3. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and the width by 40% by what per cent is the area increased. (a) 4 (b) 15.4 (c) 50 (d) 54 (e) 400.
4. Which of the three statements is irrelevant to the premise: The Industrial revolution and the development of applied science have benefited the human race.
1--Human progress has been synonymous with the increase of leisure.
2--Urban life develops men's highest faculties.
3--A dangerous situation exists when a large proportion of society is not living on the soil.
5. The love between the man and his son shines out as the ----- feature amid the surrounding and self-destruction. (a) sole (b) usual (c) characteristic (d) saving (e) Indefinable. agencies would be judged, increase research in the area of testing, and accelerate the development of new types of test." Under this agreement the ETS took full responsibility for the forming and administration of the college admissions tests. At the same time, the Board maintained the right to develop all policies for the tests and to serve as the national group responsible for facilitating the transfer between high school and college.
This division of function--or "merger" at it is sometimes referred to--has developed exceedingly well, with the two groups cooperating with usual felicity.
A good deal of the credit for the ease in which both CEEB and ETS passed through this transition period belongs to Henry Chauncey, the Testing Service's president. Chauncey, the Testing Service's president. Chauncey, an ex-Crimson football star and director of the college's scholarship program before the war, served as Director of the College Board prior to the founding of ETS.
As to the success of Chauncey's seven years in office, we may look at the Service's statement of organization, published in December, 1947. The ETS Board of Trustees, headed by President Emeritus James B. Conant, concluded its report with the following sentence:
"In view of the great need for research in all areas and the long-range importance of this work to the future development of sound educational programs it is the hope of those who have brought the ETS into being that it may fundamental contributions to the progress of education in the United States."
That was 1947. In 1954, Chauncey could survey the Educational Testing Service's 16 programs, and rest with assurance that ETS has to a large extent fulfilled the lofty goals set just seven short years ago.
Answers to Sample Questions
1, e; 2, b; 3, d; 4, c; 5. d.