placement test

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Recent Examples of placement test Many have made reforms, including moving away from solely using a placement test to determine student classes to relying on additional factors like a student’s high school GPA. oregonlive, 7 June 2023 The program was to change the remediation model in most community colleges, where students who don’t do well on placement tests must take pre-college classes in their weak subject — essentially a repeat of high school. Ellen Dennis, al, 26 Apr. 2023 Research shows that results of standardized placement tests often correlate with race and socioeconomic status. Ellen Dennis, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023 Lee College let students who achieved close-to-qualifying scores on its placement test qualify through a college admissions exam (ACT or SAT) or state high school end-of-course exam. Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for placement test
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Noun
  • Plus, babies who use sign language before speaking learn to talk earlier, score higher on intelligence tests, develop a larger vocabulary, and display more self-confidence compared to their non-signing peers.
    Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 15 May 2025
  • The participants regularly took an intelligence test known as the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the wake of this pandemic, an aptitude test—call it the T.I.Q.—is developed to measure one’s ability to rotate brushes three-dimensionally inside holes.
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Even in those places, most will never experience combat, let alone need to pass another aptitude test.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, thanks to test screening audience feedback, Danica no longer suffers the same fate as Helen, and Cline didn’t learn that her character would survive the newest Fisherman’s wrath until the middle of June.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025
  • While the former Boise Young Rider Development Squad members are going wheel to wheel against the best in the world in Europe, the next generation of BYRDS cyclists put their skills to the test at the 38th annual criterium on Saturday in downtown Boise.
    Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 20 July 2025

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