Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment a French baby opens his little Gallic eyes, his ruling purpose in life becomes preparing for the bachot, the grueling baccalaureate exam that decides who shall enter universities and the grandes ecoles, and thus automatically become the elite that will some day rule the nation. The exam was over last week, and in Paris and Marseille milling, delirious teenage students overturned cars, pelted passers-by with flour, bombarded police with eggs, set bonfires on the sidewalks. They were celebrating the end of the pretest tension-and a lot of them were celebrating the fact that this year...
Students of Venezuela's state-supported universities won flunking privileges in the euphoric period following the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez. The government guaranteed admission without an entrance exam to any high school graduate, and wiped out all penalties for failure except a nominal fee for repeating a course. The result was chaos. While academic standards tumbled, the university became a base for communists and subversives. They were rarely seen in class, and their ages ran well into the 30s. All during turbulent 1963, Castroite F.A.L.N. terrorists took refuge on the campus-which...
Virtually all the scholars scored in the mid 700s on the college boards and no less than 15 had perfect 800s. Half a dozen had perfect National Merit exam scores, impossible...
...calendar called it spring; the catalogue said exam period; but everyone knew that it was really just another damn hot Cambridge...
...short, The Best Man is the best bet for exam period escape...