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Subject: Re: Exam Files
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Date: 18 Feb 89 02:33:16 GMT
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In article <Feb.4.12.45.40.1989.17418@paul.rutgers.edu>
byerly@paul.rutgers.edu (Boyce Byerly ) writes:

    Finding old exams is certainly a sport practiced by any
    serious student, but I don't really think it's entirely fair:

        1.  There is a penalty for introverted students,
        freshmen, and parttimers; they probably don't nearly as
        good sources as many.

        2.  This practice tends to encourage memorization over
        understanding, which is never a good thing.


When I was a student at CAL (University of California, Berkeley
for the unenlightened) the EE Deptarmtent had a rule that all
instructors file copies of their exams with the department.  Thus
the departmental library had exam files for all courses.  There
were similar files in the Engineering Library.

Some instructors with-held exams since they re-used them but most
didn't.
-- 
=Dennis L. Mumaugh
 Lisle, IL       ...!{att,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm  OR cuuxb!dlm@arpa.att.com