Just bottled the last exam this year. It’s really, really embarrassing, but I feel I totally let myself down. First I could not find the notes or had lost some of the handouts. Then I just could not remember who the academics were who kind of opposed each other for some decades with their research. However, I remembered a bit of the practical relevant outcomes, but all the theory stuff just didn’t make it into the exam. Comparing the stuff I wrote with the notes, there is just too much of a discrepancy… whilst I got the gist of the commentating discussion we had a bit as students, the other stuff I just forgot. And the mean thing is I have nobody to blame but myself. It wasn’t even sunny the last weeks, so I could have blamed it on work in the allotment or so. No, I just did not learn it. Not sure how other people learn, but I really need to verbally discuss stuff with other students to get it into my head.
Apparantly other people use mind-maps… should try it out sometimes. Though the ethical questions are quite interesting I just refuse to learn all this theoretical, academic stuff without any practical relevancy. Maybe I would have done better, if I would not have known that the course actually was Philosophy, that really put me of, its current name is “Contemporary Issues” , but then, in the articles to write as homework, I always tried to keep it very practical and orientated to solve difficultues and possible solutions, which seems to be another big mistake in the whole philosophical way of thinking.
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Comment by Ali McNab on 2006-06-04 16:15:51 +0100
Hi Ulla, this is all a bt posh isn’t it? How do you set one of these things up.I forgot about an exam this year – I mean what kind of numpty does that? i suppose I should find out what the hell is going on about it. So don’t worry about you exam, at least you turned up!
Cheers
Ali