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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: Exam Files
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Date: 24 Feb 89 17:11:26 GMT
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In article <2505@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
>
>Some instructors with-held exams since they re-used them but most
>didn't.

Then there's the Spring, '86 Physics III Final at the U of Md where good
ol' Dr. Kacser's Fall '84 Final had been passed around from student to
student.  I personally worked through the thing backwards (questionwise)
while walking home from the library on exam-eve.  Next day me 'n' my pal
Charlie walk in, sit down, accept the Final, and do the tightest take in
showbiz history.  See, good ol' Dr. Kacser had taken his Fall '84 Final,
changed the dates to Spring '86, munged a constant or two, and reprinted it.

I scored in the high nineties (but trust me, I would have, regardless;
Dr. K. was a pain, but the easiest examiner in education history; he
had a low opinion of his pupils' intellect), Charlie did a little
better.  We never found out if the Fall '84 version was supposed to be
in circulation, but it's something of a de facto policy that all forms
of assignments at the U of M are expected to end up in the Student
Tutorial and Referral (STAR) Center, donated by students in current
classes for the edification of anyone with enough xerox-nickels.

We can always say that's where we got it.

				--Blair