2.08.03: Dictionary Use/Regents' Test
SUBJECT: Use of Dictionaries on the Regents' Test
SOURCE: Memorandum from Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to Chief Academic
Officers, 9/19/86
PROCEDURES
Beginning fall quarter, 1986, students will be permitted to use dictionaries during the final fifteen minutes of the administration of the essay portion of the Regents' Test. Students who wish to use dictionaries must bring their own dictionaries to the test administration. In order to insure the smooth implementation of this provision, it is essential that each student be informed, in advance of the test administration, of the opportunity to bring a dictionary. Written notification should be provided to students registered to take the test, and may be provided as part of test registration materials if students receive such materials on your campus.
The Regents' Testing Coordinator on your campus has been notified of this provision through the office of the Director of the Regents' Testing Program.
The use of dictionaries as described above was recommended by the Academic Committee on English and the Administrative Committee on Academic Affairs, and was subsequently approved for implementation by the Chancellor on May 19, 1986.
Last Updated: 03/25/1988
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