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Though confusion seems to dominate the entire QRR operation, one absurd fact has emerged from beneath the mountain of tangled print-outs in the Science Center basement: Almost 200 freshman face a term on academic probation if they do not return to school early next fall and pass an exam which they failed to knock off during the past nine months...
Beren agreed, saying "We have to get our term papers in today because we won't be back until exam period...
...have a shot at the brain surgery department he's wanted to join since he was nine unless he does better on his Organic final than 90 percent of the class, not the Social Studies jock who won't graduate summa unless she gets a flat A on the exam in the Astronomy course she still hasn't bought the books for because she spent the entire term writing about underdeveloped nations perceptions of Max Weber, not the Porcellian Club member whose father will cut off his allowance if he doesn't maintain a C average but who hasn...
...thought you could screw up a final? Listen to Diana Whitty, the official in the registrar's office who supervises the administration of exams. "The most terrible things can happen," she says. "Once a Buildings and Grounds crew turned off all the water in Memorial Hall and started tearing apart the mens room--they forgot an exam was going on that...
...Exams started half an hour late that morning, but normally the routine of preparing and delivering tests runs without a hitch Professors can opt to print up their tests and bring them to the exam room themselves, but about half the Faculty--especially instructors in large courses--chooses to let the registrar's office do the work, setting in motion an elaborate process that is cloaked in secrecy...