In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.

Q: Standardized tests are designed so that everything about them are standard .

A: Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions , conditions for administering , scoring procedures , and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined , standard manner .
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Q: Both intelligent patrons of literature and art , Anna Amalia and Charles Augustus attracted to their court the leading scholars in Germany , including Goethe , Schiller and Herder , and made Weimar an important cultural centre .

A: Both intelligent patrons of literature and art , Anna Amalia and Charles Augustus attracted to their court the leading German scholars , including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller and Johann Gottfried Herder , and made their residence Weimar an important cultural center in an era referred to as Weimar Classicism .
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Q: Compared to other stick insects ( order Phasmatodea ) , the genus " Timema " is basal .

A:
Compared to other stick insects ( order Phasmatodea ) , the genus " Timema " is considered basal ; that is , the earliest " branch " to diverge from the phylogenetic tree that includes all Phasmatodea .
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