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...fortnight after Thatcher's landslide election win, the mood of many Britishers can be described as analogous to the feeling one gets when successfuly completing a grueling five hour exam the pain is worth the glory. Even those who are not Conservative sympathizers have taken Thatcher's "no free lunch" economics to heart and are he ginning to sharpen their knives for the dinner feast they hope will follow...
...other Cambridge--the one in England--students adopt a different approach to the completion of the academic year. In contrast to Harvard students, who disappear to presumably greener pastures after handing in their final blue book the overseas Cantabrigians take some time off and linger around campus awaiting their exam results. The occasion, naturally is used as an excuse for widespread partying, a phenomenon which has attracted a fair degree of attention in certain international circles...
...three years of lycée are devoted to preparing for the baccalaureate exam, the nationwide test that determines at what level a student can enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand...
...short, White says, "an awful lot of the memories have to do with the feeling of finding and losing significant social groups." Adds Pillemer, "A lot of the memories in our study that are on the surface academic--like taking an exam--have to do with, say, telling their parents about it, or what it means interpersonally. One or two of them are the kind of the typical memories concerning achievement--'I failed.' But most of them are about how others will react...
...Even if it would have been desirable to [notify the students before the exam] the extent of their failure is independent of that and based on almost no work," Verba said...