Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dreaded "Eleven Plus." The 1944 act confronts children emerging from six years in state primary schools (at ages 10½ to 11½) with the dreaded "eleven-plus exam''-typically an IQ test, an arithmetic test, an English composition...
Accordingly, the government is now also using a far milder de-oathing rite. In fact, it often is more like a civil;,service exam than something out of The'-Golden Bough. Along with a Kikuyu district officer, the de-oathing teams comprise several recorders, who write down confessions, and a court of five tribal elders. Those who come forward to renounce the L.F.A. are asked eleven questions ("When did you take the oath?" "Who are the leaders?"), then are fined an average of 5 or 10 shillings by the elders...
Capes are gaining popularity in Cambridge as well as on the international fashion circuit. Kitty endorses this trend with her short, lined cape in suede for $35. Just the thing to rid yourself of those hour exam blues in the suede Garbo slouch...
...History Department, junior tutorial (History and Literature 98) deepens the student's knowledge of his special area and fills in gaps in his course program. In May of their junior year, History and Literature concentrators take a general examination on their special fields. If they pass this exam they are admitted into senior tutorial (History and Literature 99) which is devoted to the preparation of a thesis...
Regardless of how skillfully exam questions have been devised, no one learns anything when he is bored. Examinations would surely teach more if the questions on them were more interesting. The examinations poll asked for the best single question the student had ever been given on a three-hour exam. Two came up repeatedly: a chemistry question asking the student to make up an extra-credit problem which only ten per cent of the class would be able to answer, and an English question asking the student to characterize himself in the style of different authors studied during the term...