>There is a potential that a person will have to repeat a course if it is a requirement for their degree. How is that not high stakes? The result of several mo

>There is a potential that a person will have to repeat a course if it is a requirement for their degree. How is that not high stakes? The result of several months worth of effort hinges on what they do during a 2-3-hour window. If you had to build something and the last step involved a procedure that could potentially tear down everything you made, you would try to find a way to redesign it so that didn't happen, or to limit the scope of the damage.