{"id":1624,"date":"2011-10-09T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2021-10-31T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:32:14","slug":"re-toefl-score-minimums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/09\/re-toefl-score-minimums\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: TOEFL score minimums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>thanks a lot for bringing up the topic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from my observation, the section minimums are more problematic. students<br>may have passed the overall minimum, but having one section one or two<br>points short of the section minimum, and according to the current rule,<br>they do not meet the requirement. even if they retake the exam, passing<br>the overall minimum again but unfortunately missing one or two points in<br>another section, they do not meet the requirement too. this memoryless<br>process can continue and repeat with so many *concurrent* minimums. such<br>things did happen and encourage students to go somewhere else<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if the overall minimum is lowered from 90 to 86, at least the section<br>minimum can be reduced from 20 to 19&#8212;or even lower or eliminated to be<br>comparable to, and competitive with, other comparable institutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thanks a lot for bringing up the topic from my observation, the section minimums are more problematic. studentsmay have passed the overall minimum, but having one section one or twopoints short of the section minimum, and according to the current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/09\/re-toefl-score-minimums\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}