To avert cheating on paper-and-pencil exams, administrators often give students versions that differ slightly from the exams their peers took a month or a year earlier.
The exam administrator quickly disabused her of this notion, saying that it was a general aptitude test.
In addition to assessing students' writing ability, the new computer-based format of the exam allowed test administrators to collect extensive information on 24 separate student "actions," including keystrokes, backspacing, deletions and their use of spell-checking programs.
The Washington, DC resident was given a crude blood pressure exam that supposedly proved his innocence, but a judge prevented the test administrator from testifying in court.
This made it difficult to assess the claim made by the College Board, the exam's administrator, that studying for the SATs would serve no purpose.
While the schools are free to continue using the exam, Dr. Hayot said she expected the vast majority to scrap it after the association's contract with the exam's administrator ends next spring.
Perhaps he had not heard that none of the country's 25,000 university applicants passed this year's entrance exams after administrators switched to a fair admissions system based on real marks rather than bribes and family connections.
Teachers teach to the test, administrators have found ways to get rid of students who get low scores, and many states have dumbed down their exams.
Enrollment is again growing and students are concerned about passing final exams, not battling administrators.
The Certified OpenStack Administrator exam will help provide a target for cloud administrators who are in high demand as the number of organizations adopting OpenStack continues to grow".
