Had my second paper today and it's on the Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry course. Not too bad I guess but I didn't manage to solve a question because I didn't bother to memorize some facts. The style of the exam was pretty weird - 18 questions in 3 hours; all compulsory questions. It's tiring and challenging in a way and I went for toilet break again (The first time was last Friday's Advanced Organic exam) as my limit is a 2 hours paper I guess.
Something pretty amusing happened during the exam today. 10mins after the start of the exam, Prof. Leung wrote something on the white board which goes something like "Check paper on 221205 and Grades will be out on 241205". I was kinda shock by that because I didn't know that the system here is so liberal that students are allowed to check their marked scripts and know their results directly from the profs. Hmm maybe that's something that NUS should follow. Anyway the amusing part was that Prof Leung came over and asked me when will I be returning to Singapore and chit-chatted with me for a while! Later on, he returned again saying that I can checked my scripts earlier. After the exam, he announced that exchange students can check their scripts this Wed! Hmm will be quite stress then as I think the Advanced Organic result will be out on Wednesday as well.
I went to yum cha with Alice and Ah Seng (with his friend) after the exam; we played table tennis after that! During dinner time, Emily and I both agreed that taking exams here seemed pretty relaxed.
Oh yah, Alice and I went to look for Prof. Wu to see if he has marked our scripts. :p He actually took it out and said he hasn't mark it yet and he looked through our scripts to see if we have committed any serious mistakes. True enough, I have made some silly mistakes and Alice's one is nearly flawless. Following that, he talked about wanting to have a better organized notes for Advanced Organic Chemistry and both of us offered to help him. I think it'll be great fun coming out with a mini book for this course. At the same time, we can learn more; over here, I can really experience that there are many more things beyond examinations. I seriously feel that this exchange to HK has really made me jump out of my tiny little comfort zone.
Something pretty amusing happened during the exam today. 10mins after the start of the exam, Prof. Leung wrote something on the white board which goes something like "Check paper on 221205 and Grades will be out on 241205". I was kinda shock by that because I didn't know that the system here is so liberal that students are allowed to check their marked scripts and know their results directly from the profs. Hmm maybe that's something that NUS should follow. Anyway the amusing part was that Prof Leung came over and asked me when will I be returning to Singapore and chit-chatted with me for a while! Later on, he returned again saying that I can checked my scripts earlier. After the exam, he announced that exchange students can check their scripts this Wed! Hmm will be quite stress then as I think the Advanced Organic result will be out on Wednesday as well.
I went to yum cha with Alice and Ah Seng (with his friend) after the exam; we played table tennis after that! During dinner time, Emily and I both agreed that taking exams here seemed pretty relaxed.
Oh yah, Alice and I went to look for Prof. Wu to see if he has marked our scripts. :p He actually took it out and said he hasn't mark it yet and he looked through our scripts to see if we have committed any serious mistakes. True enough, I have made some silly mistakes and Alice's one is nearly flawless. Following that, he talked about wanting to have a better organized notes for Advanced Organic Chemistry and both of us offered to help him. I think it'll be great fun coming out with a mini book for this course. At the same time, we can learn more; over here, I can really experience that there are many more things beyond examinations. I seriously feel that this exchange to HK has really made me jump out of my tiny little comfort zone.
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