Sentence examples for students for tests from inspiring English sources

She said too much classroom time was being used to prepare students for tests.

Instead, he said, it could mean that schools were spending more time in drilling students for tests.

However, the real problem with the law is its obsession with preparing students for tests, testing them and then agonizing over the test results.

On each occasion, the local authorities sent blood samples from poisoned students for tests and launched an investigation into the circumstances.

The mayor said the city would work to expand the number of advanced level Regents classes in middle school, which prepare students for tests they are required to pass in order to graduate from high school.

What the latest test results show is that when you prepare students for tests, they score higher; when you spend a year preparing them, you risk invalidating the assessment; and even with intensive advanced preparation, children from inner-city minority communities are still performing poorly.

I was shocked that educated professionals would support an initiative to pay students for test scores.

Paying students for test scores reduces the teaching of English to a transaction, one in which a teacher sells students methods of fooling test graders.

The program has provoked much debate about whether paying students for test-taking undercuts the notion that learning is its own reward.

Sample tablets will soon be sent to students for testing and feedback, a process the ministry officials said should be concluded in the next few months.

Re "Next Question: Can Students Be Paid to Excel?" (front page, March 5), about a program to reward teachers and students for test performance at P.S. 188 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan: I was a student teacher at P.S. 188 and am familiar with the school's focus on state tests.