How time flies so fast? It is the ‘time’ of the semester, EXAM! I encounter quite different experiences here, at Deakin.

Firstly, the ‘study week’ was just for three (3) days! What do you think? Haha. Normally, this so called study week is the time when the student start to ‘study’ the whole chapters of the subject, not ‘revise’.

Secondly, there’s slightly different with the exam timing. How?

Okay, I just done my first exam, so my sharing basically only about my first paper, which is Human Social Behaviour. Oh! This is online subject. Which mean, I did not attend class for this subject but I have to independently study via the online lecture (read: video) which made earlier.

Back to the topic. Timing.

Normally, when the exam duration is 2 hours, once they say ‘you can start now’, so you’ll grab your pencil/pen start to answer the questions. However, such was different when there was ‘reading time’. Within 2 hours, 15 minutes allocated for reading time in which we CAN NOT even hold our pencil/pen, JUST READ the questions! You CAN NOT even fill in the form. You know, the details, name, id.. Really like just go through all of the questions. After 15 minutes of reading time had passed, they read the instructions for about 2 minutes, how to fill in the form whatsoever, THEN ONLY we can grab our pencil/pen and started to answer the question.

I find it weird.

So for Human Social Behavior exam consist of 120 multiple questions (A,B,C,D) and had to be answered within 1 hour 43 minutes out of total 2 hours. Lol. But for me, it went good, Alhamdulillah. it’s not that I’m complaining. But just sharing my difference experience. Because from my experience, if it were uni in Malaysia, when students just got in to the exam hall, some of them had already started to fill in the form (I did as well), and even few tried to answer the questions even they’re been told not to do so!

Okay, gotta ‘study’ for the next exam. catch up later!