Exams

“You’ll be fine”. “It’s only first year”. “You can’t change anything now”. Who are you people, offering this useless type of advice, or, are you the one listening to it? Something you soon realise at university is that there are two types of people in the world: the worry-ers,...

The university’s tireless urge to ruin any hopes of a winter break with the threat of looming exams is an unavoidable fact of student life. It’s super important, therefore, to deal with the inevitable stress that these exams bring. This means we can enjoy the festive period as much...

More universities are choosing to use e-exams rather than traditional written exams. Universities such as Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Nottingham have all started to increase the number of exams completed on computers. The rise in e-exams is partly due to the fact that students have poor handwriting skills as a...

The end of university is a strange and conflicting time. With deadlines done and exams taken, ideally the only feelings we should be experiencing are joy, relief and giddy excitement at the prospect of new beginnings and fresh starts. No more all-nighters in the library, no more terrible campus...

On the silver screen, drugs have always seemed to play a major role. From old Hollywood to twentieth century cinema, we have seen many films glamourise stimulants by using them for recreational purposes. With the release of films like Limitless, however, there is no disputing that we are seeing...

University of Nottingham (UoN) Sociology students have been informed that the marks obtained in their recent “Social Perspectives of Medicine: The Case of Psychiatry” exam will be disregarded from their overall module grade. The exam, sat by second and third year students on the 12th January, included the same...

Thou Student Will Survive is a guide to university – with a difference. Through her personal experience of UoN life, Impact’s resident columnist Olivia shares her student commandments… Thou tea towel does not count Wrapping a tea towel around your head and claiming you’re a Shepherd doesn’t quite cut...