Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line with the pattern of Indian society, students are characteristically more passive than agressive. They take notes verbatim or in outline form, then memorize them before the exam. Effective lecturing is made more difficult by some students' inability to understand spoken English, particularly a problem in the first year. This may also be a result of inadequacies in secondary education. In Madras State, for example, Tamilian regionalism complicates the problem, where Tamil replaces English as the medium of instruction in high schools...
...course material. If they do, students are likely to ignore the additional or novel material, since they are aware that they will not be tester in it. Except in the physical sciences, where 30% of the grade is determined by class work, the student's grade on the public exam in his grade for the course...
...designed to express student opinion to the Faculty about long range educational policy. Areas with which Ellis especially hopes the committee will deal include Harvard's exam system, the lecture-section system, and the general relationship between the college and the University...
Mindful of the strength of his opponents and the inevitable loss of conditioning during Harvard's long exam period, Pickett was cautious in his appraisal of the team's chances. "If we wrestle well, we can beat both of them," he said, "but we'll have to wrestle very well...
Members of the ad hoc committee also believe today's referendum is illegal. They cite a provision in the present constitution which says that proposed amendments must be posted in the houses for at least 10 days, excluding exam period, before the amendment is voted...