It's the multiple choice aspect of this year's final exams at British universities that is stressing out students.
Will their papers be:
a) set as normal but not marked?
b) cancelled at the last minute?
c) postponed - possibly to the summer?
d) devalued altogether by the chaos of the dispute?
e) all of the above?
It's a hellish prospect for students and only now are their voices beginning to be heard in the lecturers' pay dispute.
How do you plan your revision if you don't know when or if the exams will be? How do you produce your best if you have had no feedback on your work for months?
Some have sympathy with the lecturers who are inflicting the pain, others are losing patience with a group of people who have rejected the biggest public sector pay offer of the year, on top of big pay increases already in the system under the national pay framework.
The Association of University Teachers conference heard warnings that this year's degrees could be devalued. It's a risk they are prepared to take with their students' careers.
Some students blame the university bosses for failing to come up with a better offer. Vice-chancellors have had big increases - why not their staff?
Student unions around the country have given their views of the situation. Do they reflect your experience of what is really happening on the ground?
