THUAS ‘Exam Location Reconnaissance Committee’ votes between map and darts or ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ to decide next exam location

MAASTRICHT – With exams happening in 9 weeks time, the THUAS faculty has convened for the annual ‘Exam Location Scouting Convention’, located at ‘Van Helden’s Steel Refinery’ in Maastricht. As students, eagerly, anxiously or fretfully start the 2017-18 academic year, the faculty is in the process of deciding the next exam location.

The University has faced scrutiny in previous years for the unorthodox methods used in locating a suitable place to host exams. Methods such as pointing at the first establishment that appears on a random page of a phonebook and consulting family friends for ‘cool’ ideas have been deemed ‘not feasible’ this year.

This academic year the University is taking a more ‘rudimentary’ approach to deciding exam locations, said a member of the Exam Location Reconnaissance Committee (ELRC) “We’ve taken the student feedback into account, and we’ve really gone back to basics, it’s going to be a great adventure”.

The finalists for the new approach revealed today at the convention were simply a map of Northern America accompanied by darts and a laptop set to the Google search engine choice ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’

“Whatever happens we’re going to make sure the exams are stationed at a local business, terminals, hangars, factories, pizzerias, funeral homes, you name it, we love to support local businesses wherever they are” Said head of the ECL, Edwin van der Berg, he added “We really like bread factories” before commencing voting procedures.

Results as to which approach to be used will be released subsequently.