Barely after a week my exams have finished, one of the results is out: System Modelling and Simulation. This was one of the courses that I felt I did badly, probably the worst exam I had for this semester.
This morning, I was quite suprised to see I got a pass, 62 overall. This exam was on the 1st July, and the results are published so quick. Not too bad I guess, considering I almost didn’t do 2/5 of the exam questions. I guess its pretty much helped by my coursework mark. Also, the lecturer David is a very nice chap.
Then after a while, I got an sms from a mate doing the same course telling me the result is already out. He hasn’t check his yet.
He’s so anxious that before he checks his result, he’s already told me. I know 62 is quite embarassed, well I did reply to him with my result. Guess what, he got 80, a HD. Not being bitter here, but he said that he didn’t expect this much as well as he just copied the solutions of similar questions in the exam.
I remember David said in the beginning of the semester this simulation course is an easy-scoring course, everyone should be getting a HD. This is basically a Math course with a group project of simulation during computer software. Because of that, I thought the exam wouldn’t be too hard so I didn’t study much for this course, only until a day or 2 before the exam. Then I found out it’s impossible to cover all the questions the night before, so I focused on just 2 questions hoping if I can get them right I can pass this course.
After the exam, I was terrified as I didn’t know how to do some questions at all. I was just hoping I can get 50-pass. Another friend Xiaobai didn’t tell me that for 1 question about the confidence level part, we can just copy from the notes from another course as it was taught before. I was quite pissed about this. He only said that after the exam. Fuck, with that question answered I could have got a credit at least, or even a distinction.
Nonetheless, I feel relieved as I expected to get a lot worse than this. But now, I started to worry about Heat Transfer and Combustion courses. These two caused a lot of headache too. Have to wait another week until the School publish all the Mech Eng results.
And…going to Sydney on Wednesday, hope I can really enjoy over there.
