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...like to love it, but can't find myself doing much more than liking it. And for a month that's the only exam-free month of spring, that's just not good enough...
...What effect will student reponses to the survey have? The questionnaire asks our opinion about several important campus issues, including the timing of fall semester exams and the creation of a student center. What would you do if the survey found a large majority advocating a student center? Or a pre-Christmas exam schedule? I doubt you will ever change the exam calendar simply because 99 percent of students want it that way. And what about the section asking for students to come up with ways of improving student/faculty contact? Who will read those responses? What will happen...
...very hard for British undergraduates to experiment, he says. "It may be good to have the chance to switch around a bit," Taylor says. "At Cambridge, the most flexible university in the U.K., the [exam] system allows taking a different subject each year. Normally, if you sign on the dotted line for electrical engineering at 17, that's what you're taking...
...British fellows say they have mixed reactions to Harvard exams. The English "system of assessing performance I find more desirable but I'm an exam sort of person," Taylor says. "There are three terms when...you're just learning, not assessed. After having time to learn, then you're tested. I find it slightly irritating that here the students are tested week by week, as if they were still in" high school...
...exam system at Cambridge and Oxford plays a important role in student traditions. Exam results are posted by name, not I.D. number, "on a sheet of paper tacked on the wall of the senate house." In the maths tripos, the results are read from the top of a balcony in the senate house in order of finish to the assembled students and then thrown off the balcony, Taylor says...