Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a frustrating hour-and-a-half of trying to guess what symbols the proctor was attempting to describe to me, I finally asked him to call the registrar's office. Two members of the office's staff came. One of them asked, with some hostility, what more I could have expected their office to do for me. The professor of the course was summoned and arrived half an hour later. He identified two or three symbols on the exam for the proctor and then left. Unfortunately the exam contained many more elementary notations which he presumably expected the proctor...
...totally blind, and thus unable to read an examination myself. The registrar's office therefore arranged for a proctor to read my Math 1b make-up final to me aloud, in a separate room. A week prior to the examination, I spoke with the scheduling office about the necessity of finding a proctor who knew calculus, for I feared that someone unfamiliar with mathematical symbols would be unable to read the exam to me accurately and efficiently. The scheduling office assured me that the proctor assigned to administer my exam would be fully familiar with the material. At no point...
Despite the scheduling office's assurances, within minutes of starting the exam on March 13, it became obvious that the proctor assigned to administer the exam to me knew very little calculus. He did not know the names of mathematical symbols on the test and resorted to describing each symbol to me by its physical appearance. Thus an integral sign, the most basic symbol of calculus, was "something that looks like an 's'." Those who are not blind often fail to appreciate that I have never seen mathematical symbols. Blind people use the Nemeth Braille Code of Mathematic and Scientific...
...each sentence. Then imagine how much harder it would be to understand the reader if you had never physically seen any of the Greek letters he was describing to you. That scenario approaches a sense of the difficulties I faced trying to take my Math 1b examination with a proctor who could not read math...
...were videotaping the whole affair! Apparently, my classmates did not want to forget how it used to be at the old Union. What better and more natural way to remember the good old days than videotape? "Smile, Sandy! It's for posterity. Remember the time we short-sheeted the proctor...