ten
o'clock
Then how is one to prepare for the dreadful ordeal ? The distinction is not at all clear between the intelligent review that the faculty recommend and the cramming that they abhor . There is a disconcerting little rhyme on this subject that has been handed down from generation to generation for so long that it has lost most of its form and comeliness ; but the point is still sharp . It is about a girl who followed the faculty 's advice on the subject of cramming , took her exercise as usual , and went to bed each night at ten o'clock , as all good children should . The last stanza still rhymes , thus : `` And so she did not hurry , Nor sit up late to cram , Nor have the blues and worry , But -- she failed in her exam . '' Mary Brooks took pains that all her `` young friends , '' as she called them , should hear of this instructive little poem . `` I really thought , '' said Betty on the first evening of the examination week , `` when that hateful rumor was contradicted , that I should never be scared again , but I am . ''