Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tutor said members of the department agree that the students did very poorly on the examinations. He said the principal question revolves around whether "we should fail them when we allowed them to go so far" in the department...
...tutor said the most disturbing problem about the large number of failing grades "was that it had been so long since this has happened." "It came as a total surprise," he added...
...tutor and Thernstrom both said the small number of failing grades given in recent years led some seniors to believe they did not have to study seriously for the general examinations. (The topics covered by the questions in the general examinations are given out several months before the test...
Although the Board vote was upheld in a department meeting, the tutor said many members of the department at the meeting expressed discontent with the board's decision...
...tutor said there were some questions raised over whether several of the students would do better in general examinations to be given next year, and whether it was fair to fail students whom the department had been passing in courses for four years...