Well, that was that
Jan. 14th, 2011 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielExam: survived. Middle English part went all right, Orality/Literacy (my favourite ;_;) part was miserable, Pragmatics was okay-ish. When I left the office, I was expecting something 3*-ish. Came back in to be told "Unfortunately we could only make it 1.7"...
Managed to bite back "AHAHAH, 'unfortunately', are you kidding me?!". Attempted to be not too ridiculously obviously relieved and surprised. Had to laugh when they praised how well I'd done on the ME part, though (reading out loud & on the spot translating a bit of Chaucer, discussing a couple of noticeable words and forms, + additional questions). That quite honestly was the easiest part. I mean, I had to hand in a corpus of ~2000 lines (I chose three Tales from the Canterbury Tales, namely the Reeve's, the Franklin's and the Nuns' Priest's) from which 20 lines would be chosen by prof. As one of the topical foci I had listed was dialectology... shall we just say that I was not entirely surprised that the 20 lines were from the Reeve's Tale, and included some dialogue from the students?
Sadly, on Orality/Literacy he asked some theoretical stuff and thanks to some brainfarts I got helplessly mixed up with the terminology. Buggre all this for a larke. (Aggregative ≠ additive... >_>)
But anyway. This wasn't the miracle I was hoping for, but it wasn't the execution I was dreading either, so there.
Wish I could say "Anyway, it's OVER!" now, but noooo, only ONE of my examiners has managed to grade my respective essay so far. And one of the others has apparently had an accident so I'm not expecting to hear anything from that direction soon...
Oral exams have always been my greatest terror and greatest weakness. Until now, I've always been better when I've been armed with pen and paper (I am a thoroughly literacy-damaged person). It is kind of ironic that the best result I've managed (so far) is in... the oral exams.
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*Rough guideline to German academic grades: 1.0-1.5 = very good, 1.6-2.5 = good, 2.6-3.5 = satisfying, 3.6-4.0 = sufficient. More than 4 = not passed. 1.7 is a good "good". You do not have to understand this.
²This is only a tautology when looked at semantically, i.e. naïvely, but I'll spare you the Pragmatics lecture. Just don't mention it.
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Date: 2011-01-14 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 07:11 pm (UTC)Ich hab eigentlich immer ganz gern mündliche Prüfungen abgelegt. Unsere gesamte Diplomprüfung ist ja mündlich (also die, die man machen muss, wenn ALLES andere fertig, benotet und erledigt ist.)
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Date: 2011-01-14 08:21 pm (UTC)*schauder*
Ja, ich kenn einige Leute, die mündliche Prüfungen angenehmer finden... ich gehör halt nicht dazu. >_> Ich brauch meistens mehr Zeit, um meine Gedanken zu sortieren und die Frage richtig einzuordnen, als in mündlichen Prüfsituationen gegeben ist.
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Date: 2011-01-14 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-14 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 08:21 am (UTC)I was lucky to have all essay notes when I went into the oral exam. So I knew it didn't matter if I totally fucked up - which I promptly did.
Doch, solche Leute gibt's - um's noch schlimmer zu machen findet er mündliche Prüfungen auch noch einfacher als schriftliche - und sich mit ihnen zu vergleichen ist so sinnlos wie schlecht für's Ego ;)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:17 am (UTC)Eh well. As things are, the oral exam is probably going to lift my result considerably. That's... unexpected. ^^
Ich weiß. Und trotzdem tu ich's immer wieder. Mein Ego ist offenbar masochistisch veranlagt...no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:44 am (UTC)Ich hab irgendwann festgestellt dass es einfach damit zu tun hat, dass er seinen Pinguin (http://www.sanobene.de/Service/Die-Pinguin-Geschichte-von-Dr.-med.-Eckart-von-Hirschhausen) gefunden hatte. Da ich meinen längst hatte, gab's also keinen Grund zum Vergleichen :)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:55 am (UTC)Tja, das ist schon so eins meiner Probleme - ich hab gefühlt nicht nur einen inneren Pinguin, sondern auch noch einen Strauß, einen Albatros und einen Dodo, die alle irgendwo untergebracht werden wollen ^^no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 07:13 pm (UTC)Hauptsache, es gerät dabei nicht dem dämlichen Pfau von nebenan ins Gehege ;)
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Date: 2011-01-15 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-16 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-17 05:54 am (UTC)Gratulation! :)
Ich hab noch eine vor mir... :(
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Date: 2011-01-19 11:22 am (UTC)Dir dann noch viel Glück. Wer weiß, schriftlich muss ich ja vielleicht auch noch in die Nachprüfung. *sfz*