Word: pass-fail
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...Committee on Educational Policy yesterday backed a proposal to let all upperclassmen take a free, pass-fail fifth course...
...opportunity to eliminate the current practice of giving the same grade in both tutorial and to the thesis--a seemingly pointless redundancy. Just like the freshman seminar program, the ungraded tutorial will not be computed in a student's over-all average, but rather will be judged on a pass-fail basis...
Students will have a chance to vote on the institution of an optional fifth course to be graded on a pass-fail basis when questionnaires are distributed by the HPC in the House dining rooms today...
Although a fifth course would be ungraded under the HPC's proposal, a student could not drop the course once he had enrolled unless he received special permission from the Administrative Board. In addition, the pass-fail course could not be taken to make up a deficiency or accelerate toward earlier graduation...
...began studying the fifth course plan last year. Three other Ivy League schools -- Brown, Penn, and Princeton -- have adopted versions of the pass-fail system...