In Term 1

Term's four exams were held on two consecutive days this week. Last time I wrote four exams in two days was in school. As I was writing the first exam, it was announced that second term course packs must be collected by students the same day! I don't know if any student was desperate to start his next term. But the size of the course pack was sufficient to scare us before the next three exams.

Marketing was not my favourite subject (atleast for the moment) but the wonderful things happened in the class or in exam. The double entendre in the first weeks, Arbit Class Participation, Prof. Jagmohan Raju's (PJR) cold calling, 700 page reading scare two days before exams and best of all writing the exam.

PJR cold calling was unique. He makes best use of powerpoint slides. For the first few minutes, there is excitement in his class. A one-liner question flashes on screen. Every student now wonders if it is their turn today. PJR pauses and then pushes a key and a student photo appears. If a student is unable to answer then that student gets to cold call someone else or other students volunteer to answer. It seemed to me those who never CP'd in any class were the ones cold-called.

From term 1,
MicroEconomics - Prof Rakesh Vohra and Prof Amit Bubna Concepts, weekly quiz from Amit, Assignments that went into early hours of the day, two exams both problem based

Marketing - Prof Asim Ansari and Prof Jagmohan Raju
Too many terms, theory and problems, case discussions, CP and PJR cold calls, one exam

Accounting - Prof Mark Finn
Highly practical, fewer concepts but importance to data structure, weekly online quizzes, one exam

Statistics - Prof Bob Stine and Prof Richard Waterman
Most practical subject, application based with little or no formulae, no assignments, two exams

We have a term break now - it is a weekend from Wednesday!