Word: exam
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There are several inaccuracies in your discussion of the Junior Qualifying Exam given last spring. To begin with, "the bottom quarter" of the Junior Class did not fail this examination. Sixty-seven took the exam. Of these, fourteen received a grade of "distinction," 26 a grade of "pass," 15 a grade of "marginal pass" and 12 a grade of "fail." The term "fail," of course, means in this context "below B" since the purpose of the examination is to determine a man's qualifications for honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed...
Hope Mourousas '58 and Janet C. Ross '58, co-editors of the News, explained that in a Radcliffe exam the supervisor merely administers the test and "often leaves the room, reads, or is otherwise engaged during the course of the final...
Miss Mourousas and Miss Ross suggested that a re-evaluation of the Harvard exam system might be in order...
...understand," the editors wrote, "that eventually and through a slow, sure procedure Radcliffe is abandoning its honor system with regard to exam-taking? Is it to be given up without a struggle? We say 'No.' It must not be lost so effortlessly...
Sorry for giving what they admitted was a "loaded" exam and seeing that many concentrators with honor grades could no longer go out for honors and write theses, the tutors pulled a complete about face. They promised to recommend each concentrator, who failed, for a senior-year course reduction, in which he or she could write a protothesis--a thesis-length term paper. This move did not greatly ease the tutor shortage...