Together, Alanis and Cruz helped reform the San Benito district, raising the district's Texas Assessment of Academic Skills scores 30 percent and changing a low-performing school to one that received a " recognized " rating in three years.
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Any time you attempt to accomplish anything, be it climb a wall, whack a monster or seduce the princess, you roll a d100 trying to get a result " lower than " ( or equal to ) your current skill score.
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In a 14-page paper titled " What do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us ? " four researchers at Rand, a private, nonprofit organization based in California, question the validity of much-touted gains in Texas Assessment of Academic Skills scores.
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According to the study, at 6 months of age, the infants who were placed to sleep in the prone position had statistically significant higher social skills scores, gross motor scores, and total development scores than those infants who were put to sleep in the supine position.
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Sallazar is the most likely to have low ability scores, and the book's magic system requires that combatants win an attack round for their spells to affect the enemy, which means that unless he has a sufficiently high SKILL score, the advantage of magic is all but worthless.