This morning I had my first exam here. Well, this morning and day actually. You have 5 hours! to complete your exam here, and I used 4:45 of it :)
I was a bit anxious (a thing we needed to learn for the exam) for this. In the Netherlands I normally have 1 to 2 hours, and 3 hours is for something like a graduation exam. Here 5 hours is very normal.
And actually it was really nice. First I spent 1,5 hour on writing the answers in a short form and then I spent the rest of the time rewriting it and making nice sentences. Also good because you go over the questions and your answers once more and you correct things. This is really different from what I’m used to. Usally I always go through the questions and answers one more time, but as it is already writing down, you hardly look at it in another way, and it thus won’t help much. This time it did. And I think it went very well. Also not that much of a problem as it was about how you understood things instead of knowing facts.
The only thing that was not so nice is the pain in my hand from all the writing. Though it is less when there is no direct pressure, like when you have say 5 hours ;)
Below the mindmap that I created when I was learning. This covers only I think about half or 1/3 of the information we got..
For the people with FreeMind (the software ;)), you can download my mindmap.
Tags: anatomy of intcult interact, education, mindmap, swedish way, time, video
Categories: a cultural journey, an academic journey
