Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Computer Gets It Wrong in Medical Admission Test

By KAREN W. ARENSON


When Daniel Sonshine, a senior at Brown University, took the Medical College Admission Test on Saturday, he was asked to read a passage on robotic fish in the verbal reasoning part of the exam. Then he was presented with a series of questions about songbirds.

This was not a trick question; it was an error.

“I was completely distraught,” Mr. Sonshine said yesterday. “I was struggling to stay focused, but I was not focusing.”

He was probably not alone. About 800 students who took the exam, known as the MCAT, encountered the mistake.

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