Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newly elected council member Marcus Q. Mitchell '89 of North House was placed on disciplinary probation last spring by the Ad Board, after he and seven other freshmen interrupted the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) computer test...
Mitchell and his fellow pranksters programmed the printer in the Science Center to print out, "This computer test sucks" continuously. The prank, for which seven of the eight freshman were originally required to withdraw, interrupted hundreds of freshmen who were waiting to pass the QRR test...
...really sure I learned very much, except how to pass this test," said Maurie Samuels '90, who took a mini-course given by the QRR committee...
Although students have until April to take the test, the QRR committee assigns 10 staggered deadlines randomly in order evenly to distribute test takers. Nonetheless, many students took their tests at the last minute last year and faced hour-long waits, said Kuwabara...
...first time this year, freshmen automatically will go on academic probation if they don't pass both parts of the QRR test by April. However, "individual circumstances are always taken into account by the administrative board," said Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses...