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Students also asked Kagan to explain the logic behind the “one-exam-grading system,” which dictates that grades for each class are usually based on a single exam at the end of the semester...
...exam, the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), requires both critical thinking and a substantial knowledge of science. It is also a test of endurance, and probably the longest exam any Harvard undergraduate has even taken...
...course there was still academic life to attend to. Morris got back from California two days before his first exam this winter, took his tests and then headed straight for the airport, where he flew to Honolulu during intercession to compete in the Hula Bowl, another all-star game...
Basketball certainly seems peripherally related, if at all, to math. However, the first question on the second half of this year’s exam dealt with basketball and made a sly reference to the free throw percentage of a certain L.A. Lakers center. Test-takers had to calculate the probability of “Shanille O’Keal” making 50 out of 100 given specific circumstances. “A bunch of people laughed when we started that part of the test,” says Gabriel D. Carroll ’05, three-time Putnam...
...next four years like I had the last four. I decided that it was time, first, to stop working to the point of fatigue and, more importantly, to stop taking myself-—and every detail of life—so seriously. Instead of sweating through papers and exam periods, Crimson duties and interpersonal interactions, I pledged from deep within my soul to let laughter prevail even if the heavens should fall. I’m not talking about complacency; I’m talking about enjoying life...