Hooper Holmes, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, conducts physical examinations of applicants for life insurance policies.
Average Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test scores of applicants in verbal, quantitative, and analytical sections were 601, 778, and 695, respectively.
The license was granted only after an examination of the applicant's "learning and dexterity in teaching," "sober and honest conversation," and "right understanding of God's true religion".
Because pupils could not proceed from elementary to secondary schools and from there to colleges or universities unless they passed a competitive entrance examination at each stage, the importance and severity of the examinations grew with the number of applicants.
The number of applicants for the Imperial examinations far outmatched the actual number of jinshi, or "presented scholars" who were given official appointments in the Song dynasty.
Although the study population was reasonably large it consisted of young self-employed and the number of applicants with abnormalities at the medical examination was in general small.
This is also the position of Jon Beard, director of undergraduate recruitment at Cambridge University, who described the I.B. merely as "equally acceptable" to other school and national examination systems including the A-levels taken by a majority of applicants.
Eliciting NCA's may represent an innovative approach to the formal measurement of personal and interpersonal skills of applicants, and show promise as complements to cognitive examination components in medical school admission processes.
The men are among thousands of applicants who took the Fire Department's entrance examinations in 1999 and 2002, tests that a federal judge recently found had discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants.
Secondly, a minority of applicants holding conditional offers may fail to achieve the examination results required for admission.
