June Cross '75, a Currier resident, said yesterday that Kiely gave her an example that later appeared on the exam. Cross talked with Kiely during his office hours last week.

Kiely said yesterday it was possible he told students examples from the exam, but added that "it really didn't make any difference."

He said that it was his intention that the information he gave out about the test be disseminated among students as widely as possible.

"I asked students, section men and the course grader to pass the word on to people in other Houses," he said.

Both Cross and an Adams House senior said that Kiely had asked them to convey what he had said about the exam format to other people.

Patrick Creevy, a teaching fellow in English 166, said yesterday, "I don't remember anybody saying anything about telling the kids about the format."

"I told the kids that called me that the format would be essay and short-answer. I also told them to study their lecture notes. I never got more specific than that," Creevy said.

He added, "I have no idea what Kiely told people in Adams House."

Another Adams senior, who asked not to be identified "because I still have to live in the House," said that his section man didn't want to go into detail in describing the exam. "Only Kiely felt he had the freedom to divulge the specifics of the exam," he said.

The course's two other teaching assistants, George Gopen and Richard Sawaya, could not be reached for comment.

Kiely said he could not advice the whole class of the exam format because the exam had not been made up prior to his last lecture.

'Students Would Fall'

According to a students in the course, "All Kiely said about the exam was that it would be hard, and that students would fail if they didn't do all of the reading. He also said to study our lecture notes."

Michael Bromwich '75, a Quincy House resident, said that Kiely's system for disseminating the format of the test was "nice for Adams House people but unfair for everyone else, especially people who didn't have connections with the people Kiely talked to."

The second Adams House senior, who attended the review session, said that people who went to the Adams meeting with Kiely "ultimately had an unfair advantage in the course."

Another Adams resident at the review admitted the session "was an advantage to anyone who felt good about knowing exactly what was on the exam."

In a more extreme case last June, the Business School canceled a marketing examinations when an estimated 10 per cent of the class obtained advance knowledge of the exam's contents.

A Mather resident said yesterday that he would bring the matter to the attention of the committee on injury later this week