It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

In two thousand six, the United States had lower scores in mathematics than twenty-three of the other twenty-nine OECD countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

They say that some states have lowered their standards in order to increase student scores on tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

But TOEIC scores are not used for college admission in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

"In my book I call this the empathy bell curve. And part of what I'm exploring in the book is what determines where an individual scores on this empathy bell curve.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

Mourners at the main government building in Bishkek pay homage to scores of protesters who died storming the building last week.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Firefighters have so far protected most of the homes in the suburbs near Los Angeles, but scores have been lost.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

For more than eight years, U.S.drone aircraft have fired missiles at scores of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan's volatile tribal region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

After the political agreement was signed scores of MDC supporters and rights activists were kidnapped and held in secret locations for weeks and months.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"His ideas and ideals and are stamped on scores of laws reflected in millions of lives,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

And that's part of the reason why South Korea scores badly in the index."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Police adopted similar tactics early Sunday in Lahore, surrounding the home of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and deploying scores of officers in riot gear throughout the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Indonesia has arrested and convicted scores of people involved in terrorism since 2002.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Demand drew scores of people to vaccination clinics in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Scores of Palestinian youths pelted Israeli forces with rocks in protest.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Although most patients suffer only a mild illness, scores of people are being treated in hospitals and more than 45 people have died because of complications related to the flu.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

Last year at this time, governments around the world intensified efforts to contain a deadly flu virus that killed scores of people in Mexico and quickly spread around the world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"Because of that negative stereotype, girls are more likely to believe that they are less able in math compared to boys who have similar grades and tests scores in math."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Since the 2002 bombings on Bali, in which more than 200 people died, the Indonesian government has arrested and tried scores of suspected terrorists, most of them affiliated with Jemaah Islamiyah.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

In the last month couple of months, more than two dozen Turkish soldiers have been killed and scores injured in a major escalation in PKK attacks across the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17