The custom of substituting one hour examinations for the mid-year examination has already been commended as offering the students an opportunity to escape some part of the mid year work. But all who have taken one hour examinations have experienced the great difficulty, common to all, to do justice to the paper or to themselves in so short a time. Thus a student who is allowed to substitute two one hour examinations for the regular three hour examination, is in reality deprived of one hour's time while expected to cover the same work required in a three hour examination. Two examinations of ninety minutes, or one examination of one hour and another lasting two hours would accomplish the work more equally, while the plan would possess all the recommendations which are urged in defence of two examinations instead of one.
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