I have two suggestions for improving the art of mathematics testing. 1. Cultural bias. Formulate the questions culture-independently. For example "What is the length of the diagonal of a 7 by 11 by 13 inch rectangular solid?" 2. Incorrectly stated problems, incorrect official answer, ambiguous interpretations. Post the exam questions and multiple choice answers on the internet, so anybody can criticize them. Build up a huge inventory of questions, all publicly available. Badly worded or ambiguous questions are fixed or removed. Questions are at all levels of difficulty. Exam administrators choose exam questions from this validated library. Students can access the library as part of their exam preparation. Will students memorize answers instead of learning the concepts? Perhaps, but by the time the library reaches several million questions, even the laziest student will be motivated to learn algorithms and concepts. Design the process so that teaching mathematics and teaching to the exam become coincident. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com