Editorial:
Monday night exams will
ease tension
The University Senate is discussing adding another
night for evening exams. The fourth night of the week that would be
available for students to take exams would be Monday.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights are already
available for classes to offer evening exams to their students. Some
86,000 evening exams will be handed out this semester.
As of now, Monday nights are unavailable for evening
exams as that night has traditionally been one that student organizations
use to hold weekly meetings. With more and more student organizations,
meetings and events may fall on any night, so reserving Mondays has
become moot.
If Mondays are made available, students may have
to worry about missing an occasional group or organizational meeting.
With larger and larger numbers of evening exams
though, some students are forced to cope with exams that overlap each
other.
Overlapping exams force students to divide their
study time and rush through exams. Instead of testing their knowledge
of the course, it tests their ability to frantically plan and test.
The University Senate believes adding Monday evening
exams may resolve some of these problems, by adding more available testing
time.
Because testing times are so crowded, one-third
of professors that schedule evening exams are unable to do so on their
preferred time. This means that students may be tested weeks after they've
finished learning about a subject in class.
Though Monday night exams may prevent students
from joining more student organizations because they are unable to attend
meetings, testing pressures will be eased.
The University Senate wants to know how students
feel about the proposed new testing times, though. We at the Exponent
would like your feedback as well.
Would you rather have less time for exams or more
time for student organizations?
* Editorial Board: Keith Thomas, Tom McHenry,
Melissa Davis and Laura Pelner.
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