My alma mater, whose regular Freshman English program I have praised highly, had a secondary program in basic writing skills for those who (had) failed the English placement exam. I (had) scored a 100 in the exam but my advisor (had) accidentally put my test in the "Dummy English" pile; therefore, I had to take a non-credit English class on the same semester as my first Freshman English class. My advisor apologized to me later but I replied that I (had) learned more in Dummy English than in regular English because the class size was quite small--around ten students--and we wrote a theme each day instead of one a week.

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Brad,

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