First examination in ISB..
Huh! What a relief…The Statistics Mid-term is finally over. The question paper was very straight-forward with occasional twists..Easy paper if you have practiced well and absorbed the concepts well…Don’t ask how I fared 
My problem seems to be not paying enough attention to the questions/keywords..(the ones we used to call as ‘careless’ mistakes)..Time to wakeup and catch the ‘exam-taking’ mood..Thankfully this is the first of examinations 
My ’sleep-payable’ (Number of hours of sleep lagging) is increasing exponentially. I am feeling feverish for couple of days…so will go and hit the bed now…
After finishing the exams, I thought I will not discuss the answers…I came out the exam hall 5 minutes before the deadline. Walked through the Corridor. Was stopped by couple of friends and had to listen to their conversation and realized that one of my answers is wrong. So decided to break away, again was stopped by another group of people and listened to another conversation and realized that another of my answer is wrong…At this rate all my answers could become wrong ..So broke away from the group and took my lunch and came back quickly to my room…
Thank god there is a protection-mechanism from peer pressure in the way of “Grade non-disclosure policy”…
The examination was objective type. 30 questions, 2 hours. Cheat sheet allowed (A single A4 size paper where you can write anything and everything you want.). Throughout my exam, I didn’t even look at my cheat sheet…Not sure about others..
Another 2 weeks, and we have 4 end-term examinations!! 2 exams per day…
Well, there is no respite after the mid-term. We have enough work for the weekend. An economics assignment. A marketing group case study. A marketing individual case reading. Financial Accounting Case study. Readings for the monday class…List never ends and the cooling off period is not in the near horizon!
I will sleep to the maximum possible today and play some sports. Didn’t play ( or couldn’t play) any sports for past 4 days…
Hey Bharani… what answer did you get for Q 10. Just kidding buddy. Sleep well.. See you tomorrow.
Comment by Karthik — May 20, 2005, Friday @ 7:06 pm
BD….Next time you go to play..give me a call.. I will join you
Comment by Karthik — May 20, 2005, Friday @ 7:10 pm
BD…looks like there is a bug in the software….
Comment by Anonymous — May 20, 2005, Friday @ 7:11 pm
Regarding the non-grade disclosure policy, how does it work? Thanks.
Comment by Harish — May 20, 2005, Friday @ 8:17 pm
I also fared poorly in the examination
. I didn’t have to wait so long to find out 2 of my answers were wrong. One guy was discussing about some concept and i just listened to it. Two minutes into it I knew a couple of answers of mine were wrong. Didn’t wait any longer. 
Comment by Karthik Ramachandran — May 20, 2005, Friday @ 10:58 pm
I have company man .. Did okay in stats ( the okay is relative to imagining how worse it could have been and how bad my prep was).
hope you were there at yogesh gupta’s talk. It gave some practical gyaan ( or should i say re-inforced some practical gyaan ). Wonder if any one has done multiple regression of svp’s and c*o of companies .. could give us the ideas of the skills required ( stats season .. it seems to be cool in the campus to use statistics to explain everything under the sun).
rgds
chandra
Comment by Kataclysmic — May 21, 2005, Saturday @ 7:03 am