Word: exam
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...department's vote was in response to a complaint by Andrew Zachary '77. Zachary said yesterday he sent a letter to Brian D. Sykes, assistant professor of Chemistry, asking to see his graded exam in Chemistry 10. "Principles of Chemistry," on February...
Citing last year's federal law guaranteeing student access to educational records. Zachary wrote. "You may not destroy or remove my exam, and you have 45 days in which to comply with my request...
...called the "nursery school" architecture, and blink in awe at the number of faceless forms hunched over desks in the Science Library on Friday night, but everything is extraterrestially humming, scientific, in control. Especially it you're like me and never go in the Science complex except for an exam, there's nothing you can do about that huge pasted-together hangar ejecting doctors and engineers that you will never see and never know and only feel a bit uneasily might get you sometime later...
There were enough hints that something was wrong. Two students had argued in class about the exact wording of questions on a final exam-even before the exam was handed out. Another student had complained to his professor that he could not have made a mistake on some math problems on a test because an accounting major had worked out the answers for him in advance. But now the cheating scandal at the University of Florida is out in the open, and the campus is in a furor...
Marmish discovered that five student dealers, who each offered 16 to 18 different finals for as much as $200 apiece, were the center of the cheating network. Says Marmish: "We called them exam supermarketeers. If one didn't have what you wanted, he could refer you to someone in the ring who did." To get the tests, the dealers had rummaged through trash bins outside classroom buildings, looking for ditto copies; they also broke into locked rooms, and at least one bribed a janitor (with an ounce of marijuana...