Beat the drums
Contributor Hartley Neita writes: "To do well in examinations require "blood, sweat and tears" on the part of students."

My father's bookcase (pt. 2)
Writer Melville Cooke says: "I reminisced on the genesis of my passion for reading, it occurred to me that my outlook on life and whatever moral code I live by have largely been shaped by the novels from my father's bookcase."