My first exam this semester

I woke up at 9am this morning, had the usual bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee as my breakfast, and went to uni at about 10.30. I reached school minutes before 11, and I waited for my friends before we took the 11.15 shuttle bus to other campus where the exam will take place.

We arrived at Caulfield campus just before 12 and Andrew was so hungry since he did not had any breakfast at all, well, actually none of them had one. We went to Seng Hing, a Chinese restaurant nearby to have our lunch.

Then we just waited at campus until 2pm before we went to the exam venue which is located across the station. The exam started at 2.30, it was a 3-hour exam with 10 minutes reading time.

It was Performance Measurement and Control, or known as Advanced Management Accounting by students, exam. I was seated on 2248 which is located in the second floor. At first, I was quite confident with my preparations, but everything changed when I saw the questions in the reading time. I was blown away with the fact that I don't really able to answer those questions, all my reading time was really dedicated to reading the questions only.

But I wasn't prepared to fail this subject as I scored a considerably high internal mark, so I tried to calm down and try to understand the questions again. Fortunately, many things came up to my mind and I started writing. There are 5 questions and we were supposed to allocate 36 minutes for each questions to answer them.

Unexpectedly, I finished the examination in 2 hours! I couldn't believe it myself either, and I looked around, seeing a lot of empty seats, which means that many students left already. I couldn't believe it either, a 3-hour exam was finished by most students in 2 hours. I saw all my friends still sitting on their seat, but I just couldn't write anymore, so I decided to leave.

As soon as I left the examination room, some of my friends followed me and we waited outside for the others while discussing the questions.

And that was my very first examination in this semester, I hope the other three will turn out to be alright.

Van- 29/09/09