1.   Poverty depressed the black college-attendance rate, but so did low high school graduation rates and poor performance on standardized tests.

2.   Schools are required to give students national standardized tests.

3.   Scores on standardized tests have been steadily falling over the past ten years.

4.   Students who had completed the program scored significantly higher on standardized tests.

5.   The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.

6.   He tends to perform poorly on standardized tests.

7.   Also in June, as Hartford was negotiating with the company, Baltimore released standardized test scores for its nine schools that also showed improvement.

8.   Also sounding the alarm is a national group of critics of standardized tests, FairTest, based in Cambridge.

9.   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.

10.   Although many accounts blamed disappointing standardized test scores for the divorce, Blodget attributed the parting to a different issue.