Awaiting the Results

Greetings,

I have officially finished Y2S1, having recently completed the final exams. I will briefly talk about them below:

LSM1301:
This being the first exam (on the week of the study week) was certainly one of the more stressful ones because I personally feel the bell curve will be absurdly steep. It was a bring-your-own-laptop exam, where the student will literally bring his own laptop to take the test via a lock-down browser which disables standard laptop usage. While the idea seems rather novel (at least in my opinion), I did not particularly enjoy the mismatch between expectations and the reality of the examinations. We were told we can access our own notes during the test, turns out you first had to upload the files (in which they did impose a file size limit), then download them again during the test. Aside from that the test itself was smooth, no hiccups.
The cohort was split into two to take the exam... which meant those that took the exam first had to be quarantined for a certain duration after their exam. I, unfortunately, was part of that lot. Well, what's done is done. I think I should have done decently for this test.

ACC2002:
I spent a number of hours on the first half syllabus, trying to correct where I went wrong in the mid terms. However, whole topics from the first half did not even appear in the exam, instead quite a sizable number of qualitative questions from the second half appeared.
In general, I felt much better after this test than accounting last semester. No major inability to balance equations.

FIN2004:
Generally manageable paper. Tough and tricky, but given careful consideration and time management, the paper is doable, yet should be able to sieve out the different calibers of students pretty well.

DSC2008:
Much of the hoo-ha prior to the paper was honestly for nothing. True that I haven't had the faintest idea how the exam format was going to be like, yet the questions themselves were doable. On the day itself I found out I had a past year paper to look at, so I spent some time to complete it, but I think it was really not as difficult as I anticipated it to be. We needed to be able to read and interpret SAS outputs that were given to us and answer some basic questions like which test to use. There were more questions, but I cannot remember them atm.

All in all this sem's exams were, in my opinion, my best prepared and best performed one thus far. While it will still be a while before the results are released, I am slightly more relieved than previous semesters, though the certain fearful anticipation still remains.

Cheers!
RRR