I had my Contemporary Indigenous Issues exam today at 9:30. I felt alright going into it, not anything like my exams at home, even though it is 40% of our grade and I should have been terrified. The test was 1/4 multiple choice, 1/2 short answer, and 1/4 essay. She gave us all of the multiple choice beforehand with the answers. She also gave us 10 possibilities for the short answer and 5 of those were on the exam. I was pretty well prepared for those and practiced writing out answers to the short answers a few times. I know that I got all of the multiple choice write and at least some of the points for all of the short answers because we (Corin, Lily, Morgan, Shawn, and myself) looked up the answers as a group to help study so I know I was on the right track. One of the short answers was about Aboriginal health so I better have gotten all the points on that one since it's about public health and that's what I want to do with my life. The essay also seemed alright, but I don't know how harshly the lecturer will grade because she graded so hard on the two papers we had. After the exam, I went to the CIEE office to print off my confirmation email for the Harry Potter tickets. On my way there, however, I pass by my lecturer's office and Corin, Lily, and Shawn were in there and called me in to talk to her. We talked to her for a while and she was really nice outside of the class setting.
Exams here are really different than at home. Not sure if it is a Hope thing or an American thing, though. The exams are all in lecture theatres instead of your classroom. They also have multiple exams going on in the same room. I think there was four in our room. Each class was assigned certain rows and the tests and answer booklets were already set out for us. All we could take to the desks were pencils and our ID so they could check it and make sure we are taking our own exams. We had to leave the rest of our stuff like bags and phones at the front of the room. The lecturers were not there, but instead there was three people monitoring us. One was standing in the front of the room, one walked around to make sure no one was cheating, and one would accompany you if you had to go to the bathroom. The exam set up was different too because at the beginning of the exam period, there was 10 minutes of what they call reading time. I guess you just read through the test. We were allowed to make notes while reading but one of the other classes was not. You can't start on your answer booklet, though. This exam was my first time using a blue book!
I then came back and talked to my roommate from home, whose name is also Caitlin, for a while. I then took a nap which ended up being much longer than I intended it to be. I have been working on my paper ever since waking up from my nap, with the exception of eating dinner and writing this post. 2500 words is longer than I had realized and I should have started this paper much sooner since it is due tomorrow by 4. I have written out an outline of what he wants us to talk about and some points and am just starting to actually write it to see how much more I have to find. Luckily that even though it is a research paper almost all of the information is supposed to come from one book that is online and he gave us. This paper is 30% of my grade in the class, but I've been doing pretty well and he isn't too hard of a grader so hopefully I will be fine.
Oh and the title is referring to what I said on my post yesterday about the heavens opening up and the angels singing 'Hallelujah' when I finished my Contemporary Indigenous Issues class.
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