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This is great. I think the changes to the essay portion are excellent. As a native english speaker, my instinct is to emphasize the essay part - but I realize
by devindotcom 13y ago
This is great. I think the changes to the essay portion are excellent.
As a native english speaker, my instinct is to emphasize the essay part - but I realize that's idealistic. Still, I think essays and writing are critical for showing one's ability to synthesize (there's that word) and organize one's ideas or those of others. I think writing should be emphasized and multiple native languages supported... but that's work for the next revision. This one is certainly welcome.
- walshemj 13y agoSucks really badly for dyslexics though.
- devindotcom 13y agoAgreed... a test that aims to be as broadly applicable as possible should accommodate as many variations and common problems as possible. It may be the difference between 20 million people taking it and 20.3 million, but for that .3 million it's incredibly important.
- walshemj 13y agoYes probably needs the ability to do an oral Viva - funnily enough one of my uncles did that at Oxford back in the 50's for his MA as his writing was so bad :-)