Wednesday, September 16, 2009

the one with all the Quizzes.

A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.--source wikipedia.
IIT quizzes- a set of questions, easy enough to be answered almost 75% correctly in order to help a student pass a particular course.(except some)
BUT-yeah there is a big but associated with it. Sometimes the almost answerable questions can twist your brain that instead of helping in improving your grade, they might actually help you in stepping a grade down. And when they happen in high frequency, they are even more dangerous. Take for example, this week i am having three quizzes. I have already had two, one on Monday, one today and there is one more tomorrow.
Monday one was a surprise quiz with a single question, with one hour to answer. So you can imagine how hard the question was. Some students were about to leave the class with an empty paper. The T.A. got sympathetic and we were allowed to discuss the question a bit. Thankfully after some peeking and discussing, most of us were able to solve it half correct.
Today's quiz was an open book and open notes quiz. Same subject, that we had on Monday It had the same three questions which got in our minor paper. It was challenge sort of thing from the professor that see, even with books in your laps, you won't be able to solve the questions. But we did solve them and god knows how correct they were. Although some of us did get the same answer.
And then there is tomorrow's quiz. It is a lab quiz i.e.  our lab performance will be judged by that quiz as there are not enough equipments to let everyone do individual experiments. The subject is Microbiology and the questions will be from the experiments we have done in the lab. I hope it won't we a fighter one.
Now with so many quizzes going on and the shock of minors not yet over, it feels like that the majors are just round the corner. There is no time to even think about Rendezvous.
I think i should probably start studying for tomorrow.

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