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They’re done, I’m free! Exam time is gone
Check out this post of shortly 2 weeks ago, and compare my pre-exam predictions with my post-exam predictions.

The third post in this mini-series will come around 28 May, when the results are rumoured to be being released. (now I’m not sure how the hell to put Future simple/continuous into passive voice, so the last 3 words of that sentence probably read a little funny to you)
Subject by subject, just like last time. Here we go

• Electrical Technology : I had predicted good things about this paper. Unfortunately, like I expected secretly, there were a bunch of unexpected questions. I still did it quite well, I think. No marks predictions though.
• OOPS through JAVA : This was supposed to be the one in which I was supposed to shine. The problem is that with easy subjects, you get tough questions to trick you into NOT finding them all that easy in the end.
• Switching Theory & Logic Design : It’s a good thing I decided NOT to take my lecturer’s advice all that seriously. I ended up reading more from the textbook than her notes, and it paid off. I’m quite sure  I’dve lost at least 10 marks had I not read the textbook.
• Electro-Magnetic Waves and Transmission Lines : At this point, it was 2 to go, 4 down (emphasis intended), and I felt like never getting up. The paper was horrible. Fingers crossed. No more comments.
• Analog Communications : Remember how I said it was my subject? Well, apparently it was the exam paper-setters’ subject too. They probably had a ball setting that paper, and I had to do all I could to make sure that ball didn’t upset my wickets (if you’re not a cricket fan, this analogy will not make sense to you).
• Control Structures : After 5 exams worth of experience, I was pretty confident I knew what kind of questions to expect from this relatively easy subject. I was wrong. The University paper setters probably have many many more years worth of experience in how to upset students’ expectations. The problem with this paper was that it was easy… there were very few numerical problems, which is quite unexpected, and all the questions had very long answers. (To those of you who don’t understand the importance of writing long answers : the university is famous for students’ superstition that the more you write, and the more answer booklets you take, the more marks you get… hmm…)

Well, there you go.

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