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Beginning in November, the Law School will join 86 others in giving a new kind of admissions exam. Supplementing the current Aptitude test, required of all applications, the new one will include examinations in both writing ability and general background...
Announcement of the exam came yesterday at the Conference of Western Law Schools, attended by Louis A. Toepfer, Director of Admissions in the Harvard Law School...
They see attentiveness being killed by the dull or incomprehensible textbook, and by the lock-step teaching that bores the bright and overtaxes the dull. The principle of "praise and rewards" is diluted by everything from the sarcastic teacher to the delayed exam grade; teachers have in fact commonly used the threat of failure to induce learning...
...boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term's math homework in four hours and 20 minutes. In Roanoke, Va., last year, 34 eighth-graders finished a one-year algebra course in six months, working 50 minutes a day without homework; 41% of them tested at ninth-grade level or better...
...question of oral vs. written exams the instructors were not in complete unanimity. The staff decided however, to give a two-hour exam in the reading period with general questions composed by all the tutors. Each tutor may them choose certain questions or reword them to make them conform to the aims of his particular tutorial...