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Studying for the UFE isn't all smiles and sunshine

After a certain point, all the studying in the world will lead you to burn out.

But before you burn out, you'll simply get fed up with the ridiculous demands the exam places upon you.

Go and cheer up Jaycee who is hitting one of those walls you run into during UFE prep time.

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Running into the wall, getting a birdcage in the chest. Either is painful to experience.

You'll get over it - but it's good to vent and share the experience, as it's actually one of the best ways to let out the nerd-rage that builds up while studying for the UFE.

That, and yelling at your exam paper, or the fictional idiots you're advising.

In real life the business people you help have problems, but they don't engage in cartoonish super-villainy. Sometimes on the UFE you'll find just such an example. If you see people plotting a nefarious scheme to destroy their coffee franchisees using ethically questionable methods, you're supposed to call them on that!

I had fun marking up my exam question paper with my angry responses to the fools I had caught in their act of malfeasance.

Note of course that you don't hand in your question paper, you only hand in your "answer paper" which, as of 2009, is apparently only a USB stick.

It's interesting to note that handwriting your exam is now being killed as an option. An logical considering it's a silly approach to take unless you're the world's worst typist.

Now that the trivia is out of way, go cheer up Jaycee!

Posted: Sep 09 2009, 01:19 AM by Krupo | with 2 comment(s)
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j_cee said:

hehe...that was effective. too funny! you just made me sound like a kid robbed of her toy.  what a whiner huh...this is nothing compared to the poor people writing the UFE next week. I wonder how they're coping...

# September 9, 2009 10:27 PM

Krupo said:

Ah, you haven't been robbed of your toy, the exam prep has merely "borrowed" a fraction of your sanity and peace of mind.

Wait, I hope that doesn't make things sound worse than they actually are. ;)

The UFE writers will cope the way they always do. Relax this week - too late to do anything than some last minute 'busy work' - re-reading tricky sections of the handbook and going over the "problem areas" where they made mistakes.

And getting ready for massive partying next Thursday/Friday.

# September 9, 2009 11:04 PM