Word: exam
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...messes come to me, and I help them to deal with the pressure," Sampson said. The importance of relaxation, achieved through hypnosis, is as great in working with college students as with any other group. Sampson also focuses on memory retention--better memorization of detail and fluid concentration during exam-taking. "Some of my students look at what I do for them as a way to get better grades. This may be true in one sense, but I look at my work primarily as a way to help these young people to survive tension and pressure, and to even enjoy...
GALLOWS HUMOR is a delicate thing. Any one who has loitered outside Mem Hall waiting for an exam to begin knows that feeling of disgust when the inevitable clown makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify...
...think about a problem for two hours and not get anywhere, and then walk out of the exam and see it five minutes later," Kuhn said, ruminating on the vagaries of the mathematical life...
...cagers will try and regain the plateau of excellence they displayed during their last two games when they host Columbia and Cornell this Saturday. Both squads have previously dispatched the Crimson, a team that was just coming off of a long exam layoff...
When should students be tested? Many states, realizing that students must have time for remedial work if they fail a competency exam, are studying programs that would test students from early elementary grades upward. Extended remedial programs, however, would clearly cost additional tax dollars which may not be available. Warns Paul Hubbard, executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association: "Without a commitment of funds, the real danger is that we'll give a test that will put the stamp of failure on thousands of Alabama young people, and no alternative course will be available...