Yesterday was the first of my two elective examinations and was on ICL. The course itself has been so incredibly structured that I assumed the exam would be straightforward enough. If you are currently in the UK you will be aware of the ridiculously hot weather we are experiencing at the moment - and I don't do heat! Give me a log cabin in the snow any day! On top of this my new car has (a) manual windows (yes, they do still exist!) and (b) no air conditioning. So my multiple hour long journey to uni was less than comfortable. Nevertheless it was lovely to see the campus full of summery looking students all revising in the sunshine and I enjoyed a pre-exam salad with my friends on the grass before we went to our doom.
First of all, the room was SWELTERING. Genuinely, I walked in and instantly felt a little sick at the thought of spending the next three hours in that stuffy heat, trying not to drink so I could avoid a time-wasting toilet break and doing my best to maintain peak concentration. Luckily, we were all in the same boat.
The exam began and in usual fashion it was ten multiple choice questions worth two marks each followed by the written questions worth the remaining 80% of the paper. As someone who generally struggles with the MCQs on the papers, I was sooo relieved to find that they were all unusually similar to the practice questions we are required to do for each workshop (and which I had run through that morning!). Hoorah!!! There were not many that I was not confident about.
The written questions were a bit more tricky. There were four and they were all styled on "read the email and write your response in a report". Annoyingly unnecessary when you don't want to waste precious time faffing and just want to answer the question! Because of this slight set back my timing was a bit off. Each "report" had specified subtitles but it wasn't clear how many marks were allotted under each subtitle, only under the whole question. This meant I was unsure how much was required in each bit.
I did finish the exam and do all the questions. One of my friends missed the last question but then it was only worth six marks so not necessarily catastrophic. Now I am preparing myself for my final ever exam on Thursday for Private Client. I cannot wait!
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