Show Student life Wednesday April fc 1977 Page 17 Dead Week dead? Is Mosf students do not experience Dead Week by 1 im t (Iraves I' of lest no testing is supto (in r 'luring Dead posed Week It was Friday of Dead Week was bored Winter quarter had been a g(xd one I play‘d the name well and now was coasting into Finals Dead Week with few worries Week was quite productive for me I had completed all my I 'NATOF FAMILY LIFE Dead Week Not Fxistent Tins was what was found ITie total nun ilier of tests reported were 411 During I ad Week 40 4 percent of these 166 or (tired 59 6 jrc erit 247 were taken during Finals Week Of the loo M i assignments During Dead Week I had one test Fortunately it didn't get in the way The ( lass itself decided it wanted to take the test Tuesday of Dead Week rather than the Friday before This was because we wanted to te tested on more material But of people interviewed course the class really didn't make the decision the instructor already had decided how it would lie and under the we were guise of democracy manipulated mt taking it Tuesday It was for our own good Survey Result of Boredom boredom resulted in the following studv In chatting with friends it was apparent to me that Dead Week — a week of no testing prior to was not being Finals Week observed Now I didn't know if this was the norm or not Also I wondered how students felt about the concept of a Dead Week My that Friday I went out interviewed by hand 100 students I asked them how many tests they had taken during Dead Week and how many they were planning to take during Finals Week I also asked them what their major was and then proceeded to discuss the concept of Dead Week with them trying to determine how they felt about the So on and tokftMto tScW 22 people actually lived a I)ead Week exis-tem- e having no tests Twenty eight had only one Fifty however had two or more rune people had four If this is representative of the rest of the university does this mean that 40 percent of all tests taken during the last two weeks of a given quarter occur during "no test" week’ The existence of Dead Week was a student initiated program T was in response to the faculty s idea of a test week Dead Week was created to reduce pressure on the student so he could get caught up and prepare for that final onslaught of tests No testing is suppised to occur during that week The enforcement of Dead Week seems not to happen mainly students don't press it It is an example of what happens to a reform after the reformers have gone Concept Of Dead Is No Problem As it stands now the concept of situation It was left up to the student to decide what he considered to be a "test ” Therefore these "tests" included both final examinations and other testing Some people might consider performance recitals or PE finals tests others wouldn't But the punt is regardless of the FINDING HAVING PROBLEMS GOOD SERVICE FOR YOUR IMPORT? 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