Word: exam
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...need is particularly evident du-ring exam-time. Over reading Period and during tests, first-years stay up late studying just like upperclass students. Each night, around 1 a.m., the effects of the satisfying Union meals with which they stuff themselves begin to wear...
...sort of view it as our section, not mysection," Bear added. "I can pretty much guaranteethat if they understand what happens in section,they can...understand everything in the course andevery problem they encounter on an exam...
...unreasonable to assume that a student given access to a textbook during a test on the Shavante Indians would proceed to read about their rites of passage for the first time during the hour allotted to him to take the exam. The student would still need to have a working knowledge of the topic, in addition to knowing where to find useful details. Coupled with finely-tuned analytical skills, these are the only tools that a great anthropologist would need...
...What we try to do is to simulate a real world environment as closely as you could in an exam." says Seltzer. She went on to explain that programmers wouldn't be asked to come up with algorithms in the real world without algorithms in the real world without the use of textbooks or similar resources, so it would not make sense to force students to do so on a test. The open-book policy will be continued in CS50 next year...
...Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and was once on the staff of J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a quick study, and when he does focus -- as when preparing to meet foreign leaders, for which he crams like a student facing a tough exam -- can be quite impressive. But he rarely does focus that way. He gets a 15-minute intelligence briefing about 8:45 a.m. and confers on international problems with National Security Adviser Tony Lake and Vice President Al Gore a bit later. By 9 or 9:30 a.m. he has spent...