Exams in early 2010

As a new student in TU Berlin, the final exam is really a stuff that make me nervous.

Firstly the examination system for Master student in TUB is confusing this semester as all the rules are new, and the department of examination and the professors are not so well communicated, which cause quite a lot of misunderstanding for the exams.  So I have to run several times between the department of examination, so called ‘Prüfungsamt’, and different Professors. The most common situation is the Prüfungsamt say ‘No idea, but we have the rule.’ to nearly all the things and the Professors say ‘They are definitely wrong. ‘, wow, then what should I suppose to do? But OK, I can accept that, because all we know the Paperwork is always working in this way.

And then is the details of the exams themselves, which are worthwhile to applaud for. The forms of the exams are mostly based on the professors’ interests in three types: written exam, oral exam and others. Until now I have just take part in two exams, which are all written exam with decided date. As those two exams are from the same department of our TUB, the total points are the same – 33 Points. The questions cover almost all the topics in the lesson but in the form of some new applications, which make the works not so boring as some exams I took part in. But I have to admit that it is no so easy to get all the points while you must consider both the main frame of the topic and some details of the application in the limited time (90 min.).

A interesting situation is that I’m the only student in one course, so basically it is real one-one course and even the exams. And I’ll take it as oral exam, which will be my first experience in this form of exam in science’s topic. Neutrally I am from a few days before a bit nervous about this, but as the exam are more considering the application of the wavelet technology, which takes a long time in first part of the course and I think I have already got the main idea and basic details. And the reason I choose this course is on the application things and the passed experiences of one of my not so good project is also on this fields. (go on) Finally I took the exam of this course with a two hour long oral exam, which takes usually only 30 minutes. But I have to commit that the exam is more like a additional lessen rather than a exam itself, the teacher give me a lot of different views that I don’t even think in that direction, such like how can people make the derivation of Zero-tree Methods using wavelet transform.

I have still two oral exams in this semester and one more written exam in the end of next semester. So, just fighting!