My purpose for writing in this blog is mainly to update my life to the people back home, also to my dear sister in Russia. And along the way, I figured that all my experiences can serve as a guide, example or an inspiration for the rest of you out there who stumbled upon these pages. Who knows when you might encounter events that I've went through. At least after knowing my experiences, you could react better and make better decisions than I did when your time calls for it. However, one of my rules is to keep myself anonymous as much as I can. No one outside this virtual world knows about this blog except for my family and very very very extremely close friends. I told no one else. I might've posted pictures of my face somewhere around here, but that was intentioned for my parents to see, and it wasn't appropriate enough to be uploaded on FB.. Whoever managed to come across my face were considered lucky (lol!) but strangers wouldn't know who I am anyway. haha...

To put it simply, I don't want people to suddenly barge into this blog all at once including my friends who also took the course, and get teased by everyone the next day in uni. -_- I got teased once before, I don't want another one. Not because of this...

How bad was the situation of this 3404 course you might ask? Well, the matter went all the way to the school's academic dean. This one girl got called up to his office because she was the first one to lodge in a complaint email to the lecturer, cc'd it to the Business, Econs & Law faculty. She wrote all her frustrations, and consequently everyone else followed suit. eg: 

1) there was too much questions and it was impossible to complete it within the given time period, even for a 7-graded excellent student who could actually think through what the alienated questions really wanted.

2) majority of the 8 marks question weren't thoroughly covered in lectures and tutorials but required substantial explanations and thinking, and those which were thoroughly covered were only given 1 to 2 marks, and some 4 marks. Even if students managed to cover all the given lecture and tutorial materials twice or more, it was still impossible to grasp what the question really wants and it was even more impossible to get the full 8 marks if at all. (It was as if the lecturer was treating us like postgrad students who would do our own researchs on these things T___T)

3) There were too much flippings of the exam booklet especially for the Zscore model, it wastes time enough said. (This one guy told that he set aside a good 30 minutes for it and still couldn't solve he table alone)

4) The course was badly structured. No one can see a clear outline and its relations to other topics in the course, and almost all of the terms were needed to be googled again in order for the students to grasp a better understanding. (They should've just given us a prescribed reading material!)

5) Sample exam questions and materials from the Revisions lecture were absolutely misleading! (We aren't provided with past years at all, and all our other courses sends out sample exams which we could actually rely on, meaning that the question will be somewhat similar with some added evil twists here and there. I personally thought the topics they would assess us on can be based on the sample exams and revision lecture's materials combined, but believe it or not, NONE of it came out.. -_-)

And more... Majority of the students demanded for justice, either we should be rewarded an easy 5 or 6 just for enduring the stupid exam, or everyone gets to pass no matter how awfully they scored on the paper, or... resit a new exam that is more to a degree student's capacity and consist of what have been covered in lectures and tutorials and not on ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING OF BANKING AND LENDING DECISION THERE IS TO KNOW IN THIS WHOLE WIDE WORLD! I hope they won't do another exam though T__T 3404 is such a pain in the neck I hope not to have to go through the materials again. Using a Bell curve would be good, but the school told us that UQ NEVER uses methods such as bell curves, like ever... but they do implement some other weird statistical stuff to grade the students. But then again, these methods couldn't really help those who were simply shocked by the insanity of the questions and just broke right there in the exam hall. It was simply the most awful exam everyone has ever sat for, even for those students who had been studying in UQ for 6 years! Things got even more serious and the Discussion Board ended up being hidden by the faculty because it could be provoking the matter, and not solving it...

And guess what. I wasted two days of my precious income tax law revision time just because my heart just won't settle! I just felt like everything is lost. I felt like all my efforts could never be enough ever again. I felt like everything is just a waste of time, that is if exams like this 3404 ever takes place again. A WASTE OF TIME! I never felt that way before for a paper which grades could actually determine my future. T_T

I was lucky I managed to finish my law revision in time, and Alhamdulillah I managed to do my best for it, and walk out of the exam hall with a content heart and a content smile. :)

I think I shall open this blog again when I get back from my winter trip in 3 weeks' time. How does that sound? :p Here's a solo from Park Yoochun for his new drama Miss Ripley!! ^_^ But honestly I don't really like the song. Because I only love Jaejoong's songs!! Weeeeee~ xD