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It’s week ten and all I can think is how we are halfway through our time here at News Associates!
But down to business: MFI –the acronym dreaded by any News Associates student.
Whether you think it stands for Major Factual Inaccuracy or Major F**ing Inaccuracy, MFIs are the blight of any Reporting exam.
So we settled down to an MFI curing exercise – where we had ever decreasing amounts of time to write fact-filled articles.
Scores were kept and one side of the room was pitted against the other in a tense battle for the array of tempting prizes: a bottle of wine, and masses of sweets – David knew just how to entice us all into working that bit harder.
Needless to say we fought hard for over two hours and the end result was 14–16, with my side of the room bringing home the sweets!
Some shorthand whizz kids took their 100 words per minute exam this week – and judging from their faces as they came back from an early pub break it appeared the exam had gone well, except for a few pesky illegible outlines.
Now it’s just a matter of waiting for the results!
Daunting discussions of taking the Reporting exam early took place, and we were told ‘two bites of the cherry’ were better than one.
With most of the class wanting to ‘give it a go’, Andy informed us we faced a hard Reporting month!
He was true to his word and two days later, on a Thursday afternoon of all times, we had a pre-mock-mock. How’s that for preparation?
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