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Why does it take work? "I try to review the whole course, lectures, textbooks and outside readings which I've assigned. And, I try to create material which covers the whole course."
But after the exams are given, the work isn't over.
"WE HAVE only 24 hours from the time finals are over to the time when the grades must be submitted," said J. Eugene Fox, associate professor of biology.
Bass plans to cram about 36 work hours into those 24. "It'll take us, four of us, about nine hours per man. It's a big job."
Bass and team have 625 students in the anthropology I course to consider. Grading is the easiest part. It's done by machine, and takes about an hour and a half.
After that comes alphabetizing, recording the final grade which takes about three and a half hours, including a double check, and then there's adding up all the scores. Again machines are used, and after the adding machines have added the scores once, they
re-add them so there won't be any mistakes.
"AND." SAID BASS, "when we've got all that done we have to write the grade reports."
When he's got that all done, from his class of 625, there are still between 450 and 500 post cards to be filled in with grades and returned to the students who submitted them.
It's even more work for biologist Fox. His tests are not graded by machines, so eight or nine men will be working about nine hours each on them.
Piekalkiewicz's answers come in essay form, and they're not as easy to grade.
"IN POLITICAL science," he says, "there is no way of evaluating these things. Many questions are subjective in a way. You have to balance originality with fact."
So these are some of the cramming-before-and-after-exam professors. Once upon a time, they were cramming-before-exam students. They offer tips to those who still are.
Bass, who said he didn't need to cram in his later college years, attributes the decrease in cramming to his increase in notetaking.
On his notes he underlined the major points in various colors, stressing the points the teachers had used on previous exams. "The ones in green," he recalls, "I Had to know."
IF IT'S TOO LATE for that tip to help, Piekalkiewicz offers another. Get some sleep the night before the test. He says he's seen people so tired at their final that they couldn't "think straight."
If, the night before the exam, it seems too late for that tip, Fox has one.
"Don't panic. The final exam isn't all as important as most students think. It's not going to make or break your life. If the student goes into it with that attitude he'll probably do a better job."
And, if, upon entering the examination room, the student finds that that tip doesn't help, here's another.
Graduate school Dean William P. Albrecht says that graduate level courses are generally more concerned with "research and individual investigation, finals take on less importance."
College Graduation Requirements
Under the Unit System, graduation requirements would be as follows:
- College students must have a minimum of 32 units with "C" average in major.
The 32 units must include at least 26 from College curriculum.
Specific requirements for graduation would include:
Completion of freshman-sophomore requirements
Foreign language—credit or proficiency in four units.
Students and instructors are interviewed on their opinions of the various programs, and then the board tries to come to some positive conclusions from the suggestions and their own findings.
- Foreign language for professions in four or more countries
- Mathematics—freshman-sophomore requirements
"WE SPEND two days during enrollment week helping the students. The only problem we run into is when a student wants to
The students are selected each spring and represent the various schools at KU, so they provide advice based on their own background.
Western Civilization.
Cann said, "We are working on three programs which are the western civilization course and the comprehensive exam, the English proficiency exam and stop week before finals."
- Two additional units in humanities, natural sciences and mathematics and social sciences.
- Speech.
- At least three additional hours above freshman-sophomore level in major.
- Twenty-two of 32 units must be taken outside major.
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- For double major, at least 16 of 32 units must be taken outside of major areas.
The main purpose of the Student Advisory Board (SAB) is to provide assistance to students who have no advisors, due to their late arrival during enrollment week according to Mike Cann, Russell senior and SAB chairman.
Board's purpose is to aid students
Cann said the SAB helps some 200 students each semester. The are 56 students on the board, with the requirement that each student selected must be a junior or senior and have a two-point grade average.
take something like Chinese, then we get stranded," said Cann.
Starting this semester the SAB has begun a new program of investigating certain programs at KU which seem to cause some resentment among the students.
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