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Linda G. Sexton '75 and Philip E. Clapp '75, both Mather residents, said in their grievance that Robert J. Kiely, professor of English and master of Adams House, gave a limited number of students an edge on the exam when he revealed its format and two questions during a review section in Adams House last Thursday...
...long as I have taught, it has been my practice to discuss the format of my examinations with students and to give one or two examples of questions to be asked. When the exam was written early enough, I have done this in class; when it was not, I have done it during office hours and with any individuals or groups I happened to encounter before the day of the examination. My purpose in doing this was not to give special advantage to those who happened to be in class a particular day or who came to office hours...
...told the kids that called me that the format would be essay and short-answer. I also told them to study their lecture notes. I never got more specific than that," Creevy said...
Kiely said he could not advice the whole class of the exam format because the exam had not been made up prior to his last lecture...
Michael Bromwich '75, a Quincy House resident, said that Kiely's system for disseminating the format of the test was "nice for Adams House people but unfair for everyone else, especially people who didn't have connections with the people Kiely talked...