So this was a fun exam. While some professors write very casual exams in that you are able to work through the exam at your own discretion, some professors detail how much time you should, and must, spend on a given task or question. This was one of the latter exams. For the first hour and twenty minutes of the exam, we were not allowed to write or type any answers to the questions. Rather, this was "thinking" and "outlining" time. I appreciate the necessity of thinking through a question prior to answering it, but this front loading of all of the thinking, rather than working, and writing, question-by-question, was difficult for me to handle. Once I think through a question, resolve it, and move on to another issue, it is difficult for me to return to the prior question again. With a twelve essay exam and a further two hours and forty minutes of "writing" time, this proved especially cumbersome today. I suppose we'll see how the cards fall in a few weeks, but I'm hoping not to have another similarly written exam in the future.
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