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23rd March 1973, Page 53
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"Profit from Learning" (CM February 23) reminded me of the time approximately 30 years ago, when in a desperate effort to get through the second part of the Graduate examination of the Institute of Transport, I enrolled -with Pitmans in what was described as a "guaranteed to pass correspondence course", and the memory still lingers on of this academic nightmare.

From September to May a frightening flood of literature was received in a variety of packages, our postman at the end of the period becoming wan, worn out, and aged considerably with the manual effort in delivering the fortnightly work load.

I agree one must apply self-discipline, and it meant for me two/three hours work six nights per week. The amount of reading expected of the student would have filled the local library, and during the period a fortnightly test, which was a miniexamination, had to be taken.

, This was before the temptation of television, but my uncomplaining wife, senter4ed to a year of monastic silence, would, I am sure, have started divorce proceedings if I had carried on for a further period.

My anonymous tutor's last comment was to wish me luck and to say that I might scrape through. I passed, but found that this scholastic marathon had meant very little to me because six weeks after the examination my mind was a blank so far as the examination questions were concerned, but I had achieved my object, Graduate status of a recognized body.

E. C. CHALME.RS, Transport Manager, Van den Berghs & Jurgens Ltd.

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