swot vacとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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From swot +‎ vac (“vacation”).

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swot vac (複数形 swot vacs)

1. (Australia, education, informal) In secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.

   Synonyms: (North America, スラング) dead week, (North America) reading week, (通例) revision week

   • 1968, John Burville Biggs, Information and human learning, Cassell Australia:

     This is clearly what happens in the "swot-vac" phenomenon: the student rote-learns his material for just long enough to see the exam through.

   • 2003, Frank William Coaldrake, Maida Coaldrake & William Howard Coaldrake, Japan from war to peace: the Coaldrake records 1939-1956, Routledge, page 234:

     In the old days it was probably quite a sound alternative to the "swot-vac" spent in cold towels and black coffee or benzedrine as done in Australia.

   • 2004, Joanne Horniman, Secret Scribbled Notebooks, Allen & Unwin, page 28:

     I reminded her that it was the September holidays, and after that I was off on swot vac until the exams started.

   • 2006, Vaughan Nikitin, Wurruk: Reflections in Black and White, page 249:

     She died during the swotvac before my third year exams.