Word: exam
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...supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member student union (E.F.E.E.), exams are being held only twice a year, and failure means repeating the academic year...
...said the University's new make-up examination policy--requiring as asterisk to appear on the student's transcript beside each grade that is based on a make-up exam--may have "dampened students' enthusiasm" for using the make-up exam option...
...added that an exact comparison is impossible because other universities grant credit on a one-for-one basis, while Harvard offers a sophomore standing package deal. Columbia University, for example, will grant a student one credit for each Advanced Placement exam he passes with a score of four or above...
Supporting Davis's proposal, Barbara Solomon, senior lecturer in History and Literature and a council member, said yesterday she "was never convinced" that passing an Advanced Placement exam in the humanities or social sciences could substitute for a corresponding Harvard course, regardless of the score earned...
Skocpol added students who accepted advanced standing in Physics with a score of 3 on their Physics Advanced Placement exam had a "shabby" knowledge of the basic material...