Covering subjects from Accounting to Strategic Decision Science, Economics to Marketing, there was a fair volume of content to get to grips with before the examinations and, as always, the biggest challenge was finding the time to do this. I found weekday pre work coffee with several dozen old-fashioned hand drawn mind maps worked best for me (modernised slightly by reviewing them on my iPad), as did spot quizzes from my team at work on the bewildering array of financial ratios needing memorised. Time will tell if the mind maps worked well enough, with results due in the next month or so.
What was most different from sitting degree finals all those years ago is what happened at the end of the last exam at 12.30 on a gloriously sunny Monday. There was no afternoon picnic in the sunshine. No celebratory lunch at Cranfield's legendary pub, 'The Social'. Within the hour we were straight into a four day warehouse project management simulation knee deep in post its. Times have indeed changed....
Update 2013: The exams were fine. If you put the hours in with revision, you generally got the results out.
Top tip: get in the habit of writing by pen. Six hours of writing in one day is enough to make your arm fall off.
