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ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 44

June 2022

The Return to Paper-exams: A

Discussion

Carolin Sherif,Adham Nasr Eldin,Mary Rizk,Reem Omran ,Hania Bahaa

The witnessed circumstances of each era impose
different patterns on its inhibitors, and as a result,
plenty of evolvement phenomenon occur, and man
falls in the middle of the road, confused between
standing in front of the waves of change or drifting
behind them with ease. Amongst those
circumstances was the infamous Covid-19
pandemic, and perhaps the most prominent thing it
imposed was the implementation of social
distancing to contain the crisis. In turn, mankind
found themselves facing new daily patterns they had
never been accustomed to; On top of those patterns
is online learning, which FEPS has been
successfully implementing the past 2 years.
However, the long-awaited return of On-Campus The interview's opening question was
simple: Is this your first time attending
paper-tests made a comeback this examination On-Campus exams or had you experience
session. So, we, Elite's team, were eager to discuss
the launch of the examination marathon in its old them before? The answers, of course, varied
forms with a number of FEPS students, and the according to the academic level of each
interview went as follows: student. Second-level students responded
that they had never experienced taking on-
campus paper tests, since they joined the
faculty in the midst of Covid-19's imposed
social-distancing measures, and thus, they

18 had only taken online exams. On the other
hand, third and fourth level students
responded that they had previously taken on-
campus paper exams before the outbreak of
the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.