14 May 2026
Why the pack uses finished years
A page from a year that has already ended lets the table argue about the bars without a headline sitting in the room.
The headline is withheld
Each window in the chart pack is labelled with a month and a year, and nothing about what the newspapers said. Students sometimes recognise a stretch. They are asked to keep that recognition out of the first reading.
The point is not ignorance. The point is to see what the bars support before a remembered story fills the margin.
Five lines, then you may remember
The Tuesday of the last week asks for five lines: the path of the bars, the swings you can touch, and what the volume column changed. Memory is allowed only after those five lines are on the page.
People who write the story first usually have to start the five lines again. That restart is part of the evening, and it is not treated as a failure.
You keep the pack
The sheets go home with you. Months later they are useful because you can see your own first marks beside Malai’s pencil.
If a sheet is lost, the academy can reprint that window for a small paper fee listed on the fees page. The pencil reply itself is not recopied.