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Many students do not realize what goes on behind the scenes, after test-takers have left the room. Proctors stick around after the exam ends, meticulously counting and recounting tests, ensuring that no exams are misplaced, and sorting the blue books to make life easier for the professors...
Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman rose to make a motion eliminating the current bypasses given for science Core courses for Advanced Placement test credit, but withdrew it after a short speech...
College is the only place where the last two weeks of your time determine your effort for the year. But not only is the time factor of final exams flawed, but the composition of exams is equally at fault. How can three hours test the amount of information amassed during a semester? If we were given a blank blue book and told to write down three hours worth of material from the class, most people would be able to do it, and no one would write down the same things...
...three hours of a final exam test very specific pieces of information and many times leave out important concepts. So a final exam also is a skewed test since it cannot incorporate the entire class...
...American Revolution gave artists a new subject: now that America had a history with its own large repercussions on the world, and a cast of heroes and Founding Fathers to match, it needed icons of both. The test case was George Washington, who died in 1799. Paintings of him were in fairly abundant supply. The record for Washingtons, however, was set by the gifted and profligate Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) after the President first sat for him in Philadelphia in 1795. Stuart painted at least 114 of them, 111 of them replicas of three originals that he made from life...