Education Report - Entrance Exams Cause Problems at University of Liberia

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examinations have been causing problems at the University of in Monrovia. The exams help to decide whom the will accept as a student. The trouble began after education specialist, James Dorbor Jallah, was named to direct administer the testing. Recently, about 25,000 high school students the test, but failed. Mr. Dorbor Jallah says he his team want to show that a fair examination be held. He says some Liberians think they cannot the university unless they make a financial gift in . He said the university has been trying to decide to oversee the process so that people's abilities would measured on the basis of their performance on the . Last year, the University of Liberia accepted about 7,000 students after they took a similar exam. But that was judged differently. Mr. Dorbor Jallah says the university his help because it had problems in the past entrance exams. The country's minister of education says she not think that all the students failed the test. of the students have held protests at the university. say they were cheated out of more than $20, was required to register for the test. It appeared the university would have no first-year students until Liberian Ellen Johnson Sirleaf met with university officials. The officials said they would lower admission test requirements and accept least 1,600 people. Mr. Dorbor Jallah says the most test results were based on raw scores. A raw does not take in account how well individuals perform a group of students. For VOA Learning English, I'm Presutti

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