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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, April 22, 1990                   TAG: 9004220099
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

REVISED CIVIL SERVICE TESTS COMING IN JUNE

Eight years after the civil service qualifying examination was thrown out because it discriminated against minorities, the government has devised new competitive entrance tests that will be given across the country in June.

Since the old qualifying exams were thrown out, hiring for entry-level professional and administrative jobs has been done in an stopgap manner or on the basis of narrow, specialized tests aimed at specific jobs.

Only 5 percent of black applicants passed the old Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE), which was thrown out in 1982. Only .07 percent of them received a high enough score to be considered for hiring.

- The Washington Post 


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