Scholarship records - storing notes/exams etc from previous classes

[carnation]

As a professor, I knew that kids have these files and I changed the tests a bit every year, never the same Spanish questions. However, I thank God for the sorority test files from back in the day because I had an Iraqi calculus professor. Enough said.

It wasn't just the social Greeks who had test files, though. Several honor societies, such as the pre-med and ag ones, had files in departmental offices.

[alumni]

Thanks to both of you. Where I went to school, we had teachers that gave the same test for decades at a time. One teacher was using the same overhead projector sheet for notes, with the same mistake, for over 25 years until we found it out, and it was in programming!!!

For any of you who were actively involved with the scholorship records, I would like to talk to you in PM (group PM if possible) about some possibilities.

Did any of you have digitized records or were they all just paper?

[aephi alum]

It was very common for individuals to create "bibles" for classes they'd taken. Typically, a bible would include the person's notes taken during lecture and recitation, handouts, problem sets and their solutions, and exams and their solutions. Problem sets and exams changed often enough that you couldn't just copy the answers from last semester's bible onto this semester's problem set.

Some fraternities and sororities kept everyone's bibles (sometimes going back decades) in a central location in the house, and any brother/sister taking that course could refer to them. Some non-greek living groups kept centralized libraries, too - for example, I lived in a dorm with several floors, and my floor kept a library. So GLO members didn't really have a big advantage over non-GLO members. (As a member of an unhoused sorority, I had access to both my sisters' bibles and my floor's library. )

People often referred back to their own bibles from previous courses, too. Say course X was a prerequisite to course Y - it was often useful to have your bible from course X handy when working on problem sets for course Y.