offers. But the thread really making people click was ‘the official Kit Kat Chunky battle’. In case you missed this key event (how could you have done?) Nestle put out four limited edition Chunkys, with the biggest seller winning the right to stay on sale permanently. Orange, white, peanut butter and double choc flavours did battle, with peanut butter eventually coming out on top - both in TSR’s poll and with the public at large.
March In March, singer and X Factor judge Tulisa hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons –
results day thread for those receiving their results in March.
April
School students looking for some extra money over Easter gave a big boost to the ‘jobs for 15 year olds’ thread, while the disruption of the Boat Race by a protestor going for a dip stirred up a healthy debate. But the most-clicked by far was the immense and ever-popular ‘50 interview questions and answers’ thread.
May With exam season kicking off in May, plenty of discussions started popping up after exams with students dissecting the papers they had just sat. Among newsworthy events of the month, Chelsea’s remarkable victory in the Champions League Final led to a particularly busy discussion.
June
By June, exams were in full swing and post- exam discussions dominated - along with a thread about the London bus driver strike, with TSR members checking in to see if they could get to their exams on time.
Away from exams, the nation came to a standstill for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with those for and against battling it out in the news and current affairs forum.
July
with her rather personal home movie getting tongues wagging on the forums.
The Student Room joined the whole country in wishing Fabrice Muamba well after the former Bolton player’s life-threatening collapse midway through a Premier League football match. However, the biggest thread of the month by far was the AS/A Level
Sporting threads dominated July on The Student Room. The Olympics came to the UK, with a dedicated forum on TSR buzzing with chat among people rediscovering the joy of competitive swimming, cycling and Greco-Roman wrestling for the first time in four years.
Spain’s victory at Euro 2012 and Andy Murray’s defeat at Wimbledon continued the sporting chat. But there was shocking news as well. Many people came to the site
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