Obligatory Exam Rant

Bloody exams, aghhhh
Gotta whine and moan though, this was the 2nd to last exams I am EVER going to have, at uni.

In our university, we usually get 1 whole week before examsto study, called "study break". I spent couple of days of it writing my research project and then mucked around for another couple of days, barely managing to do 3-4 days of preparations...typical

Bioprocess Engineering:
First exam, and the easiest. I only needed 80% to ace the subject (since the exam was 25%) but I don't think I even did that. It was really awful to get that sterilization question which was the ONLY area I didn't cover very extensively, I read the notes and was like "oh I need to sit down and do this then ask the lecturer as I don't get it" but I forgot to do that. Teaches me a lesson for slacking and not starting to study properly until the very last day.

Process Economics:
Awful, awful, awful. I still can't believe how terrible the exam was. It wasn't hard, just the questions were not expected at all... I worked my ass out trying to understand those dumb economic terms and evaluation methods, and we ended up getting a question to actually do the actual calculations which I had no idea on. 3 out of the 4 exam questions were not very good for me so the worse-case-scenario mark I estimated is going to be horrid. Luckily everyone found the exam hard so it'll probably get scaled (funny incident in the exam when this classmate started crossing out her answers causing soo much noise due to frustration/anger, it looked like she was crossing out all her working, didn't even dare to ask her how did she find the exam haha)

Process Control:
Agh the topic I like to be good at. Noone expected a hard exam, open the exam and go through it "sweet, 2nd order question, cascase question, stability question.. awesomeeee" but as I started the first question you get this bloody stupid detailed model derivation that I was telling people is definitely not going to be in the exam(since its process modelling NOT control dammit agh). I believe the first question in an exam determines how well you do as it gives you confidence, the first question that I started doin annoyed me so much that it made me unsure about everything else. Aggggghhhhhh worse-case-scenario is much much lower than the typical worse-case-scenario marks I calculate... not good.

Exams over though, 3 weeks of semi-holidays (design project isn't going to be done by itself)... Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy :D