oh, if only exams are open book. i mean, what's the point of having exams when they do not really test one's abilities? what if you're lucky enough that the only two topics that you briefly skimmed through are what comes out? and you're so proficient in the others that do not. no acknowledgement of your hard work at all. only a shake of the head, a stern smile and a warning: you need to do better. scary what our world has become... exams should really just test understanding of concepts, and not MEMORISING. i mean, it's not my fault if i'm born to remember less right? but its like, in an exam conscious society like this one, we're being condemned. condemned to fail if you cannot remember how to draw the mechanism for SN1 and SN2 reactions during exams...