Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chronic user, however, is not the one who suffers during exam period, the physician noted. He said that pep pills act differently on each individual, and that the pill which keeps one student alert may make another go blank completely during an exam. He added that this makes the drugs especially dangerous to the student who has never taken them and decides to give them a "one-shot trial...
...doctor suggested that if a student feels he must take dexedrine or benzedrine he should test his reaction to the drug beforehand. He cited an example of a student who came to him "almost irrational" from a pill taken to keep him alert during a final exam...
...again countless pages of material and countless hours of work culminate in three hours of combat with a blue book. And, once again, our insights, errors and intricacies of thought are rewarded with the praise or condemnation of mute symbols. In numerous courses at Harvard students never get their exams back, much less receive intelligent criticism of them. The exam has become what most profess it should not be, a race for a grade in which students hurriedly put down what they know and rarely find out what they...
...exam is nothing less than a course paper and should be treated as such. At the very least, blue books should be given back to students rather than stowed away. More important, graders should annotate the essays. And, more utopian, hours for conferences between graders and students should be arranged. Presently, of these requisites for exam grading only the first occurs at all and even then only with irregularity...
...finished my exam," he continued, "and I thought I'd drop you a line." At the end of the exam, the wily undergraduate handed in the letter, pocketed an empty bluebook, and raced back to his room. He then, looked up the answers, wrote them in the bluebook, and mailed it home...