Sentence examples for lowering the test from inspiring English sources

The second, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's efforts, on behalf of the War on Poverty, to induct and educate the "subterranean poor" by lowering the test score requirements that had kept them out of the Army, was, she says, by and large a failure.

Correct this temperature for the difference in barometric pressure from the standard atmospheric pressure (101.3 kPa) by raising the test temperature for a higher pressure or lowering the test temperature for a lower pressure by 1.0 °C for each 4 kPa difference.

Specimen thickness, within the range studied, was found to have little or no effect on the peak (failure) strength of ice, while lowering the test temperature from −10 to −30 °C had a considerable effect, with ice behaving stronger at the lower test temperature.

Or, they must accept that the students will take a test that covers material they have not yet seen, jeopardizing their jobs and lowering the test-taking confidence of their students.

The war had started and they raised the weight limit and lowered the test scores, so pretty much anyone could get in.

The manipulator was used to lower the test probes into the petri dish containing the anemones.

Using the Instron machine to lower the testing strip still further, a load is exerted on the key.

"Testing is becoming cheaper and quicker, and there could be advantages in lowering the threshold for testing.

Curtailment lowered the average test length by 22% while maintaining the same sensitivity and specificity as the full-length COMM.

Donohue said the state will test lowering the target speed but didn't say what the new target would be.

A 2005 study in Northern California found that a television in the bedroom lowered the standardized-test scores of third graders.