Friday, January 19, 2007

I guess there's no way round it...

I just realized that I bragged about how happy I was with my grades in P1, so I guess I have to disclose that I'm not exactly thrilled with my grades in P2.

Basically, I was hugely disappointed by my grade in marketing. To some extent I was also disappointed by my grades in managerial accounting. We did good case work for both courses, and especially for managerial accounting where I did most of it. So, my way-below-average grades on both of them came as a very bad surprise.

Relatively ranked, my top subjects were:
  1. Process and Operations Managment.
    Well, 9 years in a manufacturing company, working with supply chain projects for a chunk of that time - no big surprise exactly.

  2. Corporate Financial Policy.
    I surpassed my goal for absolute points on the exam, so I'm happy with that but am slightly disappointed that the rest of the class did well... With the relative grading, the result is that my grade for my absolute points wasn't what I had expected.

  3. Strategy
    I did well, but ran out of time towards the end. This is obvious when I look at the scores - I started out above average on the first couple of questions, and fell below average on the last few questions.

  4. Leading Organisations
    It was all thanks to group work. We had one written assignment, and a group exam, so I can take no credit for this.

  5. Managerial Accounting
    As I mentioned, I'm happy with the work done on the cases, so that's good. I guess studying for the exam might have been useful.

  6. Marketing
    Way, way, way, way below average. Apparently the white-trash segment strategy that I had needed some more refinement to be acceptable to our esteemed professor.
Oh well. My total GPA went down as a result of this. Maybe I should see it as good news though... It is still way above what my worst fears were when I went to pick up my P1 results...

Well, I guess that's what I get for gloating about how well we were doing on all our case assignments just before Christmas...

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