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In an attempt to set up a "fairer" grading system, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided to give more C's and D's to graduate students starting next year.
If graders know that final exams will be returned to students, they will have to take more time with their corrections, adding longer and more careful comments to the student's work. This necessity will undoubtedly increase the burden of the already underpaid and overworked junior Faculty member. Such conscientious...
One of the problems facing admissions officers, Wilson notes, is the accurate evaluation of the academic standards of various schools. This, of course, is closely connected with the grading system. In last year's freshman class at Amherst he says there were 40 students who received C in English, although...
JOB-GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy.
Started as a mutual self-help scheme among British Commonwealth nations, the Colombo Plan has since expanded to nearly all free Asian nations, produced in five years an interchange of $2 billion worth of economic development. Donor nations, e.g., Britain, Canada, Australia, have poured in capital and know-how, while...