Exam

I am DONE! Finished all my exams for this semester and now it's just waiting for the results.

So now I am relaxing a little bit and get organised for my break (applying for jobs in January and internships)

Yay, I have one more exam left and I am done for this semester. Yesterday I had International Economics and it was not easy. We had to define and explain 8 out of 14 terms and answer 3 essay questions!

• NAFTA
• WTO
• the golden square (Interest reate, inflation, budget deficit, national debt)
• the 1985 G-5 Plaza Accord
• Clean Float/Dirty Float
• specific tariff
• tequila crisis
• voluntary export restriction
• peg
• Bretton Woods System
• Devaluation/depreciation
• Mortgage Crisis 2007
• quota
• subsidy

Three down today and two more to go.. yay

I started off with Business Finance this morning, continued with Sports/Event Marketing and finished my day with Global marketing. And it doesn't stop yet, I still have International Economics (tomorrow) and Sociology (next Monday) to go.

But now I'm gonna eat something (something real besides cookies and oranges)

one more down, 5 more to go! I am done with marketing research and should know all about sampling plan, questionnaire design process, marketing research process, hypothesis development, why marketing research is needed, how to work with SPSS (Statistical analysis programme), how to present the data...

One exam down, six more to go

I had my Art exam today and consisted of three parts: comparing 6 pairs, completing a painting and comparing it with one another and analysing the style "impressionism" focusing on the business aspect of it, drawing parallels from aspects such as aesthetics, subject matter etc.

 Exams are coming up and it's absolut study time...I have one tomorrow, another one on Friday and next week four in two days! :s and then another one in two weeks... Wish me luck

...shocked, speechless, gobsmacked, helpless (well maybe not as such), but I saw how the Maths pre-calculus (fractions, quadratic functions etc) class works. To define "works", shall I say "organised" instead?

As a result of difficulties in that class, the Dean organised three tutoring sessions, of which I am doing one. I wanted to know, what they are actually doing and luckily (unluckily), they had a test today. And what I saw was... the thing is, I do not want to sound arrogant, superior or none of these things. It just struck me, that there is a serious problem to what students, business students!!!, do with fractions, pluses and minuses, fractions... I am not saying it is their fault, but the teacher is also very helpless.

However, the level of this class seemed to have decreased tremendously as to match the level of the students taking the course. I am not sure how much I can publish here about the methods that I experienced today, let me just tell u that it was an open-book and open-notes exam for which 2 hours were provided and which has a peculiar grading system.

How (except for us tutors trying to teach basic maths) can this be changed?

...shocked, speechless, gobsmacked, helpless (well maybe not as such), but I saw how the Maths pre-calculus (fractions, quadratic functions etc) class works. To define "works", shall I say "organised" instead?

As a result of difficulties in that class, the Dean organised three tutoring sessions, of which I am doing one. I wanted to know, what they are actually doing and luckily (unluckily), they had a test today. And what I saw was... the thing is, I do not want to sound arrogant, superior or none of these things. It just struck me, that there is a serious problem to what students, business students!!!, do with fractions, pluses and minuses, fractions... I am not saying it is their fault, but the teacher is also very helpless.

However, the level of this class seemed to have decreased tremendously as to match the level of the students taking the course. I am not sure how much I can publish here about the methods that I experienced today, let me just tell u that it was an open-book and open-notes exam for which 2 hours were provided and which has a peculiar grading system.

How (except for us tutors trying to teach basic maths) can this be changed?

Sometimes you just feel like this...