Standardized exams are structured to test one's mental skills such as short term memory. So a lot of times, you will find a student who just take a vocab memory class, or a prep class a month or two before the exam and end up scoring higher on these standardized tests than another student, who academically has a much higher overall GPA.                  	                  
                  
                
                  
                   
					 
					 Faye
             
                  	Faye
                    Posted on: 10-Jun-10 
                    
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