Sentences with phrase «students crammed»

On 11th February, more than 200 students crammed into a 125 - person lecture hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to listen to entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire speak about bitcoin.

Over 60 game developers and students crammed into two classrooms for a 48 hour marathon of intense game creation, joining over 16,000 jammers worldwide.

Students crammed the equivalent of twelve years of schooling into eight.

Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»

Move past that basic set of elements, though, and you start to see the quirkiness that is quintessentially SEGA: old - school combat where you initiate enemy encounters with random punks on the street JRPG - style; mini games that involve cooking noodles to the correct hardness and following the rules of the road with passengers in your taxi; and best of all, a ton of missions that just come out of left field, like helping a student cram for his exams by answering questions about physics and grammar.

While some expert recommendations have seen students cramming for as many as seven hours a day over the Easter break, most teachers will be advising a steadier, less intense build up to exam season.

Each year, students cram into lecture halls to take classes that won't get them any closer to a college degree — shelling out $ 1.5 billion to learn concepts they should've mastered in high school.

Not exact matches

FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extravaganza.

Students are always looking for ways to save money and cut down on costs, whether that means cramming themselves three to a dorm room meant for two, sneaking pieces of fruit from the dining hall to take for the road, or sharing streaming service accounts.

Justin was corralled into a small room where he spent the next 2 1/2 hours crammed with 70 other students.

Transfer student Adrian Bazbaz wasn't used to the late night cramming sessions and sleep deprived lifestyles of his fellow classmates at the school, so he decided to do something about it.

As we tried to interpret some literature crammed with biblical allusions (all of which functioned symbolically), the students were at sea.

When the first group of junior high students arrived for the weekend retreat, streaming out of their crammed First United Methodist Church buses like ants out of a disturbed bed, I marveled at their young faces.

Transfer student Adrian Bazbaz wasn't used to the late night cramming sessions and sleep deprived lifestyles...

As a college student I have no doubt it will be a bit challenging, especially during late - night cramming sessions and morning - after - nearly - all - nighters, but Jesus gave up his life for me so the least I can do is make this small sacrifice.

Cramming in a bunch of private music lessons after school (it's NYSSMA prep time here in NY, which is an adjudicated solo festival for student musicians).

As a final year student, I've now entered that limbo period between receiving my results and graduating, so I've taken some time out to relax, enjoy not having to cram my brain full of French and formulae, and now return to blogging.

«Over 2.7 million public school students are counting on the Senate and Assembly to do their homework when it comes to education — not cram for the exam,» the statement continues.

And 32 students are crammed into his one class, which also impacts his education, she said.

Compare it to college finals week, in which the students who have worked and studied diligently all year are relaxed and those who haven't engage in all - night cramming sessions.

Currently, Richard R. Green, which focuses on training future teachers, is crammed into an overcrowded Upper East Side building designed for elementary students, with no real gym or library.

Medical students are required to memorize such a huge number of facts — from the anatomy and physiology of every structure in the human body to the fine details of thousands of tests, diagnoses, and treatments — that they generally do not have time to critique the information they must cram into their heads.

Although many a college student hopes that his brain will continue cramming for an exam while asleep, scientific proof that that can happen has been scarce.

College students know that cramming for exams will take its toll later on, when they have to sleep off the hours of snoozing they missed.

(He's seen seizures in college students who've stayed up for days in a row cramming for an exam.)

You've made it through four years of classes, student projects, and endless hours cramming in the library: Now graduation is finally here.

Online Students end up cramming due to everything they see and hear online.

In our research, we've long pointed out that merely cramming computers in schools or simply handing them out to students won't produce the educational gains well - intentioned people desire when they start with technology.

Encourage students to create a study planner to build in time for going to class and the library, as well as for study sessions for distributed practice over time to avoid cramming immediately before test time.

Rather than asking how reforms can encourage an array of options (public, private, or for - profit) to emerge that fit the needs of today's students, the free - public - college crowd wants to simply cram more people through the same old expensive, mediocre model of education.

I explain to my students that they'll be more efficient and effective with their practicing if they study for 15 minutes each for three days rather than cram for an hour the night before a test.

A student can get a reliable essay written as quickly as within 24 hours, which certainly makes last minute cramming easy.

Also, by choosing to cram the material, students are denying themselves that dopamine release.

While students» preferred strategy of last - minute cramming seems «smart» (why study every night when you can study just one night?)

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

Traditionally students in public and private schools cram AP courses into their junior and senior years.

Out in the redesign will be SAT words that have long prompted anxious students to cram with flashcards, as the test will now focus on vocabulary words that are widely used in college and career.

Many students attend cram schools or «juku» after school to help them prepare for high school or college exams.

Initial findings suggest that students who regularly employ these strategies in their study routines decreased the anxiety around and the perceived need to «cram» for exams through improved preparedness that effected modest improved academic performance.

At the top, honors students fret not about boredom or weak achievement, but about the stress that attends all that cramming and homework as they compete for entry into high - status universities.

It was hard to find time in an already crammed curriculum, and being an introvert myself, I was especially sensitive to the fear some students have of getting up in front of their peers.

Students can create their own flashcards or access decks created on Cram or Quizlet.

The nooks are places students can cram themselves into to read or work.

Instead, she and her family chose a small new school called Met West, one of thousands of high schools throughout the United States that typically serve between 200 and 600 students, rather than the 2,000 or more many high schools cram in.

The first problem, Horn and Staker write, stems from people «with an appetite for the dazzling technology» who end up merely «cramming more devices, screens, gadgets, and software into students» and teachers» already noisy lives.»

Stealth assessments woven «invisibly» into digital gaming environments have the power to offer continual learning support to students, while reducing test anxiety and cramming.

Revision Flash Cards: This revision resource is ideal for students to make notes in order to use during last minute cramming.

Juku, commonly known as «cram school,» is the private, after - school instruction that most Japanese students receive, especially during middle school as they prepare for high school entrance exams.

North Carolina public schools have failed black students, he says, many of them crammed into the same low - performing, low - wealth schools his legislation targets.

«I think I give more short daily assessments to make sure the students are staying on top of the material instead of waiting until the test to cram.