Word: examsmanship
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William G. Perry Jr., professor of education emeritus, wrote a very clever essay defining types of examsmanship. A student who has just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...
...proposed system would also offer a student far more extensive evaluation of skills in problem solving, writing, group work, analysis, and argumentation than are now measured in exams. Students would no longer feel that many of their abilities were being overlooked, and that the Law School regarded examsmanship as the most important legal skill...
...instructors of the Reading Class (CRIMSON article Monday, November 14) share a concern about the popular fallacy that one either plays the game of "Examsmanship" or acquires "real learning." We are, of course, opposed to superficially, but we find that the term "real learning" when used in this dichotomy frequently refers to a kind of thoroughness lacking perspective and control...
...view of this effort in the course, I am at a loss to understand how your reporter could quote me as having characterized the Reading Class as a course in "examsmanship." The Examsman, pure type, is naturally free to derive what hints he can from our consideration of the writing of essays, but we imagine that the scheduling of the class at such unholy hours as 8 a.m. may discourage his too regular attendance. John W. Wideman
...reading class, which Wideman called a course in "examsmanship," is an elective, non-credit offering. Since the course is again over-subscribed, students with low scores on the annual reading test have been given preference...