First exam paper in almost 4 years!

Well today is the first time I am taking (academically-enriching *vomits*) school exams since 2007 and boy what a way to kick off my Uni exams!

First paper: Prices & Markets.

Boy what a gang-banger, literally. It is already my "weakest" of the 4 modules I am taking this semester (the others are Employment Relations, History of Management Thought & Buyer Behavior [major]) and I had a lot of trouble revising it, truth be told. Though half of it was due to my heart really being not in it. 

So it is such an ominous omen to reach the exam hall, find my seat and at that point, for some reason I decided to test my calculator. What an intuition. The batteries of my calculator chose at that very moment 5 minutes before the commencement of my ECONOMICS paper to die. I lent the one Ian lent me to Janice. Funny enough, intuition also urged me to bring a 3rd much lousier calculator. Well better than no calculator I guess. 

Then came the next shocker... Our lecturer had informed us in class that the paper consists of 7 questions, of which you just have to choose 4. Plus all the past year papers had the same format of choosing 4 out of 7 questions. So we all had our tactics as to how to score for this exam... BUT NOOOOOOOO... they decided to change the format without telling us (Stoopid SIM-RMIT). Instead the cover page now read, "YOU MUST ANSWER ALL 4 QUESTIONS"! WTFFF! 

So whilst doing the paper, I lost track of time (partly cause I was stuck with the 3rd question which was difficult to me) and I only had 20 minutes left to complete the 4th question. At that point I also used up my whole answer booklet so I raised my hand to get a new booklet. There were no invigilators around. Of the MANY MANY rows in the Grand Hall at SIM to which an invigilator was assigned to be in-charge of one row... none of the invigilators saw me raising my bloody hand frantically in the middle of the exam hall for 10 BLOODY MINUTES! That totally wasted my time. 

To make matters worst, question 4 is the ultimate KILLER-MURDEROUS question which we all believe was set just for those who would get a HD (High Distinction) for this subject. Seriously. Most of us have no idea how to tackle that damn question.

I didn't finish my paper and I am so totally going to flunk it.

Fortunately I am one of those who can shove it to the back of my mind and look forward to the next 3 papers coming up! Next one, SUPER boring Employment Relations paper at 1000 am on Wednesday!

And as you can see how "fantastic" my concentration level is... I am blogging instead of studying.