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...think it's a frivolous exercise," says Kevin Lacker, one of last year's winners. "Doing well on the Putnam and doing good math research are two different tasks that take two different kinds of intelligence." In other words, there's hope for us all. Even a genius can flunk a math test--and sometimes that's a good thing. "If you're someone who only likes getting 100% on everything you do, you're going to find the Putnam quite distressing," Vakil says philosophically. "But then again, in both life and in research mathematics, you'll have to deal...
...test kids who have poor lives and inadequate schooling, flunk them and say they didn’t meet the standards. You must first improve their lives and schooling, and then give the test,” Howe said...
...Harvard makes it very difficult to flunk out of college,” he says. “I went on to make it to the finish line as the first Gong to go to college...
...here's why al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters flunk the plain requirements for status as Geneva POWs. Lawful combatants must: have a commander responsible for their conduct, wear a uniform or visible insignia, carry their weapons openly and generally conduct their operations "in accordance with the laws and customs...
...operate under the assumption that students know how to do it--or if they don't, they'll flunk out and it's their problem," says John Gardner, executive director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the leader--along with Russell Edgerton of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning--of a panel of higher-education experts that advised us during our selection process...