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This is the room to pass the exams... In University of Kent you pass your exams in the Sport Center (Main and Small Hall) and other Halls...
When you are arrive in front of the Sport Center, you find a squared sheet on the doors: each colored sections correspond to different modules, in this sections there are different numbers which correspond to you Exam number, completely anonymous!
You have to show your ID card to two campus watches at the front door and then SILENCE.
So you try to find your table... When you have found your table, you discover a wonderful booklet which reminds you the exam procedure and you are waiting. Anybody try to open secretly the booklet to discover the question. English student respect each other always in silence (hummm this is completely different in France).
Then an off voice reminds you again the point that you have to respect (clean bottle, no food, do not leave during the first and the last half hour, cheating is forbiden, put your ID on the right hand side of your table, any rough note paper must be attached to the booklet, mobile are not allowed... blablabla...) and then, you are waiting... The first time you don't know if you can begin, if you can just have a look on your question, you look at the other students to know their reaction but they also look at you... Finally a BIP announces the beginning of the exam. A big noise of paper and caps rings out!
[TIC....TAC...TIC...TAC...]
My questions in Linguistic (Language, Variation and Change) were: 11.05.2012
1. Discuss the methodological problems in variationist sociolinguistics of using
EITHER class OR age OR sex as an extralinguistic variable.
2. What is standardization, and why does it occurs?
Well....... I have 2 hours to write something.
In Literature (Modernism): 14.05.2012
1. 'The stream of our thoughts is like a river. On the whole easy simple flowing predominates...But at intervals an obstruction, a set-back, a log-jam occurs, stops the current, creates an eddy and makes things move the other way' (William James, The Principle of Psychology). In the light of this quotation, examine the ways in which modernist proccupation with consciousness adds to the depth of character portrayal.
It was my question on the novelists. I chose to work on Virginia Woolf and D.H.Lawrence...
2. What values and meanings are attached to physical body in a modern era marked by war, technological advances and ontological doubt?
Question on poetry, I chose to work on T.S Eliot and Wallace Stevens.
This exam took place in 3hours without novels or poems, and you had to make some references... Dilemma!
In History (Anglo-Saxon England): 24.05.2012
1. Why did the Anglo Saxon kingdoms convert to Christianity so quickly?
2. 'A historian of Anglo Saxon England also has to be an acheologist, art historian and literary critic'. Discuss.
I was really impressed by English organisation! Oh I forgot. You do not have a bag, you just have your pens, water, and you must slide your jacket under your chair.... In France it's called "Arriver en touriste!"
When will this organisation arrive in France???
I will discover my marks around 22th June...
See you later!
Love <3
