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...communication printed on another page concerning the recent mid-year examination in English 2 makes interesting reading. A three-hour test with 61 sub-divisions can hardly be called typical of Harvard examinations, nevertheless it does represent a type of examinations only too common in the College at present...
Under the present system of giving make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
Under the present system of giving make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
...case of one man this year, eight three-hour examinations had to be taken in nine successive days. Toward the end of such a period a student is mentally exhausted, and his chances of passing in the last two or three tests is dangerously impaired. Another element which makes these extra examinations even more onerous than they naturally would be, is the fact that the make-ups require if anything a longer period of review than the examinations would if taken in February. This is true because of the greater time which has elapsed since the work was taken...
...grasp of a subject as a whole.- (1) Successive hour examinations on particular periods would not so test his work.- (x) No one of them would apply to his work as a whole.- (2) A final hour examination on the work as a whole could not be a fair test. (x) Not more than two or three general questions could be given on such an hour examination.- (A) Time must be left for special questions.- (B) Not more than seven or eight general questions are now given in a three-hour examination.- (y) When questions are so few chance largely...