Scholastic Aptitude Test

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A test that purportedly measures the aptitude of high-schoolers for college. Originally devised in 1926, it was not widely employed by colleges to select students until the 1950s and 1960s.

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The SAT is controversial. College admissions officers have relied on it, but critics contend that it contains cultural biases that work against the admission of African-Americans and other minorities.

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The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
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Apparently, the company “failed to properly test its systems.”
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If it was the United States, the operation will test the bounds of international law.
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One chemical test involves measuring the relative amount of deuterium in water.
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Whether it was actual ignorance, senility, or some obscure test, it's hard to know.
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For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
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The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
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The phloridzin test consists in the hypodermic injection of a small quantity of phloridzin.
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We have seen enough elsewhere of the multiplication of Commentaries on the Sentences of the Lombard and other scholastic works.
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Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.
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