University student arriving at exams without the right equipment, one even forgot his pen

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Fail to prepare
Prepare to fail

My OH says this! He was in the Royal Navy for 20 years.

Pupils are given lots of help for exams in most schools, starting when in year 7. They are taught to read the instructions , have the equipment and so on. The trouble is that sometimes they think the regulations apply to everyone else and not to them, backed up by parents who believe that their child is always right.

Should they be going to university at all. I bet they would not have forgotten their phone if it was allowed.

I think so many are 'wrapped up in cotton wool' these days they don't learn to think for themselves. Goodness knows how some will cope in the work place

When they start in the workplace they nowadays develop "mental health" issues as a way of coping so everyone else has to tiptoe around the little darlings.

I see a reference to pro-Palestine demos spreading to Oxford? Perhaps anyone supporting them, or at the various Uni demos in USA, could be asked who the hell they 'think' (if ever) might be taking an interest? The chances of the Iranian Govt, the Israeli Govt, or Hamas, looking at our news bulletins and thinking they should change course would be, what, slim? If not, er, why not?

IF they're actually on demos to complain about the existence of Israel at all, sorry, that ship sailed many decades ago. We could debate the circs of forced Jewish migration from about the 1880s through much of the 20th century, but most countries in Europe, and Russia of course, are at least partly to blame. Judaism in general has caused far less genocide than any other major faith (I'm not religious), and Jerusalem (clue is in the name?) existed a couple of thousand years before Christ.

Anyone protesting should be questioned (as one comment at least suggests) to check if they ALSO have been attending demos for 12+ years, to protest the genocide in Syria by the maniac Assad and his chum Putin, or to protest the ongoing civil war in Sudan, and if they are a little older, did they do any demos against Saddam, while he was busy bumping off over 2 million assorted Muslims, plus Kurds and Marsh Arabs?

A very valid comment DrWatson, but I think it might be helpful for you to comment on the Palestinian/Israel threads as there are many Gransnetters who seem to me to be very concerned about the war in Gaza but have little interest in ongoing wars in other parts of the world.

I saw this in Facebook. It was posted by a bored invigilator. Exam hall bingo!