Diary of an MW student – part 24
Friday 6 May 2011

INHAFE: I now have acronyms for everything.
They have resulted from my attempts to formulate a system for tackling the tasting paper. Until now, I have adopted a scattergun approach to the answers, relying more on luck than design for my marks. And it showed, since my last assessed tasting paper (at the second-year seminar in Bordeaux, about which read more in Diary of an MW Student – part 21) scored less than 50%, a pretty abject fail.
Many of the missing marks can be got through simply remembering to mention everything, and this is where the acronyms come...
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