{"id":14199,"date":"2011-12-13T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2011-12-13T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:04:17","slug":"first-year-students-get-an-exam-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/12\/first-year-students-get-an-exam-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"First-year students get an exam boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2795\" title=\"students writing exams\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/exams2.jpg\" alt=\"students writing exams\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students in residence got a boost this month in the form of the second annual Exam Pump Up.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the Department of Residences\u2019 Dons of Academics, the event Dec. 2 got students motivated for studying. The featured speaker was Thomas S. C. Farrell, professor of Applied Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for Brock\u2019s professors to give their time to help motivate students for exams, Farrell said. He encouraged students to not give up and offered some exam study tips and tricks for how to stay on task in the face of distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Students received exam care packages with exam-writing tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/registrar\/guides\/returning\/importantdates.php\" target=\"_blank\">Exams run from Dec. 7 to 20<\/a>. Residences close on Wednesday, Dec. 21 and will reopen on Sunday, Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related story:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13936\">What&#8217;s open and closed at Brock during the holiday season<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are writing exams until Dec. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[72,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14204,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions\/14204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}