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...academic year here begins in June and ends in April, and is divided into three terms of three months each. As a result, short vacation periods generally prevent Annamalai students from taking interim jobs, the few that are available, as their American counterparts do. Entering students are usually one year younger than the average Harvard freshman, having had only eleven years of precollege training...
...Annamalai student does not vary his curriculum as much as the Harvard man. He takes five subjects per year throughout the four years, always has five hours of class per day. He attends classes regularly because attendance is taken. In the pre-university course, English the language used in the university, and a second language (usually Indian) are required, as well as two courses in the student's field of concentration and one outside...
Course instruction at Annamalai is also quite standardized. All courses on the B.A. level are conducted in lectures. Instruction similar to Harvard's sections, tutorials or independent study are not used, though seminars have been introduced on the graduate level. Lectures frequently dictate from standard prepared notes, occossionally read from the course textbook...
...content and structure of all Annamalai courses are determined by departmental committees aided by outside specialists. The committees make their decisions in keeping with the expected public examination questions. Therefore, teachers do not usually expand or experiment with course material. If they do, students are likely to ignore the additional or novel material, since they are aware that they will not be tester in it. Except in the physical sciences, where 30% of the grade is determined by class work, the student's grade on the public exam in his grade for the course...
...average Annamalai student seems to study less than his Harvard counterpart. Five courses throughout the year may require a total of 3000 pages or reading notes are not usually part of the study pattern; a student may appear to read a textbook on atomic physics as if it were a novel. As at Harvard, daily homework is infrequent, except in the physical sciences and commercial courses and term papers are not assigned to B.A. students. Minor exercises that are occasionally-rejuired tend to rehash material from the lectures or reading, with less emphasis on creative thought...