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More than 40 per cent of the freshman class has not attempted the computer programming test for the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) and will face unspecified action from the Freshman Dean's Office if they fail to take the test before winter vacation, QRR officials said yesterday...
About 675 students have not yet taken the test, which freshmen must attempt by the end of the fall term and pass by the end of spring semester, Jeffrey Tecosky, a Core Curriculum preceptor responsible for QRR, said yesterday. The test has been offered three times weekly since the beginning of the term and will not be administered during reading or exam periods, he added...
...problem of procrastination, not a problem with ability," Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and chairman of the Core subcommittee on QRR, said yesterday. In planning, "we seriously underestimated the amount of procrastination, and overestimated the number of people who would need help" passing the test, Gleason added...
Students can fulfill QRR, instituted in 1980, by passing both the computer exam and a data analysis test, or by passing Quantitative Reasoning A (QRA). A total of 206 freshmen are enrolled in QRA or one of the introductory computer courses--"Automatic Computing," Applied Sciences 10, and Applied Sciences 11. "Computers, Algorithms, and Programs"--from which a passing grade can be substituted for the computer test...