Foreign Perspectives

For a change, I had quite a decent revision plan worked out for this exam. That’s largely thanks to the advice sent out by the course team a month or two before the exam which enabled quite well targeted revision. That in turn made for a more comfortable exam than it would have been otherwise.

Of course, that’s not to say that the revision was perfect as several of the short questions showed up limitations in this revision strategy in that I’d not covered their topics in sufficient detail to answer them nearly as well as I’d have liked to. Still, overall I think I did quite well on the exam and amazingly well considering that a year ago I’d not done any biology at all.

The problem with an exam is that there’s quite a long period working up to it both in terms of the course time and the more intense revision period just prior to the exam. That leaves me at least all hyped up and it was two full days after the exam before I’d gotten back to normal and back into working on the courses that are still running on for me.

Which has me wondering how long it’ll take me to wind down from the S204 + S320 combo exam in October next year. Still, at least after their exams I’ll have several months of a break.