11.   Some critics of these services say that students who are not prepared for college should not be there and that colleges should not be offering remedial help.

12.   Students would get three chances on the test and receive remedial help, tutoring, or summer school, with each failure.

13.   Students in need of serious remedial help in English or other subjects might even be given help in the summer before entering college.

14.   Texas students are given several opportunities to pass the exit exam, and those who fail it the first time are given intensive remedial help.

15.   The law requires local school systems to set up programs that provide remedial help to all students, in public or private schools.

16.   They want more remedial help.

17.   Those who fare poorly receive remedial help, either during or after school.

18.   Thousands of students are still entering the system needing remedial help.

19.   Alan Ray, a spokesman for the state Education Department, said the purpose of the tests is to identify students who need remedial help.

20.   The justices have also allowed taxpayer-funded computers and remedial help by public school teachers at religious schools.