Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exam period approaches, these students are probably studying hard, although fairly confident in the knowledge that they have studied well all year. They know, from their interest and application, how they are going to do on an exam even before they enter. And they are correct. When one Strives and succeeds, the competitive excitement of examinations is very pleasant; when one Strives and does poorly, it is a merciless goad to improve...
...horses; acting, writing, carousing, or talking to friends. Rather than give themselves over to any academic system, they deny all systems violently. They only begin a paper weeks after it is due, boasting about their devilry or bemoaning their assured doom. They dip into books just before an exam and fish out some facts to fool the grader. They pick courses for their easiness, seeking out "guts" or indepent study or special unknown seminars. During their rare appearances at a lecture, they generally don't bother to take notes...
...meet with a fairly consistent degree of success. Some get into group one, have papers called "brilliant" and teachers who adore them ruefully and become as a result extreme cynics. Some get consistent Gentlemen's C's. Others spend every weekend in Peru, pay someone to take their exams for them, and get bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick, they...
Although no Scoffer would be caught dead studying for exams earlier than exam week (at which time he may exert veritably superhuman efforts), chances are the spectre of examinations is never completely absent from his thoughts. Engaged in casual poker marathons, putting on faces of nonchalance to the world, he may perhaps shriek in his night-mares "The system is evil, unfair, stupid...
Characteristically, a Skipper has absolutely no idea of how he did on an exam when he finishes it. As often as not, he thinks he got an A when he got a D or vice versa. Most of his grades are incomprehensible to him; lowest, for instance in precisely the courses he likes the best and does the most work in. But on the other hand, some seem completely fair. So he concludes finally that "Marks are totally irrational!" Ask a Skipper about them and he will laugh and shrug. He doesn't know why some people get such consistent...