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EXAMINATIONS.
There are two public examinations of all the students, each session,
the one at such convenient time about the middle of the session as the
Faculty shall appoint, the other at the close of the session.
These are thus conducted. The Professor of the School prepares,
in writing, a series of questions to be proposed to his class, and affixes
to them numerical values, according to his estimate of their relative difficulty.
On the assembling of the class for examination, these questions
are for the first time presented to them; and they are required to
answer them in writing, in a prescribed time, without communication
with one another or with other persons, and without any reference to
books. Their answers are subsequently carefully examined and compared,
and a value attached to each, not exceeding that of the corresponding
question. In the schools of languages, subjects may also be
selected for oral examination, and the values of these exercises are
marked at the time.
The students are then arranged into four divisions, according to the
merit of their examinations, as determined by the following method.
and also the values of the answers given by each student. If this last
number amounts to three-fourths of the first, the student is ranked in
the first division; if it be less than three-fourths and as much as one-half,
in the second; if less than one half and as much as a fourth, in
the third; if less than a fourth, in the fourth division.—The examinations
are conducted and the results ascertained by a committee, consisting
of the professor of the school and two other professors.
The standing of each student at the examinations is communicated
to his parent or guardian: and the names of those who are in the first
divisions are announced on the public day, at the close of the session,
and published in one or more of the newspapers of the State.
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