Bismillahirrahmanirrahim~ I don’t know where to start, but
I will try to make it short and sweet *smile*. About a month ago from 22th –
30th April 2014, I sat for the Phase II Stage I (P2S1) competency exam, an
important exam before we can proceed to the final year. How was it?
Alhamdulillah, praise to the Almighty Allah, it went well for me. I must say the
stress that I had during the exam week was far greater than any other school or
college exams that I ever experienced. I’m just an average medical student from
Melaka-Manipal Medical College. Other medical students from other medical
school probably have different experienced during their college/university
exams.
When we started seventh semester,
I said this to myself “I have to get serious from now on, start making my own
notes, and do well in every end-posting-exam (EOP).” I was doing very well in
every posting except for one posting in which I got a very low marks for the
bed-side long case exam. When I looked at my marks for that posting, I have
this thought, “This is not fair!! I deserved more than that!!” My group mate
suggested that I go and meet the faculty in charge of our batch and talk about,
in which I didn’t go. I remember one of the lecturers said, “You are going to
need all the luck that you can get during your P2S1, so don’t waste it on getting
a proxy, or cheating during you EOP”
In our college, if you didn’t do
well in any one of your postings in fourth year, you have to work harder for
the university exam P2S1. Normal candidates if they fail in one of the clinical
component of the university exam, they can still reseat for the exam after a
month, but for those who don’t do well in their EOP they cannot afford to fail
in any one of the clinical components because they will straight away fail and
have to take the exam again in 6 months time.
For that reason in my case I was
the “special” candidate. When I think about it over again, I should be
grateful. Because of that title “special”, it motivated me to work harder for my
university exam. I started making my own notes more vigorously, making my study
plan and followed it. The only thing that I didn’t do is have my own study
group. No matter how many hours you spend your time on studying alone, there
will be something that you overlook. Alhamdulillah during the exam week, I had
a small discussion with my housemates, and from that discussion I realized
things that I didn’t know so I read about those things.
To be continued…
A.Khairul
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