Me, I did the five minute version - I just studied what people actually remembered five minutes after doing the finals!
Reminds me of a conversation I had with an elderly (or so he seemed to me at the time) barrister when I was a student about to sit my Bar Finals.
'I'm told they're much more difficult now. In my day, you could read up on the train and get through Bar Finals.
Really?
Oh, yes. If you had a Law degree, they weren't very challenging.
Did you pass first time?
Err, no. Like a damn fool I caught the express.'
"uni training is to prepare you to think" That's the nub of the matter - which is often overlooked these days.
A problem with
some of the now called 'universities' is that they don't do that; they simply teach students to pass exams.
Further, some subjects now studied to 'degree' level simply don't lend themselves to academic study.
eg Many vocational courses.
If
Dangagan had asked his question years ago, I would have given a different answer. However, because the Government has been so keen to make the university figures/school-leaver unemployment figures look good, the distinction between academic and vocational study has now been blurred - even though the two are very different.
I thought the HNC/HND system was good, and more appropriate. Now, instead of obtaining a respected HND in a subject, a large percentage of students end up with what many people regard as a joke degree.
"it often doesn't matter which degree you have" If you're referring to academic courses at good universities, I agree entirely.