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My exam nightmare: views from academia
Guardian Co UK ^ | July 12th 2009 | David Batty

Posted on 07/13/2009 6:59:26 AM PDT by Cardhu

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To: Cardhu

Have you ever had a fatal accident, please explain.


21 posted on 07/13/2009 7:38:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
... if you would please kindly help me protector the class during the test..."

Need some coffee right now?

PROCTOR: proc·tor n. A supervisor especially of an examination or dormitory in a school.

22 posted on 07/13/2009 7:42:00 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: SES1066

Thank you, Sensei-san !


23 posted on 07/13/2009 7:48:08 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: PeterPrinciple
Have you ever had a fatal accident, please explain

Several...is this the prelude to a question on reincarnation?

24 posted on 07/13/2009 7:50:05 AM PDT by Cardhu (Be happy, today you will be the youngest you will ever be.)
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To: Bigg Red

mark


25 posted on 07/13/2009 7:50:55 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Procter???


26 posted on 07/13/2009 7:52:40 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Cardhu
A rectangular plate is suspended vertically by two links, and is swinging in some manner. A bug is walking diagonally across the plate. Find the total acceleration of the bug.

Dynamics final exam.

27 posted on 07/13/2009 7:56:10 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Stop the change - I want to get off!)
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To: Old Professer

Very gently.


28 posted on 07/13/2009 7:57:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Not a problem, my seito.


29 posted on 07/13/2009 8:02:25 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Q. Why?

A: Why not?

30 posted on 07/13/2009 8:04:58 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Old Professer; Eric in the Ozarks
Procter???

Please, at least misspell it correctly - sheesh! /smile

31 posted on 07/13/2009 8:11:23 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Complicated issue. Personally, I would put the break between modernity and the medievalists before Erasmus and the Reformers...and put them into the next course in the series. But noting where historical epochs begin and end is (obviously) a matter of interpretation.

Was this an undergrad course? Or grad/sem level?


32 posted on 07/13/2009 8:15:43 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: neocon1984

Damn! I thought I knew that one!


33 posted on 07/13/2009 8:29:13 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: martin_fierro

On one occasion a student burst into his office. “Professor Stigler, I don’t believe I deserve this F you’ve given me.” To which Stigler replied, “I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the University will allow me to award.”


34 posted on 07/13/2009 8:34:18 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I got out of taking the final of my Molecular Genetics course (grad level course taken for undergrad credit) when I was the only one in class who had an example of translation control... “the Shine Delgano sequence”.

I thought the Proff was joking when he said I didn't have to take the final. But when I showed up for it he sent me home telling me the same thing he said to your friend; he knew I would get an A.

35 posted on 07/13/2009 8:38:43 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I think that the question also wanted the student to explain how modern theologians differed from medieval thought.

Actually, the question would not be that difficult to students who took a survey of religious philosophy class. It was a required freshman course where I went to school, religion 101. It was difficult only because most of us were too young to understand that level of thought. It requires a some maturity.


36 posted on 07/13/2009 8:44:54 AM PDT by Eva (union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
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To: ConservativeDude

Undergrad


37 posted on 07/13/2009 8:45:14 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

outstanding....


38 posted on 07/13/2009 8:48:35 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Cardhu

My contracts class had 3 hypotheticals all about 10 pages apiece. Nothing quite as disheartening as when your test makes an audible thud when it lands on your desk.


39 posted on 07/13/2009 8:54:30 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Cardhu

I was in college when new math began. To complete my degree, my adviser enrolled me in “Algebraic Principles of New Math”. I could easily relate to the concept of “sets” as that used to be expressed as adding “apples and oranges”, but what gave me a lot of trouble were the 21 steps (as I recall) in proving that 1 is greater than 0. That should have been a clue that civilization was heading into the dumper.


40 posted on 07/13/2009 8:54:44 AM PDT by DeFault User
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