> "the socially competent who can get previous exams and the like from social networks"
side note: at Cambridge, every past exam in every subject[1] is in the college library[2], and it's assumed that you'll photocopy them and work through the last 5 years or so for practice. This doesn't help much, of course, because you get a new crazily difficult exam every year[3].
[1] probably not going all the way back to 1209...
[2] i.e. 50-odd small libraries near the students' accommodation, mine was accessible 24 hours a day.
[3] unless it's Terentjev in TP1 (Theoretical Physics 1), who just set us a bunch of previous years questions, which I hadn't bothered to finish solving because they never reused questions. I'm not bitter, I promise...
side note: at Cambridge, every past exam in every subject[1] is in the college library[2], and it's assumed that you'll photocopy them and work through the last 5 years or so for practice. This doesn't help much, of course, because you get a new crazily difficult exam every year[3].
[1] probably not going all the way back to 1209... [2] i.e. 50-odd small libraries near the students' accommodation, mine was accessible 24 hours a day. [3] unless it's Terentjev in TP1 (Theoretical Physics 1), who just set us a bunch of previous years questions, which I hadn't bothered to finish solving because they never reused questions. I'm not bitter, I promise...