Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From 1955-1960 I had the good fortune to live in China as a high school student. The school I attended in Peking was connected with the Teacher's College, and was regarded as a model school. Entrance was by nation-wide exam, very much like our college boards, except that this exam was used by each city and school as the sole criterion for selection...
...Cramming and psyching out an exam" were universally distasteful to the Winthrop and Kirkland men, as were "religious ethics...
Half the responders were also asked how they thought most students would answer the question. They rated "cramming" and "psyching out an exam" higher and "conscientious study" lower than those who answered for themselves...
Mark W. Roskill, assistant professor of Fine Arts, mentioned a plan which went into effect last year in his department to resolve the conflict with generals. A senior submitting a thesis in Fine Arts does not take the regular generals. Instead, he is given an oral exam on the subject of his thesis...
...Social Relations Department employs the same scheme of thesis and orals. Kenneth J. Gergen, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said he though the system was "an excellent idea." The oral exam, he commented, "gives the student a much closer contact with a number of Faculty members who carefully review his work...