Foreign Perspectives

This morning saw the final S204 exam as it’s being replaced by S294 from next year plus another course a year or two later.

As usual the two short answer questions were all over the place requiring quite a comprehensive knowledge of the course contents to be able to fully answer 12 from the 18 on offer. Individually each of them seemed relatively easy but this being the section of the exam that required you to show you’d a good overall grasp of the course, you needed pretty detailed knowledge for a fair number of them. So, yes, they were easy but only if you had put an awful lot of time into learning the course content.

The three data handling questions didn’t require a great deal of specific biological knowledge and seemed fairly easy to do. That said, a broad knowledge of the course content obviously helped here.

I suspect that some people may have come unstuck on the essay questions. Some were fairly broad but there seemed to be a lot of detail required for some of them too.

Overall, on my pessimistic estimate I seem to be on a fairly safe pass so not a bad exam in the end.