1.   I was awarded seventeen points out of twenty but judging by the worried looks and furrowed brows there were some lower scores.

2.   Patents, for example, always have lower scores.

3.   Although girls receive higher grades on average than boys in both high school and college, girls have long earned lower scores on both the standardized tests.

4.   Although girls, on average, receive higher grades than boys in high school, girls have long received lower scores on both the PSAT and SAT.

5.   And evidence has been mounting that children with abnormally low levels of the fatty acids in their brains have slightly but significantly impaired brain development and lower IQ scores.

6.   Both times, he says, he was passed over in favor of minorities with lower scores.

7.   A lower score can lead to an arrest for driving while impaired, a traffic infraction, but not the seizure of the car.

8.   A former white employee for Cracker Barrel said Tuesday that the company told her to give blacks lower scores when they applied for jobs.

9.   A school in which a large percentage of students takes an exam will likely produce lower average scores than a school in which only top-flight students participate.

10.   But because blacks tend to have lower standardized scores, Miller says, blacks still end up underrepresented in the pool, unless the threshold is dropped.