Word: exam
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...immediately aspire to either academic or public life. He wanted to run a railroad. "It is so easy...and fascinating to master the principles of these things," he told a friend, with his usual modesty. But no railway came along, and Keynes ended up taking the civil service exam. His lowest mark was in economics. "I evidently knew more about Economics than my examiners," he later explained...
...recent years, many students have prepared for the eight-hour exam by taking commercial review courses, which can add more than $1,000 to the costs of applying to medical school...
...particularly sore spot for Casillas was theUniversity's attitude toward students that need tostart their time abroad before the end ofHarvard's exam period...
...fear of random assignment into the section of an unfair TF who's grading practices are out of line with the rest of the class. Professors can do much to alleviate this problem, however, by circulating a set of standards and expectations to be evaluated in every paper in exam. Make sure the TFs follow the standards. Make sure the students know what is expected. Communication is the key, and it often will make life a whole lot easier for everyone...
...They didn't understand," Chaouli remembers, "that the second interpretation lives off the first. Literature doesn't drive to one point that you can write down and say on an exam...