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From: timlee@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Timothy J. Lee)
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Subject: Re: Exam Files
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Date: 2 Feb 89 02:56:24 GMT
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In article <19810@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:
>on if one is willing to put in enough time.  For exams, there is what the
>Taiwan students call the "archaeology method," which is basically the one
>used by American fraternity houses  --  extensive archives of past exams
>(it's really quite amazing how many professors will give essentially the
>same exam year after year, at least in terms of general content).  For

Not just fraternities...  many other student groups maintain exam files.
Perhaps the visibility of some such files ensures that instructors
don't give the same question (or variation with different numbers) twice.