E.S.
I was reading this Engineering Survival Guide for UP freshies when I came across with this “Tips in Taking ES exams”. Well for those who aren’t familiar, ES stands for Engineering Science and is required for every engineering course..whether its GE or IE[instant engineer?(IE friends: no offense..got this from a GE student’s blog)]. As I was absorbing every word in that section of the booklet, I started to reminisce those sems when I took ES subjects.
It was in my 2nd sem in first year when I took my first ES, and that’s ES1. Well unlike Math series, where you have to take Math 17 first before 53, 54 and 55, only few ES subjects need prerequisites of other ES(you’ll know more about that later). Anyway, anyone can take ES 1 anytime in his stay in Melchor Hall(unless it’s a prereq of a major). It is a floating subject so you don’t have to take it just to advance to higher ES. Actually, I was not supposed to have ES 1 that sem ‘coz according to my curriculum, it’s for sophomores. But then I wanted to be advanced and I wanted to know how hard ES was, like what everybody’s saying.
So there, with all excitement I asked my dad to buy me 30-60 & 45-45 triangles, compass, eraser, pencil all from Rotring. Well, it was my first ES so I wanted everything to be the best! My first plate was like a joke…lettering. I even asked myself, “Do I study in UP?” haha!I swear! That was really stupid of me coz duh?..that was just the first exercise..Well anyway, as weeks went by, we began to use our triangles and compass and..our imagination. Yes, we had to picture in our mind an object in its 3-D and in different views: top, right-side and front. Honestly, I was very good in Multiview but a bit dumb in Isometric, which was the reason why I got a scary score of 62.5% in our first exam. But wait! First exam was definitely easier than the second where I got a shameful 32.5%. This time, the question was rephrased: “Does UP deserve me??” haha. I really felt so down and couldn’t imagine myself failing my first ES. Well, you might ask if I studied before the exams. Well, yeah I did! I even practiced answering sample exams but then, ES profs were just so eager to fail hundreds of us. They’d give problems they knew we wouldn’t be able to answer. That’s not so evil, huh? Anyway, I promised myself to do good in the 3rd exam. I even doubled the time I allotted for this course, which was pretty unfair for my other subjects..considering that “Engineering Drawing” is only a 2-unit course. Luckily, the 3rd exam topics(true lines, planes and edges) were more understandable than the previous ones. I totally grasped every concept and practiced every free time so as a result, I managed to get an unbelievable 86%. Together with my 82% final exam and “almost perfect” plates, I incurred a grade of 2.25 in ES 1. Well, not bad eh?
While my batchmates were busy with their Math 55 and Physics 72 subjects, I was already taking ES 11 during my 2nd sem in 2nd year. See, I was really ahead of them even in our sophomore year!(sorry if I brag too much) They say that Statics of Rigid Bodies, aka ES 11/”onse”, is one of the eng’g subjects which have super high mortality rate, and I could attest to that! Almost 75% of our class failed it..can you imagine that? If it weren’t for my 86% final exam score, I would have failed the subject, I swear! And I guess I was pretty fortunate to have Ma’am Sotto as my instructor. Though we had assignments and seatworks almost every meeting, though we had Q&A’s during discussions, though we always had an exact 1.5-hour(4-5:30pm) class, I still liked her. She’s not the typical UP prof who wouldn’t care if you pass or fail the course. In her class, you’d be forced to have advanced lessons simply because of her very effective teaching technique(i.e. roll call/Q&A). Anyway, these were my ES 11 exam scores from first to fifth L.E.: 46, 62, 48, 68, 50. Again, I don’t want to sound defensive, but I got scores like these not because I was not studying! The exams were really difficult or out-of-this-world, I should say. But then, the important thing is that I got a 2.5 in onse!(while others were singko!)
Passing ES 11 would give you the privilege to enter the worlds of dose and trese(it’s like your key to the doors of doom). Okay, this is what I was talking about. Most of you would think ES 12 is the prerequisite of ES 11. No, guys, you’re wrong! It’s not like Math series..you can take trese without having to pass/take dose. Or if you feel like making your sem miserable, you can take them simultaneously. Why not, huh? But in my case, I took ES 12 the following semester after my onse..3rd year 1st sem, when my batchmates were still dealing with ES 11. Dose, Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, is known to every engineering student being the most difficult ES. And yes, my exam scores in onse were definitely much higher than my dose L.E.’s. Actually, most of my classmates there were graduating and some are EEE students. See, if it weren’t for dose they’d probably graduated years back! how unfortunate..
Hmmm..but why do a lot of students fail ES 12?
…to be continued…
It was in my 2nd sem in first year when I took my first ES, and that’s ES1. Well unlike Math series, where you have to take Math 17 first before 53, 54 and 55, only few ES subjects need prerequisites of other ES(you’ll know more about that later). Anyway, anyone can take ES 1 anytime in his stay in Melchor Hall(unless it’s a prereq of a major). It is a floating subject so you don’t have to take it just to advance to higher ES. Actually, I was not supposed to have ES 1 that sem ‘coz according to my curriculum, it’s for sophomores. But then I wanted to be advanced and I wanted to know how hard ES was, like what everybody’s saying.
So there, with all excitement I asked my dad to buy me 30-60 & 45-45 triangles, compass, eraser, pencil all from Rotring. Well, it was my first ES so I wanted everything to be the best! My first plate was like a joke…lettering. I even asked myself, “Do I study in UP?” haha!I swear! That was really stupid of me coz duh?..that was just the first exercise..Well anyway, as weeks went by, we began to use our triangles and compass and..our imagination. Yes, we had to picture in our mind an object in its 3-D and in different views: top, right-side and front. Honestly, I was very good in Multiview but a bit dumb in Isometric, which was the reason why I got a scary score of 62.5% in our first exam. But wait! First exam was definitely easier than the second where I got a shameful 32.5%. This time, the question was rephrased: “Does UP deserve me??” haha. I really felt so down and couldn’t imagine myself failing my first ES. Well, you might ask if I studied before the exams. Well, yeah I did! I even practiced answering sample exams but then, ES profs were just so eager to fail hundreds of us. They’d give problems they knew we wouldn’t be able to answer. That’s not so evil, huh? Anyway, I promised myself to do good in the 3rd exam. I even doubled the time I allotted for this course, which was pretty unfair for my other subjects..considering that “Engineering Drawing” is only a 2-unit course. Luckily, the 3rd exam topics(true lines, planes and edges) were more understandable than the previous ones. I totally grasped every concept and practiced every free time so as a result, I managed to get an unbelievable 86%. Together with my 82% final exam and “almost perfect” plates, I incurred a grade of 2.25 in ES 1. Well, not bad eh?
While my batchmates were busy with their Math 55 and Physics 72 subjects, I was already taking ES 11 during my 2nd sem in 2nd year. See, I was really ahead of them even in our sophomore year!(sorry if I brag too much) They say that Statics of Rigid Bodies, aka ES 11/”onse”, is one of the eng’g subjects which have super high mortality rate, and I could attest to that! Almost 75% of our class failed it..can you imagine that? If it weren’t for my 86% final exam score, I would have failed the subject, I swear! And I guess I was pretty fortunate to have Ma’am Sotto as my instructor. Though we had assignments and seatworks almost every meeting, though we had Q&A’s during discussions, though we always had an exact 1.5-hour(4-5:30pm) class, I still liked her. She’s not the typical UP prof who wouldn’t care if you pass or fail the course. In her class, you’d be forced to have advanced lessons simply because of her very effective teaching technique(i.e. roll call/Q&A). Anyway, these were my ES 11 exam scores from first to fifth L.E.: 46, 62, 48, 68, 50. Again, I don’t want to sound defensive, but I got scores like these not because I was not studying! The exams were really difficult or out-of-this-world, I should say. But then, the important thing is that I got a 2.5 in onse!(while others were singko!)
Passing ES 11 would give you the privilege to enter the worlds of dose and trese(it’s like your key to the doors of doom). Okay, this is what I was talking about. Most of you would think ES 12 is the prerequisite of ES 11. No, guys, you’re wrong! It’s not like Math series..you can take trese without having to pass/take dose. Or if you feel like making your sem miserable, you can take them simultaneously. Why not, huh? But in my case, I took ES 12 the following semester after my onse..3rd year 1st sem, when my batchmates were still dealing with ES 11. Dose, Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, is known to every engineering student being the most difficult ES. And yes, my exam scores in onse were definitely much higher than my dose L.E.’s. Actually, most of my classmates there were graduating and some are EEE students. See, if it weren’t for dose they’d probably graduated years back! how unfortunate..
Hmmm..but why do a lot of students fail ES 12?
…to be continued…
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