M254 - Exams

Well, some while since the last posting! In fact, just after my previous ramblings I sat a 3 -Hour exam for the M254 course (October 11th 2006) and have been waiting until December 15th for the results to be posted. So today is December 14th but the results are now available. I was very confident that I had passed the course but not too sure how well I had fared in the exam. I really needed to achive at least 85% in the exam to get the Distinction that I really wanted, but had figured that a Grade 2 was the more likely outcome. Course work had been fine - a couple of 98% and a couple of 89% gave me a comfortable 94% overall on the marked course work. But the exam - well thats another matter altogether, no notes allowed, no reference sheets, no nothing, just a head full of half-remembered facts. I'm alright recalling concepts, knowing how things work, how things fit together (so to speak), but details and isolated facts present a problem sometimes. And that, I was sure, would be my Achilles Heel in the 3 hour chamber of hell.
I managed to complete all the questions in the given time and actually had 15 minutes spare in which to ponder and prevaricate over some answers I had given. One small flash of inspiration during that period help make a better answer for one of the questions. And that was it.
Finished, complete, consigned to history.