Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attended RGA meeting yesterday, the rules committee presented its final proposal, which allows upperclassmen to sign out at any hour, including overnight. In addition, the plan liberalizes restrictions placed on first-term freshmen, extending the customary curfew until 11 p.m., and allowing more one o'clocks before the first exam period...
...days of reckoning are near. Exams for the Spring Term will be held as follows: Group Time Exam Date I MWF at 8 Th., May 24 II MWF at 9 Sat., June 2 III MWF at 10 Fri., May 25 IV MWF at 11 Tu., May 29 V MWF at 12 Th., May 31 VI MWF at 1 Frl., June 1 VII MWF at 2 Wed., May 23 VIII MWF at 3 Th., May 24 IX MWF at 4 Th., May 24 X TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs...
This "comprehensive" pattern of secondary school education, familiar in the U.S. and Britain, is unknown in Nigeria. Most students drop out of school after six years or less of primary schooling. Only a small group pass a stiff exam and reach secondary school. The successful few then separate into "classical," trade, or teacher-training schools...
...give an exam in Latin," Whitla stated, "its purpose is to measure achievement in the subject for placement purposes. Irrelevant factors should play no role in its predictive value...
...attempt "to undercut some of the anxiety over the exam," Lee said that "at least one of the questions on the test will be given in advance." He added that the paper and the exam would be weighted about equally in the students' final grades...