Reading knowledge testing

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This report covers one service of Linguistics to the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies. Since July 1968 the SGS has routinely tested the French and the German reading abilities called for in each of the PhD supervising departments from Aerospace through Zoology, relieving the language departments of onerous burdens. Each department has chosen its own pass/fail standard; choices are alterable, especially downward without notice, four times a year; departments find raising them more troublesome but do it by internal political process as often as they see fit, actually as often as twice in three years.