Open Book Exam May 6, 2008
Posted by wilson2002 in Exam, HKU.3 comments
Have you taken an open book exam before? In this type of examination, candidates are allowed to bring in course materials into the exam hall and use them to answer the questions.
The most important thing is the text book. It is a must even though the condition is probably worst than salted-fish.
The next thing is lecture slides. They are important even though the contents are similar to the text book
Next is homework sets
In case you are unsure of your solutions, then the following are important
From this examination, I realized that it is actually quite cumbersome to do the exam with so many stuffs on the table. In fact, I did not have time to look at the homework sets and their solutions. The table is just not big enough and most of the time during the exam, pressure conquers everything.
This examw as held in the Main Hall (Loke Yew Hall). It can accommodate about 200 students but there are only 11 people taking this paper. What they did was put in students from other courses into the exam venue.
The paper is OK considering the result is either pass or fail only. It really took a lot of pressure off me. Besides the purpose of the course is to introduce new ideas to graduate students. The subject itself is quite controversial because it talks mainly about the inconsistency of current Mathematics. To put it simply, anything that has to do with infinity is INCORRECT! However the instructors’ ideas have not been accepted by the community but IF they do accept the fact that MATHEMATICS IS INCONSISTENT, then I reckon it could change the way we learn Maths.
Anyway the subject is very interesting. I learned a lot from this course. In fact I could sense that current Mathematics is FLAWED!!!!
One of my friends from the Law Faculty told me that he sat for ‘take-home exams’ before. The first time he was given THREE freaking days to do the exam AT HOME! He told me it was HELL LOL. It sounds pretty interesting. I’m looking forward to sit for this type of examination, if I have the opportunity..hehehe…HELL could be an interesting place you know…..
