考试结束后，看到题目，是我熟悉的试题。这个试题我曾经在前年的在职硕士强化班就讲过，今年又来了。
今年英译汉试题是95年全国硕士研究生统一考试的英语试题。一模一样啊。
今年在职硕士的作文题则和05年的全国硕士研究生统一考试的作文试题基本一致。
觉得我们考试的题库建设是需要加强了。不过这种现象也可以理解，同等学历在职硕士和全国硕士研究生统一考试本来就是一个级别的考试，所以，适当借鉴也是可取的。但是，适当修改一下似乎更为妥帖。
这是今年同等学历申请硕士学位英语统一考试的试题：
The standardized educational or psychological test that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention form the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user.
这是1995年全国统一硕士研究生入学试题，就是今年在职硕士试题了。
1995年考研翻译英译汉试题
The standardized educational or psychological tests that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, andmilitary personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in congress. (71) The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user.
All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance: school grades research productive, sales records, or whatever is appropriate. (72) How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps careful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error.
Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They provide a quick, objective method of getting some kids of information about what a person learned, the skills he has developed, or the kinds of person he is. The information so obtained has, qualitatively, the same advantages and shortcomings as other kinds of information. (73) Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience concerning comparative validity and upon such factors as cost and availability. | 
