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...such a system could work is that professors would give their final exams in sealed envelopes to the registrar, who would temporarily annex Alumni Hall in Memorial Hall for the handing out and receiving of exams. Students could come in on any week day at any business hour to check out the exam, and then return it a specified amount of time later before...
THERE ARE a number of benefits from self-scheduled exams. First, they would eliminate the arbitrariness and unfairness of the present system. Exam times aren't holy; they are decided by when the registrar can cram what where. The result is that some students get screwed over with multiple exams on the same or consecutive days, or have useless gaps before exams for which they don't need to study. What's even worse is when--like me--you have a four-day intersession while your roommate runs off to Puerto Rico for two weeks of sun. Having students decide...
Teaching fellows might be concerned that grading would be a nightmare with all exams coming in on the last possible day. But, reasonably, we should expect exam returns to be more spaced out than before. And there's nothing wrong with scoring a few exams each day (or piling them up if one so chooses) as long as the curve isn't set until all of them...
STUDENTS with questions about an exam would be out of luck, but they generally are anyway. The average proctor is unable to help and tends to regard any question as an unfair attempt to extract information...
...only real problem with self-scheduled exams is the mess it would create for the registrar. But if we turned our present exam proctors into assistants for the registrar, the office could easily handle the sudden upsurge in work. In fact, net bureaucratic administration might even be reduced, as a proctor who would normally waste three hours watching one class could easily monitor exams for several classes at once...