Has any teacher sugested you that could do something more to improve your grades?
Did you do something more and your grade is bigger than it should be?
Do you think that difference should be taken into account since they calculate each and every cent of your grade (grades list)?

Have you looked over the exams of other groups?
Do you have a clear image of what your going to get at the final exam?

Now… get in touch with reality!
You’re in Romania… the land of opportunities (nope, I’m not wrong, there are just some other opportunities here).
You have an exam today, the easiest one - programming. You know almost everything that needs to be known for that exam, you know what others (3 groups) have had before you… the subjects were almost the same.

So… given this situation… you still have a surprise… Why?
Because…
1. extra work doesn’t count. Quote: Oh.. no… I’ve just put max for the grades. // even though there was more than max (which does count in some situations)
2.1. totally different subjects (like we were somehow special - in the wrong meaning)
2.2.(or) not enough time (we should get used to this… it becomes a tradition)

As I’ve said before, the programming exam (SDA) isn’t great because of this. It’s just killing. It’s just like it was ment to be killing. Programming isn’t hard, but we kind of have the luck to get some out of this world subjects in extremely little time. Well, the subjects are not ‘out of this world’ if you had enough time.

I have once again discovered how difficult programming on paper is. How many times have you changed the structures inside your program, how many times have you added/removed/changed parameters for one of the functions you defined? The same thing happens in writing. Can you imagine how does that look like when you don’t have enough time? I can tell you.. it looks like a big mess (because it’s on paper).

Yep, this post is mostly about my programming exam I had today, which I have passed getting a 9/10 (which is good, under other conditions). I can’t find that satisfactory though, given the above conditions. Some of my coleagues failed to pass, unfortunately.

I am probably a little pissed of right now because of the conditions we had, because of the subjects (which weren’t great compared to the others, not to mention a little bit ambigous) and mostly because of the fact that extra work isn’t rewarded as it should. The last one is even worse taking into account that you get this treatment in school.

Many Romanian employees refuse to self-develop just because their achievements are not rewarded. They realise that anything they would do extra might simply be ignored. This way, they agree on doing only what they’re payed for, refusing to come with new ideas. This reaction shouldn’t be encouraged in school.