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...course was summoned and arrived half an hour later. He identified two or three symbols on the exam for the proctor and then left. Unfortunately the exam contained many more elementary notations which he presumably expected the proctor to know but with which the proctor was in fact unfamiliar. The examination was further disrupted when, due to a mistake on the part of the scheduling office, we had to move twice to different rooms. Over 90 minutes of time were spent trying to resolve the situation and moving rooms...
...office therefore arranged for a proctor to read my Math 1b make-up final to me aloud, in a separate room. A week prior to the examination, I spoke with the scheduling office about the necessity of finding a proctor who knew calculus, for I feared that someone unfamiliar with mathematical symbols would be unable to read the exam to me accurately and efficiently. The scheduling office assured me that the proctor assigned to administer my exam would be fully familiar with the material. At no point did the office offer to braille my exam. That would, of course, have...
Imagine, if you will, having someone unfamiliar with Greek read a Greek examination to you by describing the individual letters in each sentence. Then imagine how much harder it would be to understand the reader if you had never physically seen any of the Greek letters he was describing to you. That scenario approaches a sense of the difficulties I faced trying to take my Math 1b examination with a proctor who could not read math...
Stephen L. Black, the professor who wrote the memo, says he issued the letter to allay the fears of a specific section leader who was unfamiliar with one area of the course...
...just this one day, all the disappointment of the past is forgotten. In Oakland, Kirk Gibson is an unfamiliar name. No one within 50 miles of Anaheim, Ca., can remember who Dave Henderson is or what he did three years...