Sentence examples for exit tests from inspiring English sources

For higher education, there are exit tests for various English programs: Practical English Test for Colleges (PRETCO) for vocational school students, College English Test (CET) Band 4 and Band 6 for non-English majors, and Test for English Majors (TEM) Band 4 and Band 8 for English majors.

Most states have postponed exit tests rather than face the music.

When Massachusetts administered its exit tests the year before last, initially to 10th graders, close to 80percentt of black and Hispanic students failed the math portion.

The bill would severely cut back exit tests, and lower the number of courses students must take in math and science.

When Arizona, to take perhaps the most extreme example, first administered its exit tests to 10th graders in 1999, 88percentt failed math, 72percentt failed writing and 38percentt failed reading.

The state is now shooting for 2006 and has agreed that students who fail the tests will have "an equivalent demonstration opportunity," which sounds suspiciously like the kind of two-track system that exit tests are meant to abolish.

The Regents would thus become an "exit test" for high-school graduation.

"For the class of 2004, 20 states will require graduates to pass an exit test, and four more are adding them," said Keith Gayler, associate director of the Center on Education Policy.

Mr. Levy proposed changing the so-called exit test to make it easier for students to leave bilingual programs after three years and he urged giving parents the right, after three years, to withdraw their children from bilingual programs entirely.

That same year state education officials in Alabama approved an emergency rule allowing students to graduate if they passed just three sections of the exit test, rather than all five, as long as two were math and reading.

The exit strategy implemented this academic year involves two parts; exit survey and exit test.