Word: exam
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...practice may have begun at a private school in Washington on Jan. 18, when a group of tenth-graders did poorly on a math test. When the results came back, the class asked the teacher for a makeup exam, explaining how unfair it was to quiz them on the morning after the first missile attack of the war. They had lost too much sleep watching CNN the night before...
...Honors hourlies were put in place so that students would not need to take a previous [final] exam that tested the same material as a general exam," Wolcowitz said. "It cleared the desk for students so that they could devote time for theses and prepare for their general examinations...
Carlos R. Perez '91, a government concentrator, said he agrees with Elmendorf. "I think people should still be given the option," Perez said. "It definitely lightens the workload. I think most people welcome the possibility of having an earlier exam in a course even if it is shorter...
Although Elmendorf said he has not sensed any inequity in offering honors hourlies, he pointed out the difficulty of designing an hour-long exam that adequately covers a full semester of coursework...
...While we have not had any complaints regarding inequities between students, we do find it hard to write a one hour exam that covers the full course of material," Elmendorf said