Following the Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an impassioned appeal to her school's professors to refrain from takehome exams. “Students risk health and well being, as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers takehome exams without clear, time-limited boundaries,” she told me. “Research now shows that regular quizzes, short essays, and other assignments over the course of a term better enhance learning and retention.”
A.
Elderly students find it hard to keep up with the rapid changes in education.
B.
Some believe take-home exams may affect students' performance in other courses.
C.
Certain professors believe in-class exams are ultimately more helpful to students.
D.
In-class exams are believed to discourage cheating in exams.
E.
The author was happy to learn she could do some exams at home.
F.
Students who put off their work until the last moment often find the exams more difficult than they actually are.
G.
Different students may prefer different types of exams.