From: Ali Sheeraz Mehdi (ali.mehdi@atosorigin-me.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 04:29:21 ART
Hi
All the replies to this are enough to approach Proctor. I will just share my
experience.
First of all just take them as normal human beings, they have their families
like you and at some point in time they also went for labs like you are
approaching towards it. The only thing which makes him superior during lab
is his knowledge towards the area where you will be examined with your
expertise, if you have that knowledge, you will definitely find him very
much friendly.
Second and the most important thing is how to present your questions. Always
come up with options which you have in your mind for the solution of an
issue. By telling him that I have these options to solve the issue, he can
guess that the guy has understanding of the technology and just confused for
the best one, he might indicate you how to approach towards it, still it
will be your responsibility to choose the correct one, but you must be
knowledgeable enough to take his guidance in right direction.
Frequency (to go to proctor) doesn't matter as long as you are considering
the points above. That's what my experience is; might not be enough as I
went there only once :-)
Thanks and Regards
Ali Sheeraz Mehdi
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Alex
De Gruiter
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:42 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Proctor questions
Hello,
I am looking for the best advice on how to approach the proctor.
I tried 2 completely different approaches for each of my labs. In the
1st I asked a lot of questions and received persistent negative
feedback. So I posted a similar question to this one after the 1st lab,
and I was torn down in flames by certain people who stated that I
"obviously knew nothing"; if I had asked clear, reasonable questions, I
would receive a response.
So I spent time between lab attempts better learning the technologies,
and in the 2nd lab asked very few questions. I basically ignored the
proctor - on the few occassions that I did ask questions, I was met with
a similar response to my 1st attempt.
I am now faced with a dilemma. Due to locality there is one location
that proves particularly practical in my endeavour to sit my next, and
hopefully last, exam. The trouble is that if there are any areas of
ambiguity... And lets face it, there are going to be at least 1 or 2
areas of ambiguity, even small areas, in the lab... I honestly am lost
when it comes to getting clarification from the proctor.
So my question is: how can I structure a question in such a way that the
response is useful? And, perhaps, should I simply not bother asking any
questions at all?
Advice appreciated.
Alex
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