what an eventful week of exams!
yeah, eventful. i mean really eventful. exams aren't really eventful. you go into the exam hall, you sit, you write, you finish, you leave. well well, not this year though.
1. no seat allocation
i went to great hall to find no seat allocated for me. i'm part of eee. but i wasn't given a slot. no chua in the list. i registered right? or did i not? ... yeah! i did. bastards. the examiners made some mistake which they did not bother apologising for. they did bring me to a different examination area to have my paper. but imagine the panic i had when i was left wondering whether i studied for nothing.
2. no calculators.
no calculators to calculate the square of (b-a)/3.2. yeah we are imperial students, but we're uni students too. we don't know how to divide by 3.2 anymore, let alone square it. so we waited for close to half an hours for the examiners to bring us the promised calculators.
well, didn't plan on bitching but did anyway. paper was for "project management" and many of us have reiterated that the lecturer possessed no project management skills at all. lack of organisation and preparation for the examination. can't believe she forgot to "ident" calculators.
3. appeal
now, emails are flying everywhere, asking for people to sign a petition to appeal for the exam paper to be "moderated" because of a misunderstood word.
"I know of several people, including myself who were caught out by this and ended up drawing the network the wrong way round, rendering all subsequent answers useless. That's 30 marks lost due to a single word!" -extract from email
i was almost one of the "caught out" ones, but i realised my mistake and corrected it when i checked the paper. it's really a careless mistake. i would be gutted to lose the 30 marks. i sympathise with those who misread, but it's quite clear what the lecturer wanted.
anyway, i can say that since i corrected my answers.
project management bad. asp was alright. moderation should help me get a good grade i hope. econs was bad, considering how much i like the course.
and, i'm too tired and drained to talk in detail about the other exams. and you should be bored by now...
te amo suzi.
1. no seat allocation
i went to great hall to find no seat allocated for me. i'm part of eee. but i wasn't given a slot. no chua in the list. i registered right? or did i not? ... yeah! i did. bastards. the examiners made some mistake which they did not bother apologising for. they did bring me to a different examination area to have my paper. but imagine the panic i had when i was left wondering whether i studied for nothing.
2. no calculators.
no calculators to calculate the square of (b-a)/3.2. yeah we are imperial students, but we're uni students too. we don't know how to divide by 3.2 anymore, let alone square it. so we waited for close to half an hours for the examiners to bring us the promised calculators.
well, didn't plan on bitching but did anyway. paper was for "project management" and many of us have reiterated that the lecturer possessed no project management skills at all. lack of organisation and preparation for the examination. can't believe she forgot to "ident" calculators.
3. appeal
now, emails are flying everywhere, asking for people to sign a petition to appeal for the exam paper to be "moderated" because of a misunderstood word.
"I know of several people, including myself who were caught out by this and ended up drawing the network the wrong way round, rendering all subsequent answers useless. That's 30 marks lost due to a single word!" -extract from email
i was almost one of the "caught out" ones, but i realised my mistake and corrected it when i checked the paper. it's really a careless mistake. i would be gutted to lose the 30 marks. i sympathise with those who misread, but it's quite clear what the lecturer wanted.
anyway, i can say that since i corrected my answers.
project management bad. asp was alright. moderation should help me get a good grade i hope. econs was bad, considering how much i like the course.
and, i'm too tired and drained to talk in detail about the other exams. and you should be bored by now...
te amo suzi.
posted by wc at 7:20 PM
2 Comments:
woah... did u have enough time to finish ur PM? I didn't have the time to finish all the required questions.... 1.5 hrs was too short then!
yeah. managed to finish, but no time to check. we have 2 hours now to answer 2 structured questions and 25 mcqs.
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