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Talusan and other honors English concentrators who recently took the general exam said they believe the exam does not reflect the department's purported approach to literary study...
...felt that generals were rather arbitrary," said Emily J. Wood '97, one of the petition drive organizers. "[The exam] seems to assume a fixed canon of text we should know when the department all along has been telling us [otherwise...
During the exam, Talusan said he wrote a long essay about the exam's flaws instead of answering the assigned questions...
Wood added that most of the texts that the exam asked students to recall are studied in English 10a, "Major British Writers I," and English 10b, "Major British Writers II"--introductory courses which most concentrators take their first year...
...petition calls for the department to tailor the general exam to address issues covered in a student's thesis and course work...