Word: exam
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EXAMINATIONS: Only one exam was given each term--a final, but this year, '56 will also have to cope with an hour exam both terms. The exams were considered fair, marked slightly on the hard side; the bulk of the grades, as in the case with most Gen Ed courses, were...
Both examination periods will be two days shorter than previously. Last years fall reading period of two weeks has been cut to twelve days this year, and the 15 day spring exam period is now 13 days...
...nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...
...most students were of the wealthy and professional classes. In stuffy, stagnant classrooms, teachers have paid little attention to the individual student, treating them all as so many minds to be crammed for the dreaded "bachot." And each year, as many as 60% of their pupils have flunked the exam...
...exam week, and U.C.L.A. students were concerned with such practical problems as marks and last-minute cramming. But a group of them found time to attend an extracurricular lecture at the religious-conference building. There the Rev. James H. Robinson, a Presbyterian minister, told them about his recent visit to India (TIME, April 28). As a Negro, he had been able to visit places that white Americans seldom see, and he was convinced that the best way to solve India's misunderstandings about the U.S. was through personal meetings and discussion...