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Harvard students swept the 12-question exam last December, taking four of the six "Fellows" awards, which carry a $2,500 scholarship for high individual scores, and capturing a total of fourteen out of the top 58 individual scores...
...exam began in 1938 when the Mathematical Association of America took over the responsibility for carrying out what was the brainchild of William Lowell Putnam, Harvard class of 1882. This year, 2,510 students from 419 colleges and universities devoted a Saturday to the six-hour exam, on which fewpeople score any points...
According to Taubes, about sixty Harvardstudents took the exam this year, but, saidDevelin, anyone who is interested in math shouldattempt the Putnam...
...opposed to the Olympiad, the Putnam [exam]doesn't put any pressure on anybody," Oprea said
...addition to shrinking class sizes in grades one through three to a maximum of 20 students, the act would also require teachers to pass a competency exam and submit a portfolio for the lessons they plan to teach...