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More stringent grading is a reason for one of the more interesting findings in the survey. Despite the fact that the size of the department has decreased in the past four years, and much of the dilletante element has dropped out, the overall level of marks has not changed.
The professor in charge of the course, C.T. Lane, admitted to the News that the reason for the unbalanced marks were the "divergent grading, teaching, and testing standards of the 11 men teaching the course."
Business School officials changed the exam system for first year men in order to make grading less of a "one shot" matter, establish a steady workload throughout the whole term, and to leave more time for case work.
When the Yale Law School faculty voted to change its grading system last year no one batted an eye in either New Haven or Cambridge. The new system, reducing all grades to four--excellent, satisfactory, pass, and flunk--was designed to reduce the emphasis on percentage points, an emphasis which...
Is there any discrimination against women? No more than on any other civil service exam, said Chairman Albert J. Schaffer. Veterans get a break in the grading, and half the people who pass the J.M.A. tests pass on the basis of veterans' point preference. Is the test itself too...