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Sep. 30th, 2010 03:11 pmWe got back our first Personality Psychology exam! It consisted of five essay questions, no choices. So, yeah, we had to do all five of them. Thankfully we had 1hr50mins to complete them, and it was taken last Thursday.
Our professor had them all marked by Tuesday's class (which is pretty amazing since he was in Italy last week for a conference so his TA had to proctor our exam and I can't imagine the jet lag and unwillingness to dive in 20+ students writing 5 essays), but some students were sick/absent that Thursday and hadn't taken it so we had to wait for them.
I got a 98 for the exam! Out of 100!!!! I got 18 for the first question and 20 for all the rest. I was rather surprised, especially because I confess to grasping at wild straws for the last question. I hadn't read the article in question (McAdams, the first paper we had to read, though I mistakenly read another one because my cousin's death made me frazzled and I never went back to that first reading) and I was going off notes we had in class. The question had asked something like "why is the third and deepest level of knowing someone (according to McAdams) not frequently used in personality studies?" We never talked about the disadvantages in class of the 3 ways to know someone, so I assumed the 3rd and deepest way to "know" a person according to McAdams was like doing a case study on someone, so I pulled disadvantages from that form of research... Woohooo! I did bust my butt studying for that exam so I do feel justified and proud of getting a 98. And it's the highest in the class, too. *beams even more*
Man, I'm such a nerd sometimes.
Our professor had them all marked by Tuesday's class (which is pretty amazing since he was in Italy last week for a conference so his TA had to proctor our exam and I can't imagine the jet lag and unwillingness to dive in 20+ students writing 5 essays), but some students were sick/absent that Thursday and hadn't taken it so we had to wait for them.
I got a 98 for the exam! Out of 100!!!! I got 18 for the first question and 20 for all the rest. I was rather surprised, especially because I confess to grasping at wild straws for the last question. I hadn't read the article in question (McAdams, the first paper we had to read, though I mistakenly read another one because my cousin's death made me frazzled and I never went back to that first reading) and I was going off notes we had in class. The question had asked something like "why is the third and deepest level of knowing someone (according to McAdams) not frequently used in personality studies?" We never talked about the disadvantages in class of the 3 ways to know someone, so I assumed the 3rd and deepest way to "know" a person according to McAdams was like doing a case study on someone, so I pulled disadvantages from that form of research... Woohooo! I did bust my butt studying for that exam so I do feel justified and proud of getting a 98. And it's the highest in the class, too. *beams even more*
Man, I'm such a nerd sometimes.
