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...enters the game with the number one national ranking. Harvard takes it away in the following week's poll. The Crimson heads into exam break with a 15-0 record...
...addition, Kahn said the group plans to set up a procrastination hotline to offer support during exam time, and lobby for 24-hour library services as well as a late-night, early-morning pre-med shuttle to the bio labs...
...flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged...
Adopting a variant of the British exam system would also ensure accountability. At Oxford and Cambridge, students complete a large amount of study without exams and then undergo a comprehensive evaluation at the end of their programs. If Harvard were reluctant to accept foreign exam scores, it might allow students to leave for a year and then take one or two broad exams upon their return...
...fulfilled by passing a computer exam and a data test or by successfully completing QRA or one of its substitute courses...