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...many men. Students who are accustomed to thinking at the typewriter often find it harder to get their thoughts down smoothly in handwriting. Many men can type faster than they can write, and are used to seeing their thoughts typed in front of them. In addition, for the grader who has to wade through book after book of semi-legible scribbles, typed examinations would be a boon...
Sidetracked. In Los Angeles, a court ordered housewife Mrs. Fredna Pavlich to stop interfering with the building of a railroad spur after the Southern Pacific formally complained that she had: 1) pulled up survey stakes as fast as they could be put in, 2) stood in front of a grader, 3) filled up pestholes, 4) heaved stones at the railroad workers, 5) bit the hand of the railroad's lawyer...
...actually shows but is certain that it might prove all sorts of things. The graph uses letters, specifically Greek letters, to label its parts in order to retain the maximum number of possible meanings and to give it that scholarly tone, so important when attempting to baffle a grader. Under no circumstances should this graph be explained in any more detail than is absolutely necessary, and preferably...
Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...
...pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position" and write "supra", i.e. as we have already shown. If you have made the middle of the essay dull and confusing enough, there is not a grader living today who will be willing to go wading back through it, to see if the point was really proved. DONALD CARSWELL...