Word: proctors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before now, no one has figured out a way to actually make money off idle daydreams of the best way to fool an exam proctor...
Last, the proctors are supposed to distribute extra bluebooks, pencils, extra pens. They also do an amount of administrative work and escort students to the infirmary as needed. They should not be asked questions about the content of the examination. On a recent day, the proctors in Memorial hall would have had to be conversant in Intro Psychology, Major British Writers and Elementary Akkadian in order to provide the type of help Hixson seems to want. The course head or delegate is responsible for answering questions on the examination itself, and if no person from the course...
STUDENTS with questions about an exam would be out of luck, but they generally are anyway. The average proctor is unable to help and tends to regard any question as an unfair attempt to extract information...
...only real problem with self-scheduled exams is the mess it would create for the registrar. But if we turned our present exam proctors into assistants for the registrar, the office could easily handle the sudden upsurge in work. In fact, net bureaucratic administration might even be reduced, as a proctor who would normally waste three hours watching one class could easily monitor exams for several classes at once...
IMAGINE THAT YOU are sitting in a classroom in Sever Hall on the morning of a big exam. You have been tense for three days. You didn't sleep very well last night. You're rather nervous as the proctor passes out the blue books...