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What Grinds Our Gears: Two+ midterms
July 7, 2022Course selection week! The best time of the semester — when we’re all absolutely drowning in school work. I gloss over prospective course syllabi and suddenly find myself in the shits; I’ve just found out the beloved required course for my degree has midterm exams . . . Plural. This is, of course, absurd. By definition, midterm means halfway. There can’t be more than one halfway point in the term. So then how can there be more than one midterm exam!? Seeing the course syllabus on the SFU website already gives me anxiety. How are you gonna make me write…
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Finals season: a warning
November 26, 2021The cold, like hornets, incessantly stinging at the back of your throat, nibbling at, not only your toes, but your will to live, almost as if it knows, finals season’s prepared to attack stealthily on its tiptoes. It…
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Students learn better through assignments, not exams
November 24, 2020The fact that I see so many posts with some variant of “course suggestions with no exams? TIA” on the Facebook group “Must Knows for SFU Courses” says something about the way SFU students want to learn. The comments, which…
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It’s time that we rethink the necessity of exams in classrooms
July 18, 2020SFU recently announced that the final exam schedule for all classes will be released in October, rather than at enrollment. The change hopes to reduce course conflicts, back-to-back exams, and same-day exams. However, it also adds to student stress about…
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Three key tips for staying strong in your study group
October 20, 2019Let’s face it: we’ve all barricaded ourselves at home for study-related reasons, only to end up watching Netflix and eating snacks on the couch. “I’ll start after this episode ends,” you tell yourself — only for the next episode to…
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SFU is not giving students enough time to prepare for final exams
May 17, 2019Last term, final exams started two days after the last day of classes. Two days. If this does not strike a fiery chord of outrage in your fragile student heart, I don’t know what will. With scheduling this tight, university…
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Weekly assignments and unnecessary stress are counterproductive for students during midterms
June 11, 2018As midterm season approaches, students engage in the common struggle of managing their stress levels while keeping up with school, work, and extracurricular activities. SFU offers resources on managing stress related to school and work. BC’s provincial government also offers…
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SFU Senate discusses mental health
May 30, 2018Student Senators Larissa Chen and Marco Zen gave a presentation titled “Mental Health at Simon Fraser University” to members of SFU Senate at the May 22 meeting. The presentation focused on the “unprecedented demand for campus mental health…
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Do you know how to study?
December 2, 2015[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith final exams fast approaching, everybody should be studying. (Keyword being should.) Do you know how to study effectively? What works for you might not be the same method that works for your peers. People study and learn in different…
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