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sybeman
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21-Apr-2006, 4:39 AM
High schools do it in five days because you write in your classroom rather than in a big exam hall.

For example, each term at the U of S, there's probably 2000 first-year students taking Math 110. The university has them all write at the same time so that they can standardize the exam. But there's no one room big enough to hold all those students, so they set a schedule so that everyone writing that exam writes it at the same time, somewhere on campus. Same with many other classes, even if smaller.