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The Medical School Faculty will begin using a different grading system on next year's entering class.
The new system, which will not affect those currently in the Medical School, will be based on four rankings. "Excellent," "Satisfactory," "Marginal" and "Unsatisfactory." It replaces the present grading mechanism adopted in September 1970 which has three separate components.
Characterizing the grading controversy as nor that is common to all faculties and schools. Blacklow pointed to the fact that internship committees are looking for slightly different qualities than college admission committees, since an intern is a practicing doctor and not actually a student. More extensive evaluations than a letter...
A dictée, as every French schoolchild learns to his sorrow, is a dictation exercise full of traps for the unwary. Prosper Mérimée, author of the original Carmen, once offered a 248-word specimen as a test at the imperial court in Compiègne...
It is that grading of often capriccios-and, what is worse, it is usually too lax-but nonetheless it is better than alternate methods. All of us have times when we are laxier than usual, but rather than defending our indolence, we should try to eliminate it. Those who aim...