry run, the scientists applied the test to a group of Swedish men aged 70 who had been tracked for 20 years as part of a separate study.
It's a comic method of which Ronson himself is by no means unaware; in his latest peregrination, The Psychopath Test, he writes of Toto Constant, a sinister Haitian leader of death-squads, to whom Ronson has applied the "test" of the title: "There had been something reassuringly familiar about him at the beginning.
San Francisco apparently is the only city that has applied the testing strategy in a series of years so as to detect trends, Dr. Katz said.
We applied the tests to the biological process (BP) branch of the GO and the CL.
A team of experienced previously trained evaluators applied the tests.
So let us apply the test.
Applying the test to the last few books I read yields, I think, fair results too.
