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...fight to return the first two and a half years, or preclinical training, to pass/fail grading. A few months earlier the faculty had voted to add two more ranks to a five-year old experiment at pass/fail grading. So the marking system the students were fighting was a four-point (excellent-pass-marginal-fail) system...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Tortoises and Hares at the Med School | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...Watergate tape recordings; the survey found that 37% of Americans rated Nixon's performance as "good" or "excellent" -up five points since October. The Gallup poll was conducted between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3, after the tape gap became known; it showed a four-point rise −to 31%−in public approval of Nixon since the alltime low in October and early November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: A Holiday Test for the President | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

LAST SPRING the Med School faculty approved a four-point grading plan to replace a pass-fail system for the first year and a half of Medical School. The new system met its first test in late October at a midterm exam in Histology taken by all first-year students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grading Doctors | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...protest stemmed from what students considered an abuse of a new four-point system...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Med Students Play the Numbers Game | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

...That four-point system was baptized last month at a first-year examination in "Histology." When the results came back, 16 per cent of the students received "marginal," or borderline marks, and four per cent had failed...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Med Students Play the Numbers Game | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

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