Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saintly statues of medieval Christianity, the heroic proportions of a Michelangelo, the classical revival, and the textured boldness of contemporary art. No longer do multiple-choice tests offer nonsensical or mildly deceptive wrong answers, or reward fact fanciers with high scores. The best of the new multiple-choice exams test logic, not memory, and conceptual understanding rather than rote learning. And the exam's old reputation for superficiality is fading...
...hundreds of teachers who meet in drafting committees. Each new question undergoes a trial run in a current test; if it proves too hard, too easy or too ambiguous, it is revised or dropped. So rigorous is the selection process that only one question in ten reaches an exam in its original form. For example, when students were asked to decide whether "Alpha-particle emission with long half lives is a property peculiar to a) compounds, b) heterogeneous matter, c) the heavier elements, d) the lighter elements or e) uranium," many students interpreted "peculiar" as meaning "strange or unusual...
Among the pillars of Exam Group XII is English 70, a popular tour of American literature conducted this term by Alan Heimert. Elsewhere in the English Department Walter Jackson Bate illuminates the "Function and Criticism of Literature" in English 192, and scads of undergrads submit to the spell of John Finley's epic oratory in Hum 2. Universalists must choose between Merle Fainsod's treatment of Soviet Dictatorship in Government' 115 and the "Principles of Ecology" studied in Biology 143; the undecided settle on Iranian 175, "the Culture of Ancient Iran." Scientists delve into Geology 271a, "Mining Geology," or aspire...
...philosophy, history or English that he happens to have missed. The plan, probably the first in the U.S., is aimed at students who cannot show up for class because of illness or scheduling conflicts, and at industrious pupils who want to hear a lecture repeated before taking an exam. What is to prevent an Ithaca student from going through college in pajamas, without ever having to leave his snug dormitory room? Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert M. Davies is not quite sure, but one hedge is an attendance system that strongly discourages cutting classes without a good excuse...
...father, former conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra and now a violinist with Philadelphia's Curtis String Quartet, he began studying the violin and piano at seven. At one period, he renounced music for medicine but soon relented. "Every time I sat down to write an exam or cut up a dogfish," he says, "there I was with a Brahms symphony running through my head." In 1958, after studying conducting for three years at Vienna's Academy of Music, he entered Britain's international conductors' competition at Liverpool, walked off with first prize. This launched...