11.   If adopted, the new exam could be introduced as early as April, said NASD Regulation vice president Frank McAuliffe.

12.   People who have taken the new exam say it is not easy.

13.   TAAS will be replaced within a few years with new standardized exams covering more subjects, and there may be a rough inaugural period.

14.   Swerdlow and other teachers said the lenient scoring on the new exams would allow teachers and students alike to be less diligent.

15.   The new MCAS exam also threatens to erode educational opportunities for minority students, who so far have flunked it in droves.

16.   The new exam is twice as long as any previous English regents test, and it is meant to be more comprehensive.

17.   A new MRI exam was done Tuesday, which showed the stress reaction.

18.   A new exam format is momentous because the Ministry has conceded to the hindrances in producing creative- and critically-thinking workers for the Information Age.

19.   But graduates who had been promised jobs several years ago are being required to take the new exam.

20.   The new exam can spot a structural defect that often precedes complete failure of the valve.