The mid terms are over !!!! But a mail in my inbox just told me " still so much ahead !!!". Yes, We got a mail from one of our profs on "pre-reading" for the next class. The list contained "just" two chapters and a case study - solution of the case study to "analyze".
This time the mid terms are "theory" oriented. So much to write and no one knows whats the correct answer. This is the biggest problem with theory questions. We should think from professor's prospective and write the answers. In order to think from Prof's prospective, we need to listen in the classes and thats the most "toughest" job in this world. The conclusion is that "we feel that we have written the answers so accurately and we end up getting not even half the marks".
This time the exams are neither easy nor difficult.
Financial mgmt paper was full of assumptions. I need to mention about Raghu. One of the questions were supposed to answer using a method and it is specifically given in the question paper. Raghu doesnt know how to solve using that method and so he made a wild assumption. He answered the question "assuming a different method which he knows !!!". Let us see how prof evaluates him. I get two zeros in the quizzes and this time I should cross atleast 10 in this mid term else it would turn out to be a pressure cooker situation in the final exam.
Marketing exam was full of fun. The questions were practical. I really loved it. There was a question about a student run shop in the campus - "Click n Pick". The question was about challenges and about distribution of goods. It was a very good question. But I could not answer much. By the click n pick is some thing where students order the goods and goods are delivered at door step at an extra price.
The paper on International business environment was too lengthy. Around seven questions need to be answered in two hours. I did a blunder in picking up the questions. I answered a question that I dont know and it carries 20 marks. But this is the subject that interests some one who wants to know about WTO blah blah.
Supply chain mgmt is like a cake walk for us. Prof is "mr.cool". He never puts us under any pressure and he proved it once again. Though the paper was lengthy, he set it in such a way that people will surely get atleast half the marks. I double like his paper. I did not answer all the questions, but I liked the paper.
Human resource mgmt paper was the easiest of all. There was an interesting question on conducting the CAT interviews. Prof asked us a question on the blunders the interviewer commits and how to avoid them during CAT interviews 2011. Prof always takes these kind of inputs from us and most of the time she says "he is gonna consider them".
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On the top of the question paper there was a series of pictures about a guy answering the question paper.
The summary was like this -
The question says "explain newton's third law in your own words ".
Student thinks for a while and starts answering "afdjsl slfjlasjdf alfjdsljfla ajfldjsfjas afda "
The student says " I like loopholes".
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I hope u understand what I am trying to convey !!!!
The final exam was on mgmt information system. I really loved this paper. It was full of information technology application in business and i hardly prepared for the exam. Some how I have a strong feeling that I can answer for any type of question as the paper is based on IT. The paper was not difficult.
Thats the end of first mid terms of this year....
