Word: pass-fail
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...third, 1970 was a unique year in Harvard grading history, because students were given the option of not taking final exams and having courses graded pass-fail. One would expect that a one-year change in grading policy would cause an upward blip in cumulative grade point averages for four years...
...tests- optional pass-fail quizzes spaced throughout the semester-are designed to be easily passed...
Institutionally, this "do-good" program is isolated from the "regular" curriculum, and it is graded pass-fail. Students therefore treat it with overt contempt. Where regular classes are characterized by active, engaging class discussion (class participation typically accounts for 50 percent of one's grade), S&E classes were characterized by long periods of blank silence. Where regular classes are characterized by unanimous participation (skipping classes in the business school is a severely punishable no-no), S&E classes saw students leave to interview at investment banks...
...draw first-years into small classes where they can have direct contact with professors. The courses are dynamic and academically rigorous, but they are packaged in a way that makes them comfortable choices for first-years (notably though admission being limited to first-years only and through their pass-fail grading). Unfortunately, the number of seminars offered today is inadequate: two thirds of the 700 or so first-years who applied to be in a seminar this past fall found that there was no space for them. Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan H. Pedersen '82 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate...
...friends and other classmates with whom I started Harvard in the fall of 1996, I have not finished my four years here. (Unsatisfied with the options for Study Abroad, I took a leave of absence last year and spent the year in Jerusalem.) And so, as my blockmates finish pass-fail finals, send acceptance cards to law and medical schools, buy their tickets to Senior Week activities and conspire to sell everything larger than a breadbox at fire-sale prices, I have quietly been searching out a thesis topic, thinking about fellowships applications and rather desperately trying to figure...