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...seriousness, take a break from papers and problem sets and frenzied job-hunting once in a while—even while you’re studying for a midterm. Go to the nearest bookseller and spend an hour there. Pick up a Calvin and Hobbes anthology (I recommend the Tenth Anniversary Collection) and tell me what you think...
Length of the Science B-57 “Dinosaurs and their Relatives” midterm...
...It’s not realistic to think the Faculty are suddenly going to start training TFs in the middle of the semester,” says Tatar. “The busiest time of the term for us is midterm, so when you’re in the midst of a course, it just seems to be totally unrealistic that we’ll be thinking about what’s way down the road...
...gear up to take midterm exams, students across the nation have begun to dodge tests of their own. But they aren’t avoiding that routine American history exam or multiplication quiz. Instead, American students are increasingly opting out of taking standardized tests, now mandated by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act. These students playing truant are decreasing the number of student standardized test-takers, and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the core mechanism of Bush’s education initiative...
...there are students who choose to drop out for grade reasons—after performing poorly on a midterm, for example—it is likely that these students would not contribute much to grade inflation. Larger classes that have early midterms often also have pre-determined grade distributions. Because of their curves, these classes will award similar final grades regardless of whether students at the bottom of the distribution drop the class, and those students dropping will not contribute to grade inflation...