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In the 1964-65 academic year, the College Entrance Examination Board introduced two new levels of mathematics Achievement Tests in its Admissions Testing Program (ATP): Mathematics Level I and Mathematics Level II. They replaced the intermediate and advanced mathematics examinations in response to factors affecting mathematics education from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.

The recently released 1973 Calculus AB and BC examinations offer some challenging problems for your students.

The participation by secondary school and college teachers of computer science in the development of an Advanced Placement computer science course description and examination is a good example of the interaction between the world of the College Board and the world of mathematics. A long series of such interactions has occurred since the College Board was founded at the turn of the century; a look back at how the board was created and how it has evolved can help to explain the relationship between board activities and mathematics education today.

AT THE request of the College Board Committee of Examiners for the Mathematics Achievement Tests (Level I and Level II), members of the Mathematics Department at Educational Testing Service, including the authors, carried out a small-scale study in an attempt to determine whether certain kinds of information that could not be obtained from regular statistical analysis could be obtained by interviewing students.