Man tell me about it, the educational system is so bad... I have spent 4 years at University and half of it a can't even remember because you're taught to just cram for exams.

There definitely needs to be a shake up, I don't particularly like large portions of coursework either as I think it's arguably too easy and University should force you to excel and try to be the best of the best, but the crammed exam culture certainly isn't perfect either.

Are your exams split between the year? At my University they were tempted to introduce January exams alongside summer ones too, but they didn't in the end.

I think that'd potentially help retention, along with maybe throwing in 20% of previous content into new exams, to ensure you still make sure you know it all going forward and can't just pass it and forget.