This Just In From The LSE Exam Board

Just got this from the LSE exam board. Can we talk about LOVING THYSELF? Puh-lease! Note the rest of the sentence that follows the overly articulate use of the word "cachet." Fine, if the University feels this way good for them, but to write it down in an email then send it to the entire student body to "rearticulate" it is just ridiculous, especially when it's completely untrue. Can you tell I'm not a satisfied student?

Important Information for Students about Exams

You don’t need me to remind you that the School’s examinations season is imminent. Naturally I hope that your experience of the exams will be trouble-free and that you will do yourself full justice in them. But the purpose of this note is to remind you of key areas:

Exam cheating:

The School takes a dim view of exam cheating. With potential penalties being so serious, it is simply not worth the risk to cheat.

Exam difficulty:

Please note that examinations are intentionally difficult, and feel more so under the pressure of timed conditions. The cachet of LSE degrees, in the eyes of other universities and employers, is at least in part based on the School's rigorous academic standards. You should not therefore be surprised when your examinations feel more difficult than the previous years' papers from which you have been revising. Examinations might contain questions that surprise you and that are unlike past examination questions. This is intentional: the examiners want to test that you have understood the material well enough to cope with new types of problems. Though challenging and difficult, the exam will also be fair.

Good luck with your exams,

Simeon Underwood
Academic Registrar