Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.
VOA: standard.2010.02.02
Students were given new experiences to build backgroundknowledge and practice social skills.
"A failure to ensure that health professionals in the neo-natal unit had background medical knowledge on this family, " for example, and a failure to properly respond in detail when one neo-natal nurse did express some concerns.