Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronic insomniac, just a sometimes insomniac," Joe claims, but if you had witnessed his marathon bout with sleepless nights, you might begin to wonder just where he draws the distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile...
Their graduates, however, are not cashing in. Sixty percent flunk the California bar exam, one of the toughest in the nation, and Gorfinkle reports that barely a fourth of those who enter the uncertified law schools ever graduate. Since 1968, for example, only seven students from Los Angeles' Van Norman have passed the bar exam. Moreover, since California requires students at unaccredited law schools to study for four years instead of the usual three and to take a "baby bar" exam after their first year, many never even get the chance to flunk the big test. One reason...
...offers a kind of legal education hard to find elsewhere. San Francisco's pioneering New College, which will graduate its first class next year, attracts applicants because of its apprenticeship program in public-interest law. Last year 60% of its first-year students passed the baby bar exam. Getting a job, however, is another matter. In 1975 there were 34,000 law school graduates round the country looking for work-and only 26,000 jobs...
...ching Winnie Li, lecturer on Mathematics, who now teaches Math 1, said yesterday that students who fell behind in the fall semester of last year's course did very badly on the final exam--"you cannot learn math in one night...
Last year, students in both courses supposedly attended sections only to have their questions answered, and to take unit tests when they felt they were ready. A final exam determined the main part of their grade...