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Teach First insists on top degrees for its recruits, but candidates also undergo a day-long programme of aptitude tests, including role play, teamwork and a teaching practice session.
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The Consumer Finance Association (CFA), which represents the main loan companies, says the industry's new code of practice has brought in more robust affordability tests and increased transparency about charges.
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The course structure consists of lectures, practice sessions at sites and oral and written tests.
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Teachers received practice tests aligned with the Common Core last summer and fall so they could begin preparing their students, but many districts don't yet have the necessary books and materials to teach them.
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Suggestions also include fewer practice tests, one day of tests instead of two, and two tests instead of three.
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Hiring pathologists boosts revenue for a practice and creates a potential incentive to increase the number of tests ordered, said Jean Mitchell, a Georgetown University economist and author of the study.
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In an effort to contribute to the solution, nine physician specialty groups, each representing the interests of their respective physician members while serving to advance the quality of practice in their medical specialty, have issued lists of medical tests that they consider overused and often unnecessary.
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Lord Hoffman, in the ruling on the case, said the tests had no relation to the shallow well serving Mr Sutradhar's village, and it was not the practice at the time to test for arsenic.
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Joining the Euro is in my view a sensible thing for this country to do in principle but in practice the economic tests we've laid down have to be met because it is an economic and monetary union.
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It is not enough to stop the practice of defensive medicine, but when doctors are asked by their colleagues to justify the tests they ordered and the procedures they performed, perhaps they will be reminded that more is not always better.
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