One more
This Wednesday is my final exam! Then I am free! After almost 20 years of full time education and more than 10 years of 6-monthly examinations I will finally be free!
The last exam wasn’t too bad. I think I managed to answer 1.5 out of 3 questions close to completely right and I am sure I will have gleaned a few marks from the other 1.5, along with the coursework that should be a comfortable enough final mark.
The upcoming exam this Wednesday afternoon is Image Processing. It should be a relatively simple exam. The concepts are simple enough, the mathematics is pretty basic.
BUT (and this is a big but!)… The lecturer seems to set his exams based on us gaining his understanding of the subject rather than developing our own understanding. Now this might seem like a trivial difference. But the problem lies in my lack of confidence in my lecturer’s completeness of knowledge and understanding of his topic. When we were doing the coursework for the (half) module, we took some slightly different approaches to some of the aspects involved, these were mostly code-savers, for example we used black on white for one comparison and counted the bg pixels rather than the foreground, simply because we had an algorithm in a method to count the white pixels in an image. It took us a while to explain this to him and that it gave the same results.
So this means that in order to get the marks in the exam we are going to have to do things exactly the way he would do them, any deviations from this may result in him deducting marks from an answer that is perectly good, simply as he can’t get his head around it.
Now being an engineer this is difficult for me, as my years of learning have been based around devising solutions to problems based on my own understanding of the problem and available solutions. Now I have to learn to regurgitate, and to be honest this has never been a strong point of mine. My mind works best with concepts rather than with listed facts.
