Taking test.

Though this is my 4th year as a grad student, I did not understand how to take a test for a good score. This semester, I am taking two classes and teaching one - sounds funny, right? PhD students usually finish their course work in two years and focus on research in the following years but I made an unusual way. I did not take a lot of courses in my first two years but now found that my knowledge especially the English terms cannot help me understand people from different fields. So, Cell Biology is one of my two classes this semester. My first test was completely a failure, not because I did not understand but because of the timing. There were 25 multi-choice and two assays but when I came to the assays, I have only 15 min left. The result was, I missed the last one losing almost all scores.

For the second test last Friday, I changed my strategy: I started with assays and then multi-choice. This way, I finished almost half the scores in 25 min (50 min in total) and finished all questions in time (you can try your luck on multi-choice if time does not allow fine thoughts, isn't it?). Just now I saw the key for the test and I believe I will do a much better work in this test. All boring work before this test got realized. I am so happy that I can make some improvement after my hard work.