CHAPTER VI
EXAMINATION-PREPAREDNESS
All kinds of instructors who hold examinations frequently suggest that the direfully dreaded "exams" will take care of themselves if systematic work be done vigorously and conscientiously throughout the course. This statement may be cordially emphasized, although, however true and important it may be, there is little hope of making students, male or female, young or old, married or single, civil service or naval, in the elementary school or in the university, indolents or "greasy grinds", believe it long enough to act upon it to any appreciably profitable extent. They never have done so (save one or two wise ones here and there) and they probably never will! Nevertheless the fact holds that if we do study properly and conscientiously and scientifically, the examinations will take care of themselves. There are a number of reasons why the matter is important, but one that is very important
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