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The Academic Challenge
is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide
Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students
in Illinois and Missouri. The tests are now offered by more than
50 community colleges and universities and are designed to present
a challenge to the brightest students.
Test material is drawn from
senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Written
by teams of college and university faculty,
subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering
graphics, English, mathematics, and physics. Each test production
team produces three tests of increasing levels of difficulty,
regional, sectional and state finals. Students compete as individuals
and as
part of a team (when their school fields a team); they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice
tests that range in length from 30 questions (computer science)
to 100 questions (English).
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