This Monday commences the last unit test series of our B.E. (CSE).Three days and then done. Model tests are a mere formality, so technically this is the last set of internal exams that we will be writing.
I have never liked these tests. In most cases we will be given the questions and we will be asked to learn up the answers exactly as they are in the textbook. The more precisely we are able to reproduce the contents of the textbook, the higher we score. Most teachers prefer our using local author books. But I detest them. Especially for core Computer Science subjects, the prescribed foreign authors are the best. I can never understand how students study from the local author books. The English is so bad, that I get a headache trying to wade through all the grammatical errors. Is it not easier to study from the prescribed foreign author books that are not only lucidly written but also well organized and technically sound?
Anyways, coming back to the subject of my post, I am just happy that we are this much closer to the end of this semester.
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i like local authors for getting known the concepts easily instead of straining a lot from the foreign authors. Ya i am also very happy to write my last unit test.
Concepts are more easily grasped from foreign authors, if read thoroughly.
Foreign authors are THE best to get a detailed knowledge.But since most of us* have the habit of studying in the 11th hour, local authors seems easy. They are just ^c + ^v from the prescribed books but in a smaller portion, so one might feel easier to study in that. Otherwise these local authors are mere crap.
It happens usually that some of my friends will study all the five units from a local author whereas i will be knowing just 2.5 to 3 units that too after days and days of reading the huge foreign author. Cha !! But anyhow i will manage to write some convincing blah blah blah for the rest two units. :)
*Not applicable to you.
Prescribed texts (Indian or foreign) are mostly good. But yea, being the lazy bum that I am, I never do more than 3 units in any subject and never write more than 4, 16 marks in any paper.
But there is a price to be paid for using prescribed authors. The person correcting your paper won't know what you have written and hence won't award you marks. I remember using Millman & Halkias for circuits. I was expecting to score some 70 on 80 and got 40 odd instead. :(
Anyone use Beer and Johnston ? :D Lovely book, but chances are ull flunk AU exams.
But then losing a few marks is worth learning from good books.
For Comp Sci, I've been studying only from prescribed authors and have managed to score alright.
It's usually for some problems-based papers that I am forced to use Indian authors since there are not sufficient problems in the prescribed books.
I don't know about EE though.
see that phrase "if u read thoroughly" . how can an engineering student read like that.
@Gany
I can dude. But not for unit test n all.
and who said this wil be last unit test. Il fail again n write re-test. n i don care bot authour which i use while copying unit test. Smaller the content the better.
Well unit test is not applicable to you! You score good always :D
Was that comment meant for me or Hari, Vinod?
Of course you Ms.
Okay,Mr.Visu.
Visu got it right yaar. You can't be compared with others ever. ROFL
Nothing relates me here instead i make a comment!!!!!!
Yes, sometimes one just does not have an opinion.That is entirely acceptable.
Oh, and apparently they are called Nitwits. :D
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