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The Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is a national examination taken by all primary school students in Singapore near the end of the sixth year, before they leave for secondary school. It is administered by the Ministry of Education. This nationwide examination tests the English language, mother tongue languages (Chinese, Malay, or Tamil), mathematics and science. Each subject paper is around 2 hours long, with this time varying by fifteen minutes, except for certain components of language subjects. Multiple choice questions are tested using a standardised optical answer sheet (OAS) that uses optical mark recognition for detecting answers. Image File history File links Wikibooks-logo-en. ... Wikibooks logo Wikibooks, previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, is a wiki for the creation of books. ... To examine somebody or something is to inspect it closely, hence an examination is a detailed inspection or analysis of an object or person. ... A primary school in Český Těšín, Poland Primary education is the first stage of compulsory education. ... Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Ministry of Education Headquarters at Buona Vista The Ministry Of Education is a ministry of the government of Singapore that directs the formulation and implementation of policies related to education in Singapore. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. ... Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... A multiple choice question is a question where several possible answers are given in a list, and the respondent must choose the best answer from that list. ... An optical answer sheet (or bubble sheet) is a special type of form used in multiple choice question examinations. ... Optical mark recognition is the process of capturing data by contrasting reflectivity at predetermined positions on a page. ...

The PSLE's format and omnipresence in the Singapore education system itself not only make it an examination, but a national culture and system in itself. The PSLE is a culmination of primary education in Singapore, and its format can be found in primary school examinations beside the PSLE itself, even from primary one. PSLE material has also been exported to other countries.

Examination subjects and procedure

The format of the examinations within the PSLE has been revised consistently throughout its history, in order to suit the Ministry of Education's policy. However, the standard examination procedure retains many of the same elements throughout the years despite the changes being made to the requirements of each question, the score allocated to each question and the revisions in emphasis. In a game the score refers to the amount of points achieved by a player or team. ...

Language examination and qualification

In order to test the students' grasp of the language subjects, such as the English or mother tongue languages at the end of primary school, there are several separate examinations. As the student is usually required to take both mother tongue and the English language, (with exceptions of exemption or additional languages), the average student repeats the following procedures twice. With each mother tongue subject there are two levels of examination, the standard and the higher mother tongue subject, which often depends on what age the language was first introduced to the pupil and how good the pupil is at the language. Whether a higher mother tongue subject is taken determines whether a student is in the EM1 (higher) stream or the EM2 stream (standard).

The format tends to vary by language, but each language examination usually has an oral examination, testing the students' proficiency to speak the language, a listening comprehension examination, testing the students' ability to comprehend spoken messages in daily situations, an examination to test composition and the student's proficiency in writing in various scenarios, and finally an examination testing written use of the language. For the Xscape song, see Understanding (song). ... The term Composition, in written language, refers to the process and study of creating written works or pieces of literature. ...

English language

The oral examination for the English language usually lasts about five to ten minutes per student; however, students are held in a "holding room" before the examination, and based on which student takes the test first, the waiting time can be extensive. The last person to be called may wait more than two hours in a class of 40 because of the nature of the examination.

The examination tests the students' fluency and skills of oral communication in the language by requiring the student to articulate unseen material that is revealed to a student only five minutes before meeting his or her examiners. As the same material is used throughout for a single day, the holding room is used to prevent communication between those who have taken the examination and those who have not. Because of the long time period of the examination, the examination is often divided into two days of two separate sets of material each to reduce the inefficiency caused by the waiting time.

The maximum score for this examination is 30. The oral examination is divided into three sections: students are required to describe and interpret a picture as thoroughly and detailed as possible in a clockwise or anti-clockwise way, and using extensive use of prepositions and landmark cues such as "foreground, background, left-hand corner" for examples, and giving comments about their actions in a formal way and predict the consequence of such an action, and this being graded on a score of 10. It is advised that students do not point to the picture and jump all over the place and no names should be given and everything to be said in present tense. The student is then required to read aloud from a passage fluently, this also having a score of 10. The final section requires the students to answer any questions the teachers asks of them based on either of the two sections, which often require their opinion and inference, and provides the final ten marks. The examination is judged by two teachers who have to agree on a single score for each student, both giving two scores and taking the average. Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not speaking (or signing) the same language. ... For images in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Images. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with adposition. ... Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based solely on what one already knows. ...

A listening comprehension examination will then test the students' ability to comprehend the spoken English language in various daily situations, and is comprised of twenty multiple choice questions which is based on information contained in audio played to the students, and the examination is taken as a class, not individually; this particular examination lasts around twenty minutes, with the maximum score being 20. This article is about audible acoustic waves. ...

There is a two-section composition question comprising of functional writing, also known as situational writing, where students write an informal or a formal letter, memo or note, and "situational writing",an essay usually written in the form of a narrative or third person drama. These two sections last a total of one hour and ten minutes. The functional section has a score value of 15; the maximum essay score 40. Two teachers are required to grade a composition paper, and the disparity in scoring made by each teacher should be minimal, and the average of the scoring taken if the disparity is small in order to yield the score for the questions. If the disparity is too large, the question papers are required to be re-graded, this time with three teachers. The term Composition, in written language, refers to the process and study of creating written works or pieces of literature. ... For other uses, see Letter (disambiguation). ... A memorandum is an informal, or recorded, form of communication, usually used by businesses from executives to employees. ... For other uses, see Essay (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The third-person Narrative is narration in the third person. ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... For university teachers, see professor. ...

The essay section in particular usually avoids giving questions requiring logical argument and favours scenic or event description. This stands in contrast to some of the questions asked often in the General Certificate of Education (O levels). The examination paper asks the students to choose from two questions. The first question takes the form of a picture, representing a scene in which the students are supposed to write about and describe, and the second takes the form of a given situation or scenario, each including writing criteria, such as the required setting of each of the two questions in which the students are supposed to fulfil. In logic, an argument is a set of statements, consisting of a number of premises, a number of inferences, and a conclusion, which is said to have the following property: if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true or highly likely to be true. ... The General Certificate of Education or GCE is a secondary-level academic qualification, which is used in Britain as well as in some former British colonies. ... For images in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Images. ... Setting is a term in literature and drama usually referring to the time and location in which a story takes place. ...

The final examination testing the students' proficiency in the language is a written paper which tests the student's comprehension of the written language being tested, and usually lasts about 1 hour and 50 minutes in length. It has a total score value of 95. Multiple choice questions are given in the first section of the written paper, and tests grammar, where students are required to spot a mistake in tense and provide the correct conjugate or word form, or provide correct punctuation which as of 2005 has a weight of 15. It also tests vocabulary the students are required to choose a word from a list that fills in a blank that will express a sentence logically, with a current weight of 5. Students then are provided five questions, with a total weight of 10, where the student is to synthesise (join) two sentences together into one complete, grammatically coherent and agreeable sentence. Following this ten sentences with highlighted spelling and grammar mistakes which are supposed to be copyedited, with a total weight of 10. A cloze passage with a total of ten items and a weight of 10 is provided to the student; the passage tests grammar specifically. For the rules of English grammar, see English grammar and Disputes in English grammar. ... In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ... The term punctuation has two different linguistic meanings: in general, the act and the effect of punctuating, i. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ... Copy editing is the process of an editor making formatting changes and other improvements to text. ... Cloze (from closure) is a form of examination technique, commonly but not limited to use on young children and students of English as an additional language to test writing and comprehension skills. ...

After this, students are given a cloze passage testing comprehension as opposed to grammar, which currently has a weight of 15 in which they fill in blanks with words from a box. Students may be given a graphical stimulus; students will answer multiple-choice questions based on the graphical stimulus. Students are then given a passage to comprehend, and are tested first by answering five multiple choice questions about it, with a total weight of 5, and answering in full sentences ten open-ended questions with a total weight of 20.

To yield the final grade for the student taking the language, all of the students' examination scores for that language are added; as the maximum total score is 200, the total is divided by 200% to yield the students' percentage score for the language subject. The format described is the standard format for 2005; it varies slightly in weight for each section, with deletions of some sections if the student is taking Foundation English as part of the EM3 stream. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Science examination and qualification

The science paper lasts for around 1 hour and 45 minutes. Students are given 30 multiple choice questions with a weight of two marks of each, thus a total weight of 60; 16 open-ended questions, with weights of 2,3 or 4 marks each measure proficiency in several units of the curriculum, with a total weight of 40. The syllabus covers various aspects of chemistry, physics and biology, and basic interpretation of statistics on a primary school level. These distinctions into different fields are not made in the examination format but can be derived based on the different themes: For other uses, see Chemistry (disambiguation). ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ... Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not speaking (or signing) the same language. ... This article is about the field of statistics. ...

Physics

• energy, its forms such as heat, basic thermodynamics in a system and the conservation of it
• force, simple machines
• Biogeochemical cycles: water cycle, nitrogen cycle, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere
• matter and fundamentals of materials science, mass and physical properties, discrete particles, phases of matter, effects of heat on matter
• Electromagnetism and its components electricity and magnetism
• Basic astrophysics: solar system, etc.

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Biology

• Human anatomy: sense, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, muscular and skeletal system, digestive system
• Scientific classification of life
• Plants and their parts, poisonous plants, methods of defense and photosynthesis, transport in plants, active transport
• Harms and uses of different plants and animals, overall knowledge of role each organism plays in an ecosystem, predator and prey relationships
• Animal gestation and plant germination, growth, and life cycles
• Sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction, flowers, dispersal of fruit, classifying recognising plants' methods of reproduction and dispersal
• Biological production and population growth: recognising reasons for an exponential and logistic function in a graph
• Adaptation of life to the environment, basic evolutionary theory
• Cellular biology

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Chemistry

• Chemical testing for presence of various substances: lime water to test for carbon dioxide, iodine solution to test for starch, inference about interconnected interactions and processes to yield products
• Testing for results of biological processes
• Pollution and steps to combat pollution

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Mathematics

The mathematics examination in the PSLE is often one of its most distinctive elements due to its format and style in contrast to most other examinations in other countries. The examination is two hours and fifteen minutes long, and is divided into three sections, "section A", "section B" and "section C". Section A is multiple choice and consists of fifteen questions, the first ten being one point each in score value, and the other five being two points, and account for 20% of the examination score in total. Section B requires open-ended input, and consists of twenty questions, the first ten questions are worth one point and the other ten questions are worth two points. They usually require little effort from the students and are meant to test individual knowledge components of the student. Section C is worth 50 points, and consists of several questions, worth 3-5 points. The questions are usually arranged in escalating difficulty, and the questions towards the end have received a degree of controversy from parents and educators from other countries.

Long-answer questions in the PSLE worth four or five marks tend to be in two types, a heuristic type of question, which usually requires students to form a new theorem, concept or algorithm from pre-existing knowledge in order to solve the question, although this does not have to be shown; however a logical statement and evidence connecting the question to the answer has to be shown in order to be awarded marks. This often takes form in questions which introduces limits, sequences and series, whether geometric or arithmetic, and linear algebra. The second type, a structured type of question is usually more predictable but arguably more tedious and find answers for systems of equations contained in a word problem. For other uses, see Heuristic (disambiguation). ... Wikibooks Calculus has a page on the topic of Limits In mathematics, the concept of a limit is used to describe the behavior of a function as its argument either gets close to some point, or as it becomes arbitrarily large; or the behavior of a sequences elements as... This is a page about mathematics. ... In mathematics, a series is often represented as the sum of a sequence of terms. ... In mathematics, a geometric progression is a sequence of numbers such that the quotient of any two successive members of the sequence is a constant called the common ratio of the sequence. ... This is a page about mathematics. ... Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with the study of vectors, vector spaces (also called linear spaces), linear maps (also called linear transformations), and systems of linear equations. ... In Mathematics simultaneous equations, or systems of equations, are a set of equations containing multiple variables. ...

The mathematics examination in the PSLE has faced complaints from parents who complain about material outside the syllabus, while facing criticism from some educators from overseas who argue that the examination eventually encourages rote rather than actual conceptual knowledge based on incentives to the student. The 2005 paper drew criticism due to the poor setting of one of the multiple-choice questions, as mentioned below. A parent is a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian // Mother This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Rote memory be merged into this article or section. ...

Scoring and post-examination procedure

Although the students have an absolute score, each student's absolute score are compared with other students in order to yield an aggregate score, and the students are ranked according to that basis. This allows the examination to accommodate for overly easy or overly difficult questions. Typically aggregate scores range from 0 to 300. In 2002 and 2005 coincidentally, for example, the highest aggregate score for the PSLE was 285 and the lowest aggregate score was 86. [1] The aggregate score is a used in football (soccer). ...

All examination scripts are shipped to the Ministry of Education for processing, which then sends them to other teachers in Singapore on a random basis for marking. Part of this procedure is to prevent possible bias in marking, either intentional or unintentional, that may result when teachers mark examination scripts of students from their own schools. The multiple choice questions are graded by a machine in the Ministry of Education, which reads the OAS sheets. For other senses of this word, see bias (disambiguation). ...

Pupils who fail the PSLE would be retained in primary school to retake the PSLE in the EM3 stream the following year.

Pupils who pass are required to choose up to six secondary schools to which they would be posted by aggregate score. A computer will then allocate slots to each school's intake for the next year. In line with the ideals of meritocracy, all pupils who attempted the PSLE would be "queued" in order of merit, with the places in schools being filled up from the highest scorer to the lowest scorer. Thus the pupil with a higher aggregate score would get into his school of second choice (if he was not accepted into his school of first choice) over a pupil with a lower aggregate score who chose the same school as the first choice. The score of the last student who was allocated is known as the cutoff score for the school for that year. This article is about the machine. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

If none of the six schools chosen accept the student, the Ministry of Education will work towards finding a school that based on proximity and location, rather than academic excellence of the school, without consulting the student. This makes proper selection of the six choices important. Priority organisation of the choices is also important; if the student's score both meets the requirements of the school of his or her third choice and second choice for example, the second choice will be allocated without the student being able to change his or her decisions.

Before 2003, students picked their choices before they took the examination and received their score. From 2003, students picked their choices after they received their score, after complaints by parents they could not make informed choices about their children's secondary schools before the examination scores were received, as the pupils might perform much better or much worse than expected. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History and past performance

2007 examination

In the year 2007, Natasha Nabila binte Muhamad Nasif, an uber nerdy Malay girl from St. Hilda's Primary School scored 294, which is the highest aggregate ever scored in the history of PSLE. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The St. ...

2006 examination

In the year 2006, the top student was Rebecca M.R.J. from Raffles Girls' Primary School with an aggregate of 281. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Raffles Girls Primary School (RGPS) is a primary school for girls located in Bukit Timah, Singapore. ...

2005 examination

Performance

In the year 2005, 51,087 pupils sat for the examination, a 0.4% increase from the previous year. Out of the total 5434 were from EM3. The majority (or 97.8%) of the pupils could proceed for secondary school. 62.2% of those who passed were eligible for the Special/Express course and the remaining 35.6% were eligible for either the Normal (Academic) or Normal (Technical) courses. 1133 pupils (2.2%) of the cohort assessed was not ready for secondary school in the year 2006 or are more suited for vocational training. The top student of 2005 was Adil Hakeem B Mohamad Rafee from Rosyth School. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vocational education (or Vocational Education and Training (VET)) prepares learners for careers or professions that are traditionally non-academic and directly related to a trade, occupation or vocation in which the learner participates. ... Rosyth School is a government co-educational primary school in Singapore. ...

Controversy on flaws in papers

The 2005 mathematics paper for EM1 or EM2 students was flawed due to a question having no definite method of working the answer out. The "Question 13" was spotted by many and became infamous. The question was mathematically inconsistent in that one will get one set of answers when worked out one way and another set of answers when worked out by a different answer. The Singapore Examinations and Assessments Board acknowledged the mistake a few days after the exam, annulling the question and awarding 2 marks to every student for the question.

Other methods of admission to secondary schools

Students have the choice to go to other schools which does not use the posting system. Some of the top schools and the government schools have Direct School Admission. Some can go to other schools such as Singapore Sports School or the Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road). The Singapore Sports School (Chinese: 新加坡体育学校) is a specialized independent school in Singapore. ... Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) is a secondary school of the Anglo-Chinese School family located at the Barker Road campus, Singapore. ...

Direct School Admission

Main article: Direct School Admission

Independent schools and Autonomous schools can admit up to 20% and 10% of their students via the Direct School Admission scheme (abb. DSA) respectively. Students apply through exercises conducted by the schools around July and August, receiving notice of the results shortly after. Schools offering the Integrated Programme can take in as many students as they want via DSA. Other schools have also been granted permission by the Ministry to take in students specialising in the schools' niche areas up to a maximum of 5% of their total student intake. Primary Schools Admiralty Primary School Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School Anderson Primary School Ang Mo Kio Primary School Balestier Hill Primary School Bedok Green Primary School Bedok West Primary School Bendemeer Primary School Blangah Rise Primary School Boon Lay Garden Primary School Bukit Panjang Primary School Bukit Timah Primary School Bukit... Primary Schools Admiralty Primary School Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School Anderson Primary School Ang Mo Kio Primary School Balestier Hill Primary School Bedok Green Primary School Bedok West Primary School Bendemeer Primary School Blangah Rise Primary School Boon Lay Garden Primary School Bukit Panjang Primary School Bukit Timah Primary School Bukit... The Integrated Programme (Abbreviation: IP), also known as through-train programme (直通车), is a scheme which allows the cream of secondary schools in Singapore to bypass the O levels and take the A levels, International Baccalaureate or an equivalent examination directly at the age of 18 after six years of secondary...

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International schools

Since 2004, two international schools were given licenses to operate under the Ministry of Education's compulsory practices such as playing the National Anthem, and following the nation's bilingual policies, to allow Singaporean or Singapore Permanent Resident students to enter without the Ministry's permission. These schools were granted the permission in April 2004 and started the school year in January 2005. They are Anglo-Chinese School (International) and Hwa Chong International. Another school was granted the permission to set up a school similar to the original two in 2006, the school is SJI International which offers a similar programme to ACS (International). ` Majulah Singapura (Malay for Onward Singapore) is Singapores national anthem. ... Name Anglo-Chinese School (International) Abbreviation ACS (International) School Code N. A. Chinese Name 英华国际学校 Pinyin Yīng Huá Guójì Xuéxiào Malay {{{malay}}} Tamil {{{tamil}}} Address 61 Jalan Hitam Manis Country Singapore Area Holland Village Founded 2005 Type International, Private Session Full day school Students Mixed Levels Secondary... Name Hwa Chong International School Abbreviation HCIS School Code - Address 663, Bukit Timah Road S(269783) Country Singapore Town Bukit Timah Founded 2005 Community Urban Type Private Secondary/Junior College Religion Secular Students Mixed (Secondary 1–JC 2) Levels Secondary 1–JC 2 Colours Red, Yellow Website Link Hwa Chong... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St. ...

Singapore Sports School

Main article: Singapore Sports School

The Singapore Sports School is for students who are perceived by the school to excel in sports it offers. This includes swimming, badminton, table tennis, football or soccer, golf, track and field and sailing. It was opened in January 2004 and the school takes students directly into the school provided they have an active background in the sports offered by the school. When the school had its first intake, many students applied who were judged to excel in their sport but were posted to the Normal (Academic) or Normal (technical) streams. The school rejected these pupils as the school sought pupils who excelled both physically and academically. The school was criticised for being too result wise instead of grooming them into future sportsmen. Some of the students were finally accepted on an appeal basis after that. Students in the school aim for the International Baccalaureate (IB) paper as it is less strenuous in comparison to the A' Levels, allowing the students to focus on their sports, the Singapore Arts School follows similarly. The Singapore Sports School (Chinese: 新加坡体育学校) is a specialized independent school in Singapore. ... Swimmer redirects here. ... This article is about the sport. ... “Ping Pong” redirects here. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the sport. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... For either of the songs named Sailing, see Sailing (song). ... January 2004 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Irelands Roman Catholic and Protestant Boy Scouts organisations merge after nearly a century of division, in spite of efforts by the Roman Catholic bishops to block the merger. ...

NUS High School

Main article: NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

The NUS High School of Mathematics and Science opened in 2005 with an intake of 225 Secondary 1 and 3 students, offering a six-year program leading to the NUS High Diploma. Students will also sit for Advanced Placement and Scholastic Assessment Test examinations in the senior years for benchmarks for admission into foreign universities. The school offers an accelerated mathematics and science curriculum based on a modular system, also offering languages, humanities, arts, and other elective subjects integrated into its modular system. Students are admitted based on several factors, performance in an application form, interviews, tests, and an admission camp. 25 places out of the 170 places offered in 2007 are also reserved for Primary 6 students wishing to apply with their PSLE results. Name NUS High School of Mathematics & Science Abbreviation NUSHS School Code 7801 Chinese Name 新加坡国立大学附属数理中学 Malay Name Sekolah Tingggi NUS Location 20, Clementi Ave 1, Singapore 129957 Country Singapore Town Clementi Founded 2005 Community Urban Type Specialized Independent School (Integrated Programme School) Religion Secular Students Mixed Levels Year 1-6 (equivalents... A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school. ... Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ... The SATs (pronounced S-A-T not sat) are standardized tests, formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and Scholastic Assessment Tests, frequently used by colleges and universities in the United States to aid in the selection of incoming freshmen. ...

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