Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without scrapping the rotating schedules, there remain two ways to case the burden on instructors teaching the courses involved. First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work...
...hour exams have been failing as this yardstick, however. They are the bluebooks that the student finds with a single big letter grade serawled on their cover, and no other comment. No exam really helps the student to learn unless he knows what he did wrong; a grade and a line of cryptic figures written on the inside cover are not constructive criticism. Despite their tremendous pressure for time, graders should comment on exams--telling students what they have done wrong and how they can tackle their errors. Coupled with expanded office hours and discussion in sections,--History 61 holds...
...course when the Nieman Fellows talk about competition they're not worrying about marks. But just the same the students keep them on their toes. One fellow goes to the blackboard regularly in beginning French, and, of the 11 in Merk's course, six took the hour exam. The mean mark was B minus, and only one received...
...ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, I've always heard. That's why I wouldn't ordinarily have gone to the Hygiene Building when I woke up one morning shaking with fever. But I knew I was too sick to study for my hour exam the next day, so I thought I'd better...
Because the radio blared in the ward all day, because my exam was over, and because it was almost time for the weekend, I wanted to leave, and pretty soon they let me. I wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't had an exam and had stayed in bed to begin with...