Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loker fever," said Adam R. Kovacevich '99, who was studying for Wednesday's Ec 10 hourly exam in one of the many nooks lining the Commons' south wall. "I'm really impressed with the job they did down here...
...rest of December, the commons will be open from 8 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. During reading and exam period, Loker Commons will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. every...
...First of all, we had just taken a midterm that Tuesday," said Daniel J. Epstein '99, who had not done the reading because he was "exhausted" after the exam. "And she had already assigned an 80-page reading [for Thursday...
While 100 students operating under unfair conditions amount to but a tiny fraction of the 1.8 million who take the exam each year, there is a broader concern here about the only truly national college-entrance test. Indeed within the national pre-college community there is an almost reverential attitude towards the SAT. It goes unquestioned that colleges want you to have scholastic aptitude--whatever that is--and the SAT tells you how much of it you have. But is that the end of the story...
...universities weigh scores heavily in their admission processes. It is used to narrow the field for designating Presidential Scholars, and (in the PSAT form) to hand out thousands of National Merit Scholarships. If the noble souls who write this test can't even figure out that giving an identical exam to the same people twice is unacceptable, should they be entrusted by students and learning institutions with such extraordinary power...