Wasn't it just yesterday that I was enjoying my Chritmas holiday weekend with my girls in Genting? Or wasn't it just yesterday I had started with my Investor Relation classes? Or wasn't it just yesterday that I had my first Tax Planning class and hated it?
All the slogging, all the tears, all the hardwork and all the torture culminate in the 4 exams I will soon be sitting for. I have never hated exams as much in my 12 years of schooling as I hate them in university. The time never seems enough, I never feel prepared enough and the atmosphere doesn’t seem conducive enough!
A semester in SMU lasts for 15 weeks. 13 weeks are for lessons with a one week break in week 8 and week 14. Week 15 is exams week. The 1 week break in week 14 is coined the study break as it is before the exams. It is supposed to give students time to concentrate fully on exams. However I think 1 week is just tooo little, especially with professors stubbornly holding tutorial and revision classes in the same week. Where is the time to sit and down and burry myself in books if I am going to be running back and forth SMU and home?! That is the normal state of things during the weeks of classes anyways. That leaves nothing special about week 14 break week.
Also no matter how much earlier I want to start studying for exams, I can’t.
- The syllabus doesn’t get completed before week 13, or week 12 at the earliest.
- There is a rush of project, report and presentation deadlines in week 11, 12 and 13; sometimes even in week 14!
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Making the library my 2nd home, I have stayed in the library latest till 3.30am!
So it all boils down to the week 14 where I have to manage/ attempt to cover my studying for all my exams; 4 for this term.
My exams are as such,
2nd June, 9am: Advanced Audit
3rd June, 2pm: Ethics
5th June, 9am: Tax Planning
6th June, 9am: Advanced Management Accounting
My carrot to survive through the exams is my flight to
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