Flipsides

There are good exam days and there are bad exam days and sometimes if you are really lucky, you get both all at once. Today was a rather fine example.

Managerial Accounting was pretty decent and could have been a lot tougher than it was. As it is, it was verrrry straightforward. In relative grading, such papers set the alarm bells ringing. When the grade distribution is narrow and everyone does well, one or two points can make a huge difference and nobody likes that. On the other hand, everyone likes the exam.

Corporate Financial Policy was a nightmare come to life. I can frankly say that I'd have done equally well or badly if I hadn't prepared at all. The advantage, if one can call it that, is that we'd probably have a wide distribution of grades and a high standard deviation. It means people, in all likelihood, won't fail.

Yes. Sometimes that's all that students aim for. We've all been there.

Tomorrow's the last exam for the period, after which some will leave for the European campus and some will leave for Wharton. Those who've exempted Process and Operations Mgmt will leave today.

It all means that we won't see some of our class again.

Its strange how the past four months have seemed like a lifetime. Maybe its because we feel like we've been in the wars and have fought battles and shouldered burdens together. I will miss these people and campus will seem just that little bit different when classes resume after the break.

My regular end-of-period poem (Period 1's poem is linked here) will follow but my next regular post will be on holiday from home in Chennai.