TODAY, after four arduous years of examinations, graduating medical doctors will report to their residency programs.
Critics of undergraduate biology education often blame standardized tests, like the Medical College Admission Test, Graduate Record Examination, and Advanced Placement (AP) exam, for promoting assessment of factual minutiae in introductory courses (NRC, 2002; Wood, 2002; NRC, 2003).
Mr. Levy said he was concerned because starting this year, high school students throughout New York State will have to pass a Regents mathematics examination to graduate.
CUNY students will also be required to pass a proficiency examination to graduate from community colleges or to begin a third year of study at senior colleges.
As many New Yorkers are aware, the state Board of Regents responded to the rallying cry to "raise standards" by mandating that, starting this year, all students must pass a beefed-up English examination before graduating from high school.
Only this study, however, begins its discussion with a bottom-up examination of graduate education's fundamental purposes, rather than focusing on the needs of academic science or the national research enterprise.
Students of Confucian studies were potential candidates for the imperial examinations, the graduates of which could be appointed as state bureaucrats in the local, provincial, and central government.
On page 8 it states that under the alternative graduation route "Students may take four Regents exams (ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) and a comparably rigorous assessment for the fifth required examination to graduate".
At the end of form 5 students are required to take the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) or the Malaysian Certificate of Education examination, before graduating secondary school.
Because she had passed the admission examination for graduate study in a medical school, the nurse planned to resign her job to become a full-time student by 15 August.
