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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test specific things knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various attempts whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows more that he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a * * anyone who reads...
Juncos & Jaegers. In San Francisco, a seventh-grader named Arthur Wang found a stray Slate-Colored Junco (rarely seen west of the Sierras), while elsewhere in the bay area his colleagues registered the Eastern Phoebe, the Pomarine Jaeger, the Hermit Warbler and the Saw-Whet Owl. From Oahu, Hawaii, a dedicated birder named Grenville Hatch reported sightings by her group of 500 Red-Footed Boobies, 452 Frigate-Birds, 433 Arctic Golden Plovers and one Long-Billed Dowitcher...
Comparable to Ivan's anatomy, my third grader's last science exam dealt with mollusks, amphibia and reptiles. Recently she wrote and illustrated a five-part paper-the first part, "The Creation," Ivan will never have...
When he finishes fourth grade, with a reading vocabulary of 10,000 words, the Soviet student is ready for a systematic study of Russian literature, plus separate courses in history, geography and foreign languages. By contrast, the U.S. fourth-grader is still at work on a "basal" reader with a vocabulary of fewer than 1,800 words, "a middle-class idealization" of cardboard mommies and daddies in "a hypothetical and sterile community"-trirling stories written by obscure women with three names...