Each student completed the test alone, but half were told they were competing against ten other people and the other half that they were competing against 100.
Sotomayor countered that those were signs test scores alone do not offer the full measure of a person's capability.
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This kind of financial aid is called academic merit aid, and few colleges offer it based just on grades and test scores alone.
It's also clear that there's much we want to know about student, teacher and school performance that cannot be determined from test results alone.
She said in 1990 that she felt she was a "product of affirmative action" and questioned whether she would have been accepted into the Ivy League using "traditional numbers" from test scores alone.
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Incredibly, considering there have been 1604 Tests prior to the second Sri Lanka Test at Edgbaston, that is the only instance of both keepers scoring hundreds in the same Test, let alone the same innings.
Tendulkar, having passed 6, 000 Test runs in India alone, edged a drive at a flighted ball from Harris and was well taken at slip.
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Any one of these challenges alone would test our country.
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He counts nine young test and measurement companies in China alone.
Sheer pixel density alone meant that our test run of Need for Speed: Most Wanted looked even better on Project Shield than it did on the PC running it.
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The findings demonstrate the volunteers cannot distinguish between wines by taste alone, the organisers of the test say.
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So an affluence test based on the woman's income alone could, for example, catch a civil servant but let off the wife of a merchant banker.
Paul Ridker, the Harvard cardiologist who headed up the study, notes that all of these patients should still be taking cholesterol drugs, and that this gene alone probably won't be turned into a diagnostic test.
To test their theory they monitored the daily outdoor routines of two people, one was alone and the other was accompanied by a dog trained to ignore passers-by so it would initiate social contact.
Arimidex failed another test as well: Data show that the two drugs given together worked no better than tamoxifen alone over a three-year period--even though Arimidex bested tamoxifen over the same time frame.
The second test for evaluating a sci-fi scenario is whether it makes the mistake of assuming that technology alone shapes the future.
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