Word: exam
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...been in the back of my mind this year," Talusan said. "But when I saw how biased and obsolete the [general] exam is, I decided to send out e-mail to see if there were other undergrads who were interested...
More than 100 dissatisfied English concentrators have signed a petition calling for better communication channels for its undergraduates and reforms in the department's general exam and thesis evaluation process...
However, WHRB does have several unique features. For example, during Reading and Exam Periods, WHRB maintains "orgies," during which, according to Twiss, the "listenership peaks...
...result of the crowding phenomenon is a dedication of Reading Period to paperwork and Exam Period to reading. This chronology defeats the purpose of the academic structure, in which Reading Period is a time to review and synthesize a semester's work, and Exam Period is for more directed study. Reading Period, then, is neither restful (as it was originally intended to be so that graduate students and professors had time to complete their own work) nor productive (as it might be constructed with a new focus on the importance of undergraduate learning...
...would be very much in the Harvard tradition. A first step in that direction would be the removal of paperwork from the two weeks of Reading Period. The University Registrar, Thurston Smith, can aid students in this regard by moving the deadline (perhaps for next semester) for non-proctored exams to either the start of Reading Period or the end of Exam Period...