High school students to get five chances on exit exams

Friday, July 25, 1997 | 9:18 a.m.

The bad news is that they won't be allowed to use calculators for the new five-hour test.

The test will be administered for the first time in April 1998. But juniors will take it as a "dress rehearsal" this October.

The state board had wanted the administer the test at a later date.

But the Nevada Legislature, in a move to raise educational standards, enacted a law forcing the use of the new test in the 1997-98 school year.

The test, which includes a two-hour math segment, a two-hour reading part and an hour-long writing portion, was written over the past two years by educators across the state.

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