5/12th MBA done :o)

My 3rd term mid terms are over.
Now the question is not how they went (that is never a question to be asked to anyone here at IIMA, can lead to violent reactions :o))

But i will, on my own free will, give u a brief summary of the exams :o)

Day 1:
Morning: OD
first 25 minutes as a quiz. Closed book. Screwed. We have something called blackbooks here, which are old quiz or exam questions. I had assumed that since there will anyway be a case for the 2 hour exam, there will be objective questions in the quiz. So had mugged the blackbooks.
Quiz paper khola, ek case. And titto had sent a similar case at night to study and i had ignored it (the irony is he himself didnt read it)
Verdict: Screwed

9:45: OD open book exam. We were already given the case one day before. So we knew the case well (or rather we supposed to know it well). 3 questions. I tried really hard to fart, but it wont come. So wrote wat i thought was relavant and left .5 hour early

Verdict: OD hai yaar, sab bhagwaan bharose hai

2:00 PM: Operations Management II
The case was Indian Cha
One page case. Saare funde hila diye. Missed a basic trick and ended treating my calci as a keyboard, hitting the keys at the speed of light.
Then there was taguchi methods (plz dont raise ur eyebrows, i myself still dont know wat they mean :o))
The protagonist of the case was Mansukhbhai, who had already screwed our Quiz (the same character was there in the quiz question also). Mansukhbhai wanted to optimise his Chai business. And in the process burnt our arses with Indian Cha

Verdict: The worst paper in IIMA yet. Hence a bamboo shoved right up my arse


Day 2:
9:00 AM: Quantitative methods II
Was a simple paper. But there was an inherent assumption that IIMA students are MS Excel incarnate. A regression question with 15 entries was given.
Could not complete the exam

Verdict: Royally screwed

2:00 PM: Management Information Systems
Had to identify Critical Success Factors for some Swedish company and then draw some data flow diagrams and an entity relationship diagram.
Technical stuff was wat scared me off to MBA.

Verdict: So so


Day 3:

9:00 Finance II
4 hour paper. Bamboo to usi waqt ho gaya tha :o)
The main requirement of the case was to find a value called beta. Beta ne is nacheez ki maar li :o(
Nothing more to say on this.

Verdict: Screwed

2:00 PM: Economic Environment n Policy II
30 minute paper. Rapid fire objective questions. True of false. True 2 marks. False -1.
Lekin mujhme chulla hai sabhi kuch mark karne ka. Hence its aar or paar. Dekhte hai :o)
Paper done in 10 minutes. Left in 20 mins.
Does not mean i knew answers to more than half of the questions. But i marked all :o)

Verdict: Bhagwaan bharose :o)


Hence now u know how the exams went :o)