swot vac

plural swot vacs · alternative swotvac · alternative swot-vac

1. AustraliainformaleducationIn secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.

   She died during the swotvac before my third year exams.

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

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   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.

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

   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.

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

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

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

   Synonyms: dead week, reading week, revision week