Ready or not, stressed or not , final exams remain a fact of life . But are disappointing results really the death knell for career success ? And are exams the best way of testing achievement anyway ? Could we not just abolish them and chill out ? OECD education analyst Eric Charbonnier , (educationdechifree.blog.lemonde.fr) notes that many countries copied the French “baccalaureate” model , created by Napoleon in 1808 , by introducing final exams at the end of the secondary cycle …