Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, the QRR has been plagued with widespread student apathy and confusion surrounding the administration of the two-part test, which is given at various times through out the school year, and included sections on computers and interpretation of data...
Fifty-seven percent of the Class of '87 passed the data portion of the QRR during Freshman Week, up from 51 percent last year...
Senior Preceptor in Mathematics Deborah Hughes Hallett, who heads the QRR, said that students are taking a less casual attitude towards the requirement and added. "The program is running more smoothly than in the past...
Gleason added that because there are fewer dates to take the data test, it has created fewer problems for the QRR program. The last date test was on April...
Freshmen, and sophomores who faced the requirement last year, have expressed reactions to the QRR ranging from indifference to genuine anger. But they agree almost unanimously that the exercise does little to ensure that computophobes will retain any facility at the keyboard or ever return to the terminal room. The exams demand only temporary mental photocopying and a brief encounter with the machine itself--not an experience likely to yield affection for the Polymorphic Programming Language. If Harvard thinks it's important to expose students to the wonders of the computer, the school should force everyone to take a half...