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Following the lead of other departments, the French department has also signified its intention of clamping down on tutoring addicts by means of the final examinations starting this week.

The tutoring schools have been reaping a good income by spotting passages or French students. According to reports, the most active offender is William Sharpe of Parker-Cramer tutors, who has also been spotting sight passages for other tutoring schools for the fast few years.

According to a statement made last night by Joan Darbelnet, instructor in French, the French department "is putting more stress on sight packages in this year's final examinations."

"We are also "thinking of including a vocabulary list asking for French synonyms of words and phrases.

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