OK, so some of your friends (or maybe you) have flunked a grade at some point or took a little longer than you planned with college but … 44 years? Vegetable stand or no, it is hard to imagine being so busy with work that you simply cannot study enough to pass secondary school exams. But one m...

More of Crayons' Term II exam responses. Book: Canada Eh to Zed Question: What are some Canadian things starting with the letters V, W, X, Y or Z? Xylograph; Yoho – it means “awesome� in Cree; That thing that smooths out the ice [Zamboni];X-Country Skiing; Zipper; Zed! Memory work: Sing the fi...

And, so? It is up to the teachers — and the administrators who support us — to structure the courses so there is nothing magic about getting to the best grades. It's actually great that the students care about achievement, and it's fine that they want grades that will help them get things they w...

It had been a very stressful year, I mean 2008 . Sobrang daming nangyari sa life ko and I believe it was the highlight of my life yet. It started off well in January with plans of joining the Thailand duty which happened late February. Then came March, the deliberation for the graduating batch, with...

It wasn’t a mega-high score, but I passed the 1Y0-264 Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server 4.5): Support exam with an 82%. Only needed a 64%. By section it was: Monitoring, Managing and Maintaining the Environment, 77%; Troubleshooting, 83%; Optimizing the Environment, 85%. I actually thought I ...

The heavy metal genre is hardly lacking in ridiculous band names and over-the-top album covers - in the case of Manowar here, we get both. This is one arena where the real names sound too good to be true, so can you tell which ones actually are? Take my quiz and see if you can thrash out the authent...

RTFA: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/0… DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn’t it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it’s easy to fling open t...

Almost oneinseven secondary schools are threatened by closure after missing key Government exam targets....

Lean Left thinks you're not getting it. IN THE COMMENTS: Bissage says: I managed to get about one-third of the way through. That’s exactly the kind of sophomoric and prolix crap that tempts a survey course grader to take the stack of bluebooks and simply toss them down the stairs. Ha ha. Now, I've...

Rabbi Nachum Shifren (WWW.RabbiFor26.com) emails: There are some things that people refuse to speak, even if they are true. We live in a culture that is so ingrained with "cultural sensitivities" that some issues may not, cannot, be discussed for fear of crossing the lines of comfortable d...