>>>My test would be the literacy of whatever they write.
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>My associate would agree- he says that's why it's not elitist to focus on degrees and grades. Most candidates have degrees, but since most employees need training, their degree is proxy confirmation that they can stick at something for more than 5 minutes, and presumably can string more than a few words together coherently. He looks at scores in the non math and science subjects as a sign of the quality of essay you can write.

That kind of shit came here in the eighties, too. Before that I didn't hear the "how is it possible that you have that degree and you don't know {current subject}". Then the degree combined with partial literacy became if not the norm then nothing to be amazed at.

Nowadays illiteracy is rampant in media here. They probably all fired their guys in charge of composing sentences, they were too expensive.