Turn Over Your Papers Now
Series of five programmes in which John O'Farrell explores our relationship with exams
Turn Over Your Papers Now - Coursework
John O'Farrell explores the unexpected history of the different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. In the fourth programme he tackles coursework.
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Turn Over Your Papers Now - Multiple Choice
John O'Farrell explores our relationship with exams. Multiple Choice was first used to test US soldiers during the First World War.
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Turn Over Your Papers Now - Orals
John O'Farrell explores the surprising history of the different kinds of exam and finds out why, for centuries, Oxbridge finals were all done out loud - complete with a jester.
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Turn Over Your Papers Now - Practicals
John O'Farrell explores our relationship with exams. He looks at Victorian medical practicals and why semi-naked patients volunteered to let students draw on them.
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Turn Over Your Papers Now - Timed Essays
John O'Farrell finds out why the very idea of timed literary examinations caused a small war in the Victorian establishment and how it shaped the way the British power elite thinks.
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