Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 13:14 |
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En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
> > I remember a couple years ago having to take the Graduate Writing
> > Asessment Requirement, where we had to show we could write about a topic
> > at college level (this was to weed out any students who for some reason
> > was able to get out of taking remedial English courses), and we had to
> > write it by hand. Everyone is so used to the computer that writing for 45
> > minutes caused all of our hands to cramp up and us to wonder how the hell
> > we wrote papers by hand in High School.
>
>Try 80 minutes :)
Try 4 hours any day!!!! The average length of an exam in France is 2 hours.
My longest exam ever has been 5 hours. All handwriting, no exam by computer
ever. Imagine a philosophy exam: 4 hours to write an essay of at least 4 A4
pages written on both sides. Even homework had to be handwritten. I've
never had an exam lasting less than 60 minutes. And you don't get multiple
choice exams in France, ever. Too easy for French standards.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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