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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Exam Files
Message-ID: <7018@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 3 Feb 89 04:34:50 GMT
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in article <19863@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, matloff@bizet.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff) says:
> In article <9388@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> timlee@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
>>Not just fraternities...  many other student groups maintain exam files.
> 
> I seem to recall seeing exam files in the UCB library.  Was that motivated
> by a desire to equalize opportunity?

More probably, professors put them there. There's some professors who
will actually give you sample exams from the previous year, in order
that, as one professor put it, "you fail the test because you don't
know the material, not because you're not familiar with my testing
style." 

I would not willingly entrust my education to someone who uses the
same tests every year. It implies a lack of, uhm, commitment I guess
would be the best word, when someone won't take the time to do a
simple thing like write a new test now and then (wellll.... yes,
writing a good test is time-consuming, but nobody ever said being a
college professor would be a life of leisure ;-}.

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