Newsday (New York)
November 9, 1993, Tuesday, NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION
Graduate Exam Will Be Revised
The nation's largest publisher of college-entrance exams acknowledges that it is removing a new type of question from its Graduate Record Exam - the test most often taken by graduate-school applicants - in response to a shortcut solution recently discovered by a private tutoring firm.
The question type, known as "pattern identification," presents a series of five numbers and then asks students to select an answer that best describes the pattern of numbers involved.
Researchers at Kaplan Educational Centers, a nationwide tutoring firm based in Manhattan, discovered a way to skip the arithmetic to determine the pattern.
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