Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> 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.
At my Uni, all normal exams are either 4h or 5h, and you write everything by
hand. There's been a couple of exceptions - eg a computer exam my be done on a
computer; but see my other post about one which was not!

                                                           Andreas