Word: exam
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Perhaps it was when my roommate. Expos teacher lauded the sentence "My crisp memories drowned in a sea of nebulous platitudes" as an example of fine writing. Perhaps it was when a friend quoted his roommate in an economics exam as "the esteemed Finnish Communist" and his teaching fellow rewarded him with a check and an "excellent reference" comment...
...That spring] shook me loose from an academic track," says Norr. In order to avoid the war, he went to his medical exam with peace symbols painted on his underwear and antiwar slogans on his feet. After getting sent to a psychiatrist. Norr was deemed mentally unfit and received a medical deferment...
Masako evidently agreed. In 1986 she entered the law department of the University of Tokyo to study for the Foreign Ministry entrance exam. The stocky teenager was becoming sleek and turning heads in a division that is only about 5% female. She passed the stiff exam after just one year -- most people require two years of study, and only 5.3% succeeded in 1986, Owada's year. Even now, Tokyo professionals can be heard to say, "She did what a man can't do," and then hurriedly correct themselves...
When So finally addresses the issue of SAT test bias, he concludes, "The solution is not to edit out exam material that most minority students are unfamiliar with, the solution is to familiarize them." So misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators...
...stands now, the exam tests how well the students can memorize the answers which they may or may not have written themselves. If professors want a test of photographic memory, why not organize a giant graded game of "Concentration...