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...final exam for the fall term's most popular class, Economics A, is rescheduled for an unprecedented 7:15 p.m. time slot due to high enrollment and space limitations. Many students are angered...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Back to School: 1946-'47 in Review | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...took the dreaded English A anticipatory Exam and I flunked it, a dubious start for a would-be writer. But it was a well-disguised blessing, and the strict standards of my English A section man (his face remains, his name is gone) imposed a discipline on my thought as well as my prose that I realized was overdue...

Author: By Charles Champlin, | Title: REMEMBERING 1947: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...short story class and Carvel Collins, who gave a wonderful composition course and who steered my to my encounter with Life magazine and thus set my whole professional life in motion, I could hope to make my way as a writer, despite my dismal performance on the Anticipatory Exam...

Author: By Charles Champlin, | Title: REMEMBERING 1947: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...three hours of a final exam test very specific pieces of information and many times leave out important concepts. So a final exam also is a skewed test since it cannot incorporate the entire class...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Inadequate Examinations | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...final exam is automatically skewed, then it is simply not a good final indicator for a class. The final exam should be weighted less than 50 percent; it is not a good enough indicator to determine so much of a final grade. The other parts of the class, papers and midterms, should then count for a larger percentage of a grade. At least in this system, grading is spread over several days...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Inadequate Examinations | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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