Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long when a softball hit him squarely in the back. He coughed twice, muttered, "Kirkland House slobs," between his teeth, and cheerfully threw back the ball. One of the fellows, whom he had met in Cronin's a few days before, asked him to join them. "No. Big hour exam in political polity," said Vag. They started throwing the ball around, often narrowly missing Vag, who had lost track completely. He put down the book and lay back on the grass, thinking. Was it just possible that political polity could not explain absolutely everything, for example Spring, or the girl...
...their windows. Vag got up slowly, realizing that the grass was damper than he had thought. He fingered his book, overcame an impulse to hurl it into the Charles, and started back across the Drive. You could throw a lot of bull, no doubt, in a political polity hour exam, and after that there would be the vacation and a couple more moths of Spring...
...should be up to the instructor in charge. This thesis, heralded at the time of its first announcement by the Council, allows instructors to fit short examinations, papers, and section quizzes into their own framework of the course. Among other things, the Hanford policy removed the curse of Hour Exam Week from the lives of the students, allowing faculty members to spread work over the term instead of assigning most of it before a specific "seven-weeks-grade" date...
...only thorough-going solution seems to be the general examination, but here again we have the cramming, frantic last minute marshalling of seattered, half-forgotten facts, and a few hours of furious exam writing. The oral exam would seem to obviate this, but, having given a man sixteen courses in four years, it is a little hard to admit that you haven't really taught him very much, and, consequently, the oral examiners have to set their sights fairly low if they don't intend to flunk out a large number of students...
...common answer to this is that those who do not take shortcuts are forced in preparing for an exam to have mastered most of the material in a course in order to pass, and that therefore the tutoring school should be made illegal, thus forcing everyone to do a modicum of normal studying...