Quarter 2 - Week of Exams

The one thing I like about the exams at IIMB is that they want to test your concepts and not how much you mugged. There's no chance to hold in as much as you can, and vomit it all out on the paper... and then conveniently forget it.

The questions all looked simple, but they tested all your fundamentals very well. Makes you sit and ask yourself questions in the exam hall that you probably didnt ask earlier. Depending on what you've read and how strong your basics are, you either do really well in the exam, or... well, you just drift along.

Macro Economics was a fun paper with a few multiple choice questions and a set of descriptive ones later.

Managing Organizations was in a completely Multiple Choice Questions format. We must have finished it within an hour or so... then we just had to sit and read for the QM1 (Quantitative Methods 1) exam for that afternoon.

QM1 - Biz Stats was interesting as we had a very good mix of MCQs and descriptive problems. Was really nice to actually mix all our basics and extract fundas out of it.

I just hope my basics are right. The marks dont matter to us, we aren't anyway going to get placed at the end. That's either a good thing or a bad thing, based on your outlook. To me, it's the basics that matter... because that means tomorrow I wont screw up someone else's life just because my formula was right, but for the wrong problem altogether. And I think that's important. :)