1.   Allyson Felix had no competitive running experience when her coaches put newcomers through a skill test the first day of practice.

2.   And Bush proposed that students who fail after three tries to pass the standardized skills test for their grade level not be promoted.

3.   Applicants generally undergo skills tests and interviews with the best qualified being hired.

4.   Across the nation, school districts are trying to replace minimum skills tests with more demanding ones.

5.   Breakout will include streetball and rollerball tournaments, as well as several skills tests.

6.   Hospital tests showed no serious injury but doctors refused to clear him to race after he failed a motor skills test.

7.   It was the day the statewide minimum skills test was to be administered to ninth-graders.

8.   Ninety percent of her pupils, many of them in bilingual education, now pass the skills test.

9.   Oregon is among those states trying to find a different way to size up teaching applicants beyond the basic skills test that it gives.

10.   Some of you may find it strange that individuals who cannot pass a basic skills test would go into teaching in the first place.