People told me that I would probably do better in my exams than I thought I would. After my second (of seven) exams this morning, I'm beginning to think they were right. I've already had the two I was most worried about, and I think I did ok. When I had attempted past papers at home, I had been pretty stumped. The papers did not just highlight some areas where my knowledge was lacking, the whole glorious fraud of my student career seemed brilliantly illuminated.
Perhaps these papers were harder than those of the last couple of days, perhaps the last minute cramming I did managed to fill the voids. But I suspect a large factor was my sheer inability to muster any kind of excitement about doing the mock exams, whereas the real things carry some power to wake me up and shine light into the dark corners of my knowledge.
2 comments:
I don't think the past papers were totally in line with our syllabus for one, and secondly I got the impression the databases papers was heavily dumbed down compared to previous years. For example, the questions allowed for more descriptive answers, normalization up to 3NF and joke SQL queries make me think they're going easier on us. . . maybe this is to compensate for all the exams packed together?
no, i think it's more to do with US being dumbed down ;)
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