Exam Update #15 (or Master, the SECOND)
The more exams I sit or "talk my way through", the more I arrive at the conclusion that exams are neither predictable nor is the grade one receives really showing how well prepared you were for it!
English Linguistics is not my favourite subject, as you might know. Too many technical terms and hardly any room for discussion or interpretation - compared to Literature at least and even in some respect also to History.
I was not really that well prepared:
one, I had this stupid exam on Wednesday which I did not really manage to get out of my head on Thursday, as I was still fuming;
two, I find it hard to study for it, a lot of information and technical terms and hardly any time since my last teaching degree exam to prepare for it;
three, I was afraid of the professor (female), because she has such profound knowledge;
four, I don't like the subject!
However, this was the best exam I ever had - especially atmosphere-wise. The two ladies were really nice, they asked tough questions (give your opinion about this linguistic problem) and even controversial ones, but they remained in good humour, even when I had no clue what they were getting at and started to blabber and to throw random technical terms without any real connection. Still, it was, well, nice. Okay, I have to admit this was also due to the fact that they had examined me 20 min about the only topic (out of three) which I really knew: Language Policies in Ireland - Past to Present.
In the end there were only 10 min left for my other two topics: Morphology and Pragmatics (Speech Act Theory). Good for me, because she had no time to ask really more than just a few definitions and examples.
At least now I made up for the exam on Wednesday - if someone had asked me in advance how the exams would go, I would have told him the results the other way round, as I was a lot more confident in my History exam!
Anyway, the best thing however is, that now I know that the final grade, even with a D in my major (written and oral Literature exams make up one grade for the final calculation) will be better than my Teaching Degree and that is all that I wanted!!!! So, goal achieved, I would say...
:-)
English Linguistics is not my favourite subject, as you might know. Too many technical terms and hardly any room for discussion or interpretation - compared to Literature at least and even in some respect also to History.
I was not really that well prepared:
one, I had this stupid exam on Wednesday which I did not really manage to get out of my head on Thursday, as I was still fuming;
two, I find it hard to study for it, a lot of information and technical terms and hardly any time since my last teaching degree exam to prepare for it;
three, I was afraid of the professor (female), because she has such profound knowledge;
four, I don't like the subject!
However, this was the best exam I ever had - especially atmosphere-wise. The two ladies were really nice, they asked tough questions (give your opinion about this linguistic problem) and even controversial ones, but they remained in good humour, even when I had no clue what they were getting at and started to blabber and to throw random technical terms without any real connection. Still, it was, well, nice. Okay, I have to admit this was also due to the fact that they had examined me 20 min about the only topic (out of three) which I really knew: Language Policies in Ireland - Past to Present.
In the end there were only 10 min left for my other two topics: Morphology and Pragmatics (Speech Act Theory). Good for me, because she had no time to ask really more than just a few definitions and examples.
At least now I made up for the exam on Wednesday - if someone had asked me in advance how the exams would go, I would have told him the results the other way round, as I was a lot more confident in my History exam!
Anyway, the best thing however is, that now I know that the final grade, even with a D in my major (written and oral Literature exams make up one grade for the final calculation) will be better than my Teaching Degree and that is all that I wanted!!!! So, goal achieved, I would say...
:-)
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