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...even dream of sleeping late if there's a reserve book simmering on your desk: it will cost you $4.25 a day. Keep it over the weekend and you've bought it. Never, never get sick during exam period: each make-up exam carries a fee of $25. Luckily, the Handbook for Students does offer some hope for relief, if you write to the Registrar four weeks in advance and cancel the exam, you are relieved of your financial obligations. You go scot-free. Unfortunately, you also fail the course...
...standardized test, to take the SAT, which is normally administered to students in their junior and senior years of high school. To qualify for advanced courses offered in a special summer program at Hopkins, participants must score a 500 out of 800 on the mathematics portion of the exam or a 430 on the verbal. Both scores are slightly above the national average for high school students...
...change in College Board policy barring certain age groups from the exam might be an effective deterrent to a surge of teenage graduate students, but such procedural remedies skin the larger issue of how to stimulate gifted minds. Opposition to programs like CTY is not the same as opposition to programs geared at academically students or standardized testing in general. Opponents worried about inappropriate academic acceleration that inevitably results when pushy parents, precocious children, and higher learning institutions join forces. Fortunately, with the mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters...
Percival adds that the biggest challenge in putting on the show is the pressure of time, a concern that is voiced by almost everyone in the production. Because of Christmas vacation and exam period rehearsals cannot begin until February, which leaves only three weeks for the actors, tech crew, and band to whip the production into shape in time for the first show on February 22. The actors have the toughest schedule, with rehearsals running from 2 to 11 p.m. on weekdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and 1 to 10 p.m. on Sundays...
...probably didn't notice it, but it happened last night. Maybe you were chatting with your roomates, washing your grungy exam period clothes, or rereading that classic tome Courses of Instruction...