Yale News Spots Failures of Blue Sectioning System

Gaping holes in the examination system have been revealed by a Yale News survey of last week which showed that grades in one section of a basic physics course averaged 69, while those in another averaged 81.7.

Examination of corrected hour exams by a News reporter also turned up the fact that one student lost 12 points and another only five for making exactly the same mistake. Furthermore, the three top students in the course all had the same professor for both lectures and conference periods.

The professor in charge of the course, C.T. Lane, admitted to the News that the reason for the unbalanced marks were the "divergent grading, teaching, and testing standards of the 11 men teaching the course."

Sixty percent of a student's final mark in this course depends upon what his section man gives him for recitation grades, and partial credit is given at the discretion of the instructor himself. Some of the instructors are graduate students and some already have their Ph.D. 's, which is one of the main factors accounting differences in the quality of