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2019-04-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Oxford University offers mock exams to help ‘snowflake' students overcome their anxiety about sitting real tests

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 When times get tough the herd will get culled.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-04-29 00:43|| 2019-04-29 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 it's time too cull a whole lot of these shitheads.how the hell they going too work a real job if they can't sit and take a test?

Posted by chris 2019-04-29 10:16|| 2019-04-29 10:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Sheffield University warns students that exam stress may cause ‘unpleasant scenes or flashbacks from previous exams’ and ‘feelings of terror’.

So there I was, sitting in the Calculus 101 final. Explosions. Smoke. Screaming. Derivatives everywhere. Suddenly the TA yelled, "Charlie at the wire!" and I knew we were goners.

Posted by SteveS 2019-04-29 10:41|| 2019-04-29 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 So there I was, sitting in the Calculus 101 final.

Don't drink and derive.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-29 10:56|| 2019-04-29 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 #4, TOO funny! Thanks for a good laugh on a Monday morning!

Posted by Tom 2019-04-29 11:14|| 2019-04-29 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Gooks in the area under the curve!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-29 12:37|| 2019-04-29 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Hunters for variables or pursuers of asymptotes, they all had gone out on that graph, bearing the slide rule, and often the eraser, messengers of the answers within the equations, bearers of a question from the teacher's assistant. What greatness had not been bounded on the function of that river into the mystery of an unknown answer! . . . The dreams of men, the small pebbles of math, the germs of empires.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-04-29 12:39|| 2019-04-29 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 21 Indian students kill themselves in a week after IT blunder meant they failed key exams

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-29 16:55|| 2019-04-29 16:55|| Front Page Top

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