One more exam to go. I've got word back that I passed the Animal Breeding paper, so that one's fine, but I'm vaguely annoyed at the Alimentary exam - basically, while I spent all my time trying to make sure I knew everything that had come up in the lectures, that I could recognise the most significant histopathological changes each condition created, and that I had at least basic knowledge of the best way to proceed to confirm diagnoses and how to treat...
Let's stop for a minute and review that sentence, shall we? All my time. You have no idea how much bloody time and effort went into all that study. I even tried to fit in modes of action of emetics, anti-emetics, and other drugs mentioned in the last two lectures. I'm pretty sure that at certain points I heard light thudding noises because all this information was deviously shoving birthdays and phone numbers out of my brain to fall to their deaths on the desk below.
Now, with all that said: the entire exam was apparently based on the premise that we would memorise by rote the details of the cases presented in the three histology/lab report interpretation practical sessions.
Are you people fucking serious?! Fourteen hours of lectures - which take about fourteen hours to read over again competently, and at least another fourteen to not only memorise but understand - were shunted in favour of re-presenting the cases given in 6 hours' worth of classes that take less than 6 hours to read over and memorise by rote? I'm not sure I see the merit of this system, nor that I would see it even if I hadn't been so lacking in time at the end that the final practical ended up being skim-read with no time to crammorise lab details.
The previous efforts have left me a bit sleep-deprived so I'm mainly concentrating on making up on the lost sleep and revising for the last exam, but at some point soon I should find the time to update.
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