<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KaiKai @ Apr 3 2007, 06:30 PM) [snapback]42529[/snapback]</div>
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literary test?
never heard of it
wanna explain more? hehehe~[/b]
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A literacy test, in a strict sense, is a test designed to determine one's ability to read and write a given language. The term is often used, however, to refer to a test given to determine one's eligibility to vote. Literacy tests have also been used as a means to restrict immigration. The United States adopted a policy of administering a literacy test upon arrival in 1917 in order to filter out unskilled labor. The test was first proposed to Congress in 1897 and was declined four times before ratification. The high demand for cheap, unskilled, immigrant labor made the bill very difficult to pass in its early stages. But by 1917, the United States' views on immigration had changed and the literacy tests merely prefaced the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924.
It requires for all High School students that are enrolled in grade 9 to 10... If u failed, u have to do it again till your grade 12 or grade 13..
Credit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test