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Computer gets it wrong on MCAT

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney January 30, 2007 06:10 AM

About 800 students encountered mistakes -- questions on songbirds after a passage about robotic fish, for example -- on the Medical College Admission Test last weekend, the first time the test was administered only by computer rather than by paper and pencil, according to a story in today's New York Times.

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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.