David Payne Quotations

We are dropping those item types and adding new item types that really demonstrate they understand the reading or the thesis of an argument.

There is a chance Chris Munce will come back from Hong Kong to ride her in the Caulfield Cup at that weight,

Biggest win, ... The kids just played phenomenal. They executed the game plan well. The defense stepped up and the offense made big plays.

It's just nice to be able to represent somebody that people can genuinely look up to. He really could be a hero.

I thought about rolling the dice and going for two. But I felt we had the momentum.

We will have to wait to see what the board says.

Instead of antonyms and analogies, which depend on vocabulary, we want to measure the ability to understand reading passages, so we would ask students to indicate the sentence in a passage where the author presents an argument contrary to his thesis, or find the two sentences that are equivalent,

If you look at her last run it was great, she was wide and covered more ground than any other horse and was only beaten about four lengths by Paratroopers,

They still say it's a very demanding test, and it is.

The revamp is in response to graduate schools' desires for additional information on students' ability in verbal reasoning and quantitative. It's also very much security, and to ensure that the scores we report are valid.