Drink on Kids; Boozing before exams doesn't hurt Performance???

Rejoice college kids, rejoice! A recent study has proven that a night of drunken debauchery before a big exam won’t hurt students’ performance. This is going to make finals week a complete drunken mess isn’t it?

The study included 193 Boston-area university students who were observed over the course of four days and given either alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer. The morning after downing their drinks, participants were given the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and a mock quiz based on a lecture they heard the previous day. Conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Public Health and Brown University, the study showed that students’ test results did not suffer if they went out drinking the night before the big test if the exam was on material that was recently taught or one that required long-term memory recollection. However, getting hammered the night before your big Shakespeare mid-term might not be the best move as the study also concluded that performance on exams requiring higher cognitive ability, such as essay writing, might suffer after a trip to the bar. As if that wasn’t enough of a bummer, researchers also said:

“It is possible that a higher alcohol dose would have affected next-day academic test scores. Moreover, test-taking is only one factor in academic success. Study habits, motivation and class attendance also contribute to academic performance; each of these could be affected by intoxication.”
Way to get our hopes up and then dash our drunken dreams. Thanks science!

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