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Students with a 700 on the SAT verbal or a 4 or 5 on the English advanced placement exam currently qualify for middle-level expos couses. Evans said that if any students do receive exemption, they would be in this group, which this year numbers about 530 persons...
...protesting students committed themselves to the plan at a meeting to draw numbers on Tuesday. The representative said yesterday that 151 of 162 first-year students signed that day, and at least 140 of them followed through at the exam...
Over 85 per cent of the first-year Medical School class will refuse to sign their blue-books at an exam tomorrow morning in an attempt to force the implementation of pass-fail grading, a member of the class said yesterday...
...Thomas H. Wilson, professor of Physiology, is administering the exam at which the protest is planned. "I don't think it's a surprise that students don't like grades," he said yesterday. "But I really can't anticipate what is going to happen. One thing they might do is just talk with the faculty...
However, the results of an exam last month showed a 14-per-cent marginal rate and a 6-per-cent incidence of failure. The curve for the test made all grades from 85 to 93 passing...