Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent removal of the hour exam requirement has revealed more clearly a sadly neglected part of the educational value of finals. This value is derived through handing the bluebook back to the student with comments to indicate faults that may be avoided in the future. It has been common practice to return hour exams so that the student can take whatever complaints he may have to the grader for discussion. No such provision has been maintained on January and May finals, however. If sufficiently interested, the student can enclose a posteard on which his grade is returned...
There has been considerable complaint from instructors on the poor quality of writing in exams. Little effort is made on their part to improve that standard, however. A few course heads have taken the trouble to permit the Student to see his exam before the grade has been recorded with the Registrar. But more have discouraged the student from doing so. In theory, the recording of grades before hearing complaints avoids a lot of trouble for the instructor, since the red tape involved in any change thereafter is virtually prohibitive. In practice, more careful grading and commenting on papers would...
Although there are few students who will wait for a week after their last exam in June for its return, there could be an improvement next year in the case of the February exams. The number of readers should be increased so that more attention can be paid to each paper and so that the process can be speeded up. The paper could thus be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is handed in. No increase in cost would he involved, since most departments pay their readers per paper. The instructive value...
Just who will be on the mound today when the Varsity baseball team meets B.C. at 3 o'clock is disconcertingly vague this morning. Ira Godin came down with the hives yesterday and Red Connelly came up with a sore finger and an exam in the afternoon, so Coach Dolph Samborski was still pretty much in the dark last night...
...Moroccan expedition found not only exam, but traces of man dating back to that time, when the sea was nearly 60 feet higher than it is at present...