Dear IMCDS students,
I trust you are enjoying your stay in Tokyo at present. I will only take a few minutes of your time to share with you the latest info on our final exam on Thursday next week (remember?).
As you know, following a late email from some of you, I offered to postpone our final exam one more time until a later date in June, but there was none available and Ms Ben Miled and Ramdani have confirmed our final exam of Thursday 5 June 2pm-5pm in room F636 at the Sorbonne, which is now final. I also remind you (just a reminder) that this will be the non-negotiable date for the oral presentations of the two last groups: there will be no postponing of those either.
That said, however, I will take into account the fact that you will be back from Tokyo only two days earlier by announcing the following:
1) I promise I will take a benevolent approach to grading your exams. And I will make good on this promise.
2) I have reduced the length of the exam itself to 1,5 hour (90 minutes) instead of two hours by reducing expectations compared to our S1 exam: there will be no voc nor grammar sections, only a shortened comprehension section with a text no longer than two pages (instead of five) (9 points), and an essay similar to S1 in length (11 points).
This shortened exam will also leave more time to do presentations as well.
Duly noting that you will have less time to prepare for the exam because of Tokyo etc., I recommend only that you read or reread the excerpts from Cathy O'Neil and Shoshana Zuboff books posted on our EPI (Texts D and E) which you already know about, and watch the fifty-minute video I had talked to you about and which I have now posted in the same EPI section.
This shouldn't take much more than two hours of your time in total, which in my opinion isn't insuperable, once again, taking everything into consideration.
Wishing you a fruitful and pleasant discovery journey in Japan, see you at 2pm at the Sorbonne on 5 June;
Best wishes,
Cyril Selzner