1.   I remember one day he came home from an English essay test totally stressed out, even though he knew the subject well.

2.   It enables teachers to do away with blue books, those flimsy stapled booklets that are used for essay tests.

3.   Like Northeastern, Harvardawards credit for a basic writing course, offered to freshmen whose weaknesses become apparent on an essay test.

4.   Ms. Jimenez, a fifth-grade bilingual education teacher from Cuba, said the essay test was an insurmountable problem for many of the bilingual teachers.