Any jargon for this?

Too little, too late.

Maybe "hail Mary" or "a "hail Mary pass"

It's an American football term used to describe a last ditch attempt to win the game by making a long forward pass -- a desperate measure at the last minute. Its use goes beyond football though to describe kind of crazy things that people do when they've otherwise run out of time to do something properly.

Americans woud usually say: "some jargon" the same as some water or some air.

That is what Ameican students call it. To cram, as u said.

You might say they were burning the midnite oil preparing for the exam.

You could also say swotting or mugging up. Btw it's not jargon, it's colloquialism. Jargon is specialised language used by people in the same trade.

How about some more fonetic spelling in England ???





David

Good God No! Have some decency.

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