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...Some people think I've mellowed out. Freshman and sophomore year I would run around like a chicken with its head cut off, trying to cram it all in," she says. "It's like being in a candy store--you have all these sweets and tidbits you want to try--and then you get full...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Luck and the World Smile Upon Her | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...time to enroll, a time to graduate; a time to cram, and a time to regurgitate that which has been crammed...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Between 11:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the number of people in the bar has swelled. Three women from Lesley College sit around one of the tables in the middle of the bar. Other students cram narrow passageways, sit along the bar and crowd the small tables on the opposite wall...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: From Bikers To Preppies, Bud Hats To Chinos | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

...sense the gulf crisis has turned everyone into a student. The public response resembles a massive cram session, as earnest people try to understand the complex forces at work and calculate the potential costs, human and material, of going to war. Until the Administration makes clear whether its goal is to defend Saudi Arabia, or protect the flow of oil, or free Kuwait, or crush Saddam, or punish aggression, or all of these, the public may not be able to find much justice in the cause -- or judge whether it is a goal worth dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Peace a Chance | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Many educators argue that high SAT scores are no more accurate a predictor of academic success than high school class ranking or grade averages. They also charge that SAT success can be learned, pointing to cram schools that promise, for substantial fees, to raise students' scores by 100 points or more. After a two-year study, Dr. Stuart Katz, a University of Georgia psychologist, concluded last March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Test That Everyone Fears | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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