It’s that time of year again, coursework deadlines. A time of year that leaves every student tearing their hair out over word counts and assessment objectives.
Although, I’m sure we can all agree: coursework is great, well, better than exams, not that that’s necessarily stiff competition.
It doesn’t have the mindless pressure and adrenalin rush of exam conditions, you can revise it multiple times to make sure your guise as a person who naturally uses the words ‘ergo’ and ‘consequently’ doesn’t slip up and in extreme conditions, you may even enjoy what you’re writing about.
If you’re incredibly lucky, it may even be worth a substantial part of your overall grade, which will save you from the wicked exam that you rushed and hyperventilated over.
Yet, the sad truth is that coursework is no heavenly bliss either. The amount of hours spent adding or subtracting every possible ‘very’, ‘really’ and ‘and’ you can find in order to perfect your word count is unfathomable.
Yet, many of us just reach the point of exhaustion where we admit defeat and state ‘stuff it! If it’s a little over: it’s over, if it’s a little under: it’s under. The exam board will just have to deal with it.’
Then, of course, we come to our senses and turn the computer back on as we realise we need that pass.
