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In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first
In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first
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2010-07-06
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In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will require them to write a timed essay. Yet colleges continue to send confusing signals about whether students applying in the fall to attend college must take the new exam.
Some schools, including Harvard, say they will accept scores from either the new test or the old SAT, which was administered for the last time in January and did not contain a writing section. The University of Central Florida, for example, will require the new test, which will be given for the first time on March 12. Still others, such as the University of Virginia, strongly recommend that prospective applicants take the new test but under some circumstances also will accept the old SAT. A number of colleges are delaying a decision. The College Board, which administers the SAT, surveyed more than 1,900 four-year schools and has heard back from slightly more than 500. Of those, 81% say they will require the new test, including schools such as Harvard that are giving students a choice in what will be a year of transition.
"Anything new goes through a special lens of evaluation," says Lee Stetson, admissions dean at the University of Pennsylvania, which judiciously will use results from the new writing section until officials have a chance to study the revised SAT’s predictive validity.
A number of admissions deans are skeptical that the new exam will be an improvement. Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions at Georgetown University, says adding the essay "will create more barriers to poor kids who are less well-prepared". The test was rushed to market because the University of California system, a major College Board customer, threatened to stop requiting the SAT, he says. The test "was developed and marketed for all the wrong reasons". Deacon, who says he has been "badgered" by the College Board to endorse the new exam, has refused to do so.
Some schools, including Georgetown, Iowa’s Grinnell College and Pennsylvania’s Franklin and Marshall College, say that at least for now, they will not even look at scores from the writing section when making admission decisions. "We have adopted a wait-and-see attitude," says Dennis Trotter of Franklin and Marshall.
College Board officials counter that based on extensive field tests, they are confident the test is as reliable a predictor of freshman-year performance as the old SAT. Moreover, they say, well-trained scorers, many of them, high school English teachers, will grade the essays, which students have 25 minutes to write.
Amidst all the confusion, what should students do? Admissions deans and school counselors say to be sure to check with each college for requirements.
If a student took the old SAT in January, he has to take another test if he applies for
选项
A、University of Virginia.
B、Georgetown University.
C、The University of Central Florida.
D、Harvard University.
答案
C
解析
本题考查细节理解。本题的问题是:“如果一位学生已于一月参加了老的SAT考试,他申请哪所学校时还必须再次参加考试”。这个问题实际上是问哪所学校只接受新的SAT测试的成绩。根据原文可以看出,这个问题出现在列举不同学校反应的第二段,选项中的四所学校,只有the University of Central Florida要求新SAT考试成绩。所以答案应为C 。
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