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Sick-Out: What to do when you are totally unprepared for an exam...
...partly expatriate, the student body of 100 wholly international. My friends were there for many reasons (to redeem their high school performances, to kill time until the Fall.) It was there because I didn't want to deal with the GCE A Levels, which was the necessary pre-college exam for applicants form British-based education systems...
...week, first years will have to spend themorning acing or bombing the notoriousQuantitative Reasoning Requirement Data Test.Students arrive to their assigned testinglocation, QRR Study Guides in hand, and get readyto embark on the long journey to "20," which isthe minimum score for passing the exam. Byachieving this feat, first-years avoid the nasty"QRA" course and are liberated from bell curvesand pie charts forever--unless they're intostatistics or are regular readers of USA Today...
...least four graduate students (out of approximately 25) say they may leave the department early, saying they are wasting some $30,000 on a "disgusting" education and that they have not even been told how to prepare for an essay and oral exam, or whether their dissertation prospectus models should be 10 or 30 pages long...
Further, although masters and doctoral candidates are currently required to take an exam in translation of a passage from the Mahabharata, the students say there is no accredited course in the subject because, according to the minutes, the only pertinent class was designated by the Department's former chair as a "hobby" and unaccreditable...