The same assessment content can be used for online homework, PDAs, printed Scantron exams, and online exams.

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Around the country, students are listening to podcasted lectures and taking exams online.

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Students have the option of taking their exams online.

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The top 410 performers on exams were online students.

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She also cautioned against the pressure that could be put upon young people - both in terms of worrying about exams and the social pressures of a 24-hour online culture.

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Its institutions publish online compendia of the government's directives, the results of civil service exams (based, they claim, on merit, not factional allegiance), and send text messages to the lucky few cleared for travel to Egypt to update them on bus and crossing times.

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Through the OpenCourseware Web site, lecture notes, exams and other resources for more than 1, 800 MIT classes are available online for free.

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