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Class,

I will be around in my office 2118 (AC2, L1) most of today daytime - 10 am to 5 pm or so. Will break for lunch sometimes. So feel free to drop in anytime I am free. Easier that way than having to manage multiple calendar meeting requests and times.

Many folks have their mailboxes full it seems like, judging by the # of undeliverables I am getting.

Anyway, here are some of the emails sent out recently: (with some value added commentary as appropriate)

Hi all,

Am copy pasting below the Instructions sheet at the cover of the exam paper.

"ISB
MKTR END TERM EXAM
2009-10
General Instructions
• This exam is a closed book and closed notes exam. You have two hours for the exam.
• There are Two parts to this exam: Sections – A, & B. There should be 19 different numbered pages in the answer booklets (excluding Instructions Sheet & Evaluator’s Mark Sheet). Check your copy and request for a new exam booklet if you do not have 19 pages.
• Please read the ENTIRE question before starting to answer.
• MCQs are all SINGLE answer only. Choosing more than one answer will not result in any point awarded.
• You will be allowed Two A4 papers as Cheat Sheet for the exam with notes allowed on both sides, which is to be Hand Written Only. (No photocopies). No rough sheets will be provided.
• Use pencil only to mark OMR (Section A) and Pen to answer descriptive questions (Section B). There are a total of 40 points for the End-term exam. All intermediate steps must be shown in the space provided with individual questions.
• The exam is completely self-explanatory. The academic associates or faculty will not answer any questions during the exam. If you think something is not right or feels something needs to be clarified, make an assumption and proceed. Please make sure that you clearly state any assumptions you make.
• Be brief and to the point. Writing irrelevant arguments may lead to negative points.
• Please write legibly.
• You must observe the honour code at all times."


Hope this helps.

Suhdir

Ok. Shri Sreenath wrote that instruction set and am counting on his experience to have covered all the bases. If not, make common-sensical assumptions as necessary. If there are still things to clarify, let me know. Use the blog comments page preferably so that the entire class can also be freed from these doubts.

Another email I got:

Hi Professor,

Could you please share solution to the 4 quick fires on 4 khans in last session, MDS and Conjoint?

Thanks,

And had to be honest here - the answers if any to these Quickfires turned out to more involved and complicated than I had first (hurriedly) thought (or so it seemed to me judging by the response in Section D).

Hi A,

There are no real *solutions* to those quickfires that I could think of. The variation in what is acceptable based on what is assumed is simply too large. Besides, my own familiarity with conjoint and MDS is not so high that I could unambiguously judge assumptions and answers for these ones.

Sudhir

Then questions like this:

Dear Prof,
Can you please also let us know which sessions we need to cover for the exam ?

Regards,
S

To which my email to the class says:

Hi all,

Pls refer to the email below.

The MCQs will be based on those chapters. The non-MCQs can be based on anything covered in the lectures. But yes, they will emphasize the quant models we have covered.

Shall putup some sample non-MCQ questions today (Saturday), the MCQ questions will be similar to what you have seen in the quizzes so far.

P.S. shall fwd to the entire class so that there is no repetition of the same Q&A.

Sudhir

And more on a similar slant:

Dear Prof,

You have mentioned that the MCQs will come only from chapters 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 15. So just wanted to confirm that we only need to study slides for only lectures 3,7,6 (lectures corresponding to the mentioned chapters).

Thanks and Regards,

V

My reply:

I guess so.

The AAs have prepared the MCQs have been based on publisher’s question banks for those chapters. I have vetoed/modified MCQs that were not covered/mentioned in class slides.

Hope that clarifies.

Sudhir

Chalo, hope that takes care of most of the questions on this front.

Sudhir