Tag: Exams

(This is not to blame anyone, but felt like warning others who do study for semester exams at last-minute, like me…! Expect the unexpected…!)

I don’t normally hate changes, but when they come in the last moments I do feel they suck. This time it’s really true with the changes in the Final Semester Exam timetables at my University.

My final year final semester started in the last week of October 2008 and we were given a draft timetable dated October 18, 2008. It was a one which had all subjects evenly distributed along the one month duration of exams in February 2009. Later “they” decided to make changes to it due to “reasons” and notified the changed timetable to us on January 20. Though it a really crap timetable according to my set of subjects, its ok coz there was another 3 weeks left for last time study planning and exam preparations.

Now they have changed it again, on January 29, but we got to know about that on February 4. I can understand that there might be “reasons for changes”, but I feel this is not the “time” to make changes to timetables, just 5-6 days before the exams. (Yes, it not a big change, yet I’m totally screwed up)

I’d like to quote on of my batch mate saying,

“… I’m wondering if we are gonna go to write for a paper and be told that we will be answering a different paper that day :)”

For those who prepare for exams throughout the semester this aint gonna be a problem, but for those who don’t this is gonna affect big time, and I’m one of those.

Lets Face It…!!!

Level 4 Semester 1 exams are now history and I have already posted my in-time thoughts sometime back in this blog. Now the results have arrived and just though of doing an analysis on what I have thought just after the exams (my Tweets) against the results I’ve got. I’ll say the conclusion in the beginning, thus those who don’t want to read this can skip.

Conclusions:

• My estimations were wrong (less likely)
• Examiners did some mistake (I’d say less likely)
• Read and decide (Recommended)

Analysis:

• Subject: Software Architecture and Design (SAD)
  Tweet: Exams start with “SAD” which was sad…! – View Tweet
  Results: A

• Subject: Computer Security
  Tweet: Exams: Computer Security paper was a cipher. Didn’t get the key to decrypt…. 🙁 – View Tweet
  Results: A

• Subject: Linear Models & Multivariate Statistics
  Tweet: Exams: Linear Models paper was in a different model than expected… Better than others…!! – View Tweet
  Results: A

• Subject: Organizational Behavior & Management
  Tweet: Exams: Management exam was ok… had 1 hour more.. but nothing to write… Tomorrow ToC…!!! – View Tweet
  Results: A

• Subject: Theory of Computing
  Tweet: Exams: Done with ToC…. Paper seemed easy, but answering was hard… 5 Done…. 3 More… – View Tweet
  Results: A-

• Subject: Advanced Database Systems
  Tweet: Exams: Done with ADB, knew what was asked, but not the answers… 🙁 – View Tweet
  Results: A-

• Subject: Compiler Theory
  Tweet: Exams: One more to go…. 🙂 🙁 :X – View Tweet
  Results: A

• Subject: Bioinformatics
  Tweet: Exams: Done!!! Level 4 Semester 1. – View Tweet
  Results: A+

Its another semester that has ended with the last exam today. I was thinking atleast we have a two week vacation, but now it seems have to work on the final year project. So it going to be no big difference.

I was just Tweeting through out the semester exam, and here are some of my ‘real time’ thoughts of the exams. I could see how my mind was changing through out this period, and some crazy thoughts on my exams, papers, and questions.

Its interesting and I feel like this is a ‘way-back machine’ to my thoughts.

• talkout: Exams: Done!!! Level 4 Semester 1.
  about 3 hours ago – View Tweet
  
• talkout: Exams: One more to go…. 🙂 🙁 :X
  1 day ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Today Compiler Theory…!
  1 day ago – View Tweet
• talkout: @senaka seems u r done with exams… 🙂
  2 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Done with ADB, knew what was asked, but not the answers… 🙁
  3 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: ADB sucks big time… I don’t remember a lot which I thought I know… 🙁
  4 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Thought there is less to study in ADB, but seems there is lot more 🙁
  5 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Next Advanced Database; Studying Bioinformatics.
  8 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Done with ToC…. Paper seemed easy, but answering was hard… 5 Done…. 3 More…
  9 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: ToC… ToC… ToC… !!! FA, DFA, NFA, PDA, D-PDA,, TM, Chomsky……. 🙁
  9 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Management exam was ok… had 1 hour more.. but nothing to write… Tomorrow ToC…!!!
  10 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: 5 more to go….!
  13 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Next week Management and ToC ToC ToC (Theory of Computing) … !!
  13 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Linear Models paper was in a different model than expected… Better than others…!!
  15 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Tomorrow “Linear Models and Multivariate Statistics”. Hope at least this would be a better deal… !!
  15 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Computer Security paper was a cipher. Didn’t get the key to decrypt…. 🙁
  16 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: Computer Security – Lost a handout at group studies… Now last minute googling for clues 🙁
  17 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams: 7 more to go… Next Computer Security…!
  17 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams start with “SAD” which was sad…!
  18 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams!!!! Need to check on Pligg (http://www.pligg.com/) after Exams. Might be an option for http://kurungkavi.yeanthiram.com/tamilblogs/
  18 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Tomorrow exams start…! First one is SAD (Software Architecture and Design)
  19 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams from 15th to 3rd….!
  20 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams…Oooo…Exams…. SAD, Security, …
  22 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Exams start next week…. 🙁
  24 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Level 4 Semester 1 ends… exams from 15th…
  28 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Done: System Design Document for Project eID. Next to Come: Bio Informatics, ToC, Compiler Theory, SW Arch…. then…. Exams….!!! 🙁
  28 days ago – View Tweet
• talkout: Done: System design Document for Project eID. Next to come: ToC, Compiler theory, SWArch…. then exams….!!!
  28 days ago – View Tweet

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