Kuala Lampur, June 29 -- At Universiti Malaya, it's the exam season again. And there is a certain atmosphere on campus during this period of time.

The cafes become quieter. Library seats disappear before breakfast. Students walk across campus carrying fewer conversations and more notes. Even the usual question, "Where are we eating today?" is replaced with, "Where are we studying today?"

As lecturers, we notice these little changes every semester. We also notice another familiar sight: some students arrive with lecture notes highlighted in four different colours (now that they're in PDFs they are even more colourful), convinced that the more pages they memorise, the safer they will be in the examination hall.

Perhaps that strategy work...