Complaints regarding Finance 1 summer exam

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   Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

   Comments: The paper was extremely difficult and section C was nothing like what was taught in the lectures. The time limit was not sufficient for such a lengthy paper.

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   Name: Marcus Cross on May 19, 2012

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   Name: Mon Yee on May 19, 2012

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   Name: Zubeyr Khan on May 19, 2012

   Comments: Section C was nothing like what we had been taught before to handle

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   Name: Adrian R Debski on May 19, 2012

   Comments: Section C was quite difficult and structured in such a way that it gave no chance of answering further questions unless one solved all the preceding ones. Too much weighting was put on Section C.

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   Name: Abigail Johnson on May 19, 2012

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   Name: Florence on May 19, 2012

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   Name: Farah Uzair on May 19, 2012

   Comments: The finance 1 exam consisted of questions unlike any other exam paper in the past. Not only was the time constraint too short, section C's question was something that we were taught and the level of difficulty that this paper posed was too high.

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   Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

   Comments: Not enough time to finish the paper. One and a half hours is clearly not enough. Section C was completely an alien topic, and section B was too long.

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    Name: Adrien Dupuis on May 19, 2012

    Comments: section c was not feasable with the material covered in the module. the time constraint was also harsh: at least 2 hours needed to complete the exam

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    Name: Salonee Jaidhara on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anna on May 19, 2012

    Comments: Finance 1 exam was not comparable to past papers neither by context no by difficulty. Part B was relatively harder and questions 6 and 7 were long and confusing. Part C (question 10) was compulsory and weighted 40% of the whole exam. We never discussed this type of questions on the seminars and lectures. By its own question 10 was too complicated to be solved in 36 minutes (40/90mins). I suggest that such advanced questions would contain less marks just for those who aim on 80+ results. Otherwise, my knowledge of the discipline (module context) was not actually EXAMined but I was challenged on advanced knowledge. Therefore, I doubt this exam could be done successfully by anyone from my course because of: Time limit No choice in Part C (40 marks) Confusing context of the task itself in part C 40%!!!! on one topic in Part C Complicated and time consuming questions in Part B

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    Name: Cecilia Jeppsson on May 19, 2012

    Comments: With the time constraint we had I do not think it was fair to have the last question be worth 40% when it was a question which required so much extra thought and understanding. Had the exam been 2 hours or had the last question only been worth 10-20 % I think it would have been a lot more fair.

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    Name: Johan Klerfelt on May 19, 2012

    Comments: For the amount of time given the test was close to impossible to complete. Further I truly believe that the exam did not stand i relation the the topics covered in lectures.

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    Name: Anastasia Dubrovina on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Himanshu on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Sang on May 19, 2012

    Comments: Last part of the question was given too much mark. Lengthy question for both parts of B and C made the exam too much for the given time of 90mins. Also the last section was dealing with materials that was unfamiliar even for someone who put in much effort in revision.

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    Name: JongHak Yang on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Andrei Damaschin on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Andrei Damaschin on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Tijana Copic on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Krupesh Shah on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

    Comments: It was way too hard, I did expect it to be difficult to a certain extent but not like this.. literally shocked..

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    Name: Andreas Kasianis on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Nischal Randev on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anand Popat on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Olgu Afsaroglu on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Olgu Afsaroglu on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Marisol Saona on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Charles Dolan on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Quentin Barnini on May 19, 2012

    Comments: I am a non native english speaker and I could not understand the question C. Question C was phrased with vocabulary we had never seen before and seemed to have been done to fail us. Why make this question phrased to trick us ? for a so large part of the exam ? It really felt we were doing a BSc of Mathematics and not a BSc of Management ! The C question was much harder than any of the past exams were students were given the choice to choose between questions !

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    Name: Amrit Arneja on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

    Comments: how can an exam be so hard?? (Finance 1) I was more than ready to get a first before doing the exam. At the end of the exam, I had the feeling of not having opened one book to revise...

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    Name: Yash Agrawal on May 19, 2012

    Comments: Totally different from anything done during course. Not enough time at all for what he wanted us to do

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    Name: Jillian Chim on May 19, 2012

    Comments: 1) Paper was too difficult, not of the standard that we are used to. If standard is to be this high, at least have the decency to prepare us to tackle such tough questions. 2) Lack of past year papers to practice. Only Summer 2011 paper was made available. Did not provide us with sufficient exposure to tackle tough questions. 3) Suggest moderation of marks. 4)Thoughts: What is the point of setting the paper so tough such that most of the cohort isn't able to do it only to moderate it later? This only puts students down and makes them feel stupid, as if they haven't prepared for the exam. Does not help morale and confidence level during exam time. Affects performance in other papers.

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    Name: Hannah Libot on May 19, 2012

    Comments: I felt that the lectures, seminars and past papers did not prepare the students for the exam. If the intention was to make the exam this difficult then the least that could be done was to provide background and practice to enable students had the necessary opportunity to prepare fairly for this exam.

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Chotika Anantawithayanon on May 19, 2012

    Comments: I came in feeling prepared and certain of my knowledge. I revised each section thoroughly and reviewed through all past exams. I had high expectations and was confident in passing this exam. However, the structure of the exam, the length, the language and the content changed all that. It was not a fair test. We were given 1.5 hour to complete 5 multiple choices and 3 questions that might sound small to the reader but for us its almost an impossible task. There were so much text and content that was hard to process. This is a finance exam not a literature one, why make it so flowery/lengthy . The questions should be phrase so that it is easy to process and it should be straight forward. I would not have complained on this issue if it was not for the past exams in which did not contain this type of wording and the questions' standard did not bore the same difficulty as this current one. It seemed like they have designed this exam to confuse us and for us to fail. I believe that this exam does not reflect my knowledge or skills that I have learned in finance.

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    Name: Julie Kierszenbaum on May 19, 2012

    Comments: Unfair exam that does not accurately represent our knowledge on the module.

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    Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Chloe Thevenin on May 19, 2012

    Comments: I had really studied hard for this exam. I had done and redone three or four times all the problem sets, every past paper and found that first of all, the time given was not enough for the exam. If it had had similar questions to the previous years, as in no difficult tricks as there were this year, it would have been doable time wise, but the amount of tricks we had made the completion of the whole exam impossible. And Section C was like nothing we had ever seen before, I had no clue what to do. This exam seemed more like the type that tests whether we are geniuses and finance wizzes, however it was not presented to me like being that type of module at registration last year. I put a lot of effort into this exam and was very confident when walking in but I found it extremely difficult in that time limit and too different from what had been said by the module tutors and lecturers. I am very upset as I cannot stress enough how much time and effort I had put into the preparation for this exam to make sure I could get a first. I could seriously not have done more work than I did and am therefore very fustrated. It has highly discouraged me for my other exams,

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    Name: Christoffer Jonsson on May 19, 2012

    Comments: After revising the chapters, seminar-work and past exams thoroughly, I believed I would get a good opportunity to challenge my understanding of Finance 1 in the exam. However, at the exam, I found myself nothing but confused with several questions. I believe that the level of difficulty was certainly higher than previous year’s exam. Consequently, I argue that the past exams provided for us in order to help with our revision was misleading and clearly much easier than 2012's exam. There are a number of reasons to support this argument. To start with, the language and financial terms used in the exam questions was very hard to understand and it was written in an advanced level beyond our knowledge acquired in this module. Secondly, the time constraint for the amount of questions and the especially the length of the questions made the exam almost impossible to complete. Furthermore, I believe that in general the questions were more mathematically focused which, as a result, failed to give us the opportunity to show qualitative knowledge about the topics. All in all, I think the exam was unsuccessful in giving us a chance to prove our knowledge acquired in this module.

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    Name: Lorenzo Piccolomini on May 19, 2012

    Comments: finance 1 exam not appropriate - section C next to impossible, and 1.5 hours not enough time

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    Name: Rutger Linderoth on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Naina Thapar on May 19, 2012

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    Name: Hina Sattar on May 19, 2012

    Comments: The exam was too long with not enough time, and specifically Section C was very advanced compared to the past papers!

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    Name: Maelle Debeugny on May 20, 2012

    Comments: Unlike previous past paper, each section had a trick which we obviously had not seen before and this meant we had to spend more time working on them. Part C was something we had never seen before, which meant we had to spend time working on it to understand and it was quite confusing. Overall we really did not have enough time and were not tested on things we had learnt but also new things (explained directly in the exam paper) which is clearly not the goal of an exam.

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