Word: exam
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...Jazz somehow succeeds at embodying the philosophy of the Core while the old one does not. This is clearly not the case. To claim that there is a significant distinction between two courses which are virtually identical--in texts, listenings, professor, requirements, meeting time, course catalog number and exam group--is at best a poorly executed decision. At worst, it is a penalization of the students who demonstrated a true interest in jazz by taking the course before it became just another magnet for students filling requirements...
...student before dropping out of high school after his junior year, Scott spent long hours preparing for the statewide police exam. He was sick with chicken pox when he took the test. A few weeks after the exam, he received a letter on official letterhead from deputy superintendent Zalas telling him that he had failed. "I was heartbroken," said Scott. The next day he went to Zalas and asked if he could take the exam again. When Zalas asked why, Scott handed him the letter. Zalas said he never wrote the letter. "Someone was just clowning around with him," says...
Chairman of the Math Department Arthur M. Jaffe says that Gleason also gets undergraduates interested in math by promoting their participation in the Putnam Math Competition, a national math exam taken by the brightest young math scholars in the U.S. Gleason won the contest three consecutive times as an undergraduate...
...This sort of thing hasn't happened for about two years," she said. "It used to come up quite often, especially around exam time, when the students get rather punchy...
...Rice says his adviser told him the general exam was "not something to be concerned about at this point...