Today I wrote my first exam at university in experimental physics. The topic was classical mechanics (Kinematics, Dynamics, Energy conservation and stuff). I really cannot say whether it went good or not. There were 6 problems to be worked on within two hours. I spent the first twenty or so minutes on the first one without getting anywhere and then continued with the rest which went more or less well (at least I had some pretty logical approaches which lead me to solutions at the end, even if those differ from those of a friend of mine). During the last fifteen minutes I have gone back to problem one and solved it straight-ahead which was fine, but I didn't have the time to work on the last problem then. However, only 12.5 out of 30 points are required to pass (with 25 being enough to get full marks). More to come when the results have been published, probably Tuesday.
The exam took place at 15:30 which was quite late in my opinion since I could not concentrate as much as I normally can in such situations when writing mornings. However, the problems seems to be that those big auditoriums in which the exams are written are already occupied most of the time and we have to take what we get. This is probably also why I have to write the next examination saturdays (16. decemeber in theoretical physics), but at least at 10:00 in the morning.
Update: I now have the results for both exams. The good thing is, I have got more than 50% in both of them (19.5 out of 25 in experimental physics, 18.5 out of 28 in theoretical physics), the bad thing is that I thought I had done better (at least in theoretical physics). Anyway, to pass we need 50% out of two exams (in each subject; the next ones are in february) so I have a rather good starting point.
