Before I did midterm one, I did the practice midterm/previous midterm available, and I was surprised to learn how pressured on time I was – I do not think I finished more than 50% before the 45 minutes ran out of the practice midterm. I also had a hard time to interpret the questions asked in the practice midterm. Therefore, I knew I had to hurry during the actual midterm, which helped me a lot.

I was able to give good/decent answers to all the questions, except I did not have time to come up with a model in the very last part of the midterm. Therefore, I was happy when this part was announced to be reattempted later in class. I did lose some marks due to lack of detail, and I definitely could have described my experiment more thoroughly. However, I was able to show that I knew and could apply the basic concepts, ideas and approaches we had learned so far, and my interpretation of the loopin-results went very well besides lack of time on the final question. I followed the suggestion on how to analyze the results, and it really helped.

I did use a lot of time on figuring out what exactly was asked in the questions, and I later learned that in general, the mark-numbers listed after each question is a good indicator of how detailed the answer should be. Overall, it went much better than the practice midterm I used in preparation to this first midterm, so I was satisfied with the result though I knew I could have done better.