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It's not unusual for students to crush and snort ritalin before exams in the UK. We have an interesting system - final year exams are essentially a one-shot th
by willtemperley 3y ago
It's not unusual for students to crush and snort ritalin before exams in the UK.
We have an interesting system - final year exams are essentially a one-shot thing in the UK. If you are lucky enough to able to retake a final exam, your mark is capped at 40% - a third class mark. An upper second class degree is required for PhD entry.
Little wonder people will do _anything_ to pass those exams.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoWhat's the justification for capping scores on retakes? I can't believe that any empirical data supports it.
- TrackerFF 3y agoMy guess would be that it gives students the unfair advantage of more study time? Where I studied (Norway), university students would regularly fail on purpose on the first exam, so that they could get two-ish months more time to read on the subject, as the re-take/postponed exam would be around August/September, or January/February - depending on semester. It was/is called "strategic re-take", and unsurprisingly, you'd always see a bunch or A grades on the re-take. Same thing happens in the high-school level. People that want to study wildly popular majors, like medicine, will spend YEARS re-taking HS classes/exams to polish their grades. Those studies are so competitive that you could get almost straight A's, but still not be good enough.
- willtemperley 3y agoGood question. I suppose it's to penalise those who can't work under pressure to a very tight schedule and reward those who are prepared to risk brain-damage with performance enhancing drugs for the sake of recognition.
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- etothepii 3y agoThis is university specific.
- onemoresoop 3y agoIS there an advantage to snorting it? Does it not damage the nasal passages?