misc ramblings n' thoughts...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Plain Ol' Ugly... The Good So my first three exams have gone very well. Felt confident going in, even more confident coming out. I think I pulled the averages I wanted/needed, so I'm very happy with that. The Bad Today, I had my fourth exam, and probably my most difficult one: ECO310 - Industrial Organization. This is all the mathematics in calculating monopolies and other microeconomic theories and going in, I was doing well. But there was just so much frickin' material that was to be covered for the exams. I pretty much pulled two very very long almost-all-niters. You know, those nights when you just study until your head hurts and starts to throb, and then your eyelids feel extra-pressurized as if they're going to shut down and never open again. Well, they were those kind of nights. Long painful nights. Did it help? Not one bit. To say it was a brutal exam would be a gross understatement. They asked the most obscure contents from the corners of the text and you literally had to know every page of that 750+ page textbook. They could ask you a sub-note from one of the concepts, or one of the small sub-headings and ask you to write a quarter of the exam on that small concept. They asked for derivations, formulas, formulas to prove formulas, and theories to explain the formulas that proved the formulas. It was probably the only test I've written in my life where I just had no idea what I was doing after the "easy" questions had been answered. The Ugly How to discern between just a "bad" test or an "ugly" test: - after about ten minutes, you realize that you've "finished" the test and there's nothing more that you really know and can do except go back and BS the rest of the answers you didn't complete. - once everyone turns over to look at the test, you see people looking around blankly at each other, as if they've just watched a bad Chucky movie. - you see people doodling on the back/sides of their exam papers 15 minutes in. (note: extra ugly if drawing morbid images as was the case here) - profanity is heard every couple minutes from various test writers. - people start using their calculator to see the minimum mark needed on the exam to pass and then BS accordingly (I need a -5.2% to pass, a 78% to pull my 4.0, so really hope he didn't decide to dock me marks for excess BS) - people start coughing to pretend they have suddenly been infected with SARS and have to immediately leave the exam room. - people start to leave once the 30 minute minimum is up. - people leaving the exam are seen with either tears in their eyes or multiple cigarets in their mouths. Yes, a truly ugly exam. I conclude with just one plea: Bellcurve, I've never asked anything from you before. Never ever. But please, just this once, do your lil magic. Please. posted by jamescl | 9:21 PM
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Thanks to my buddies for adding colour to my otherwise dull life.