A further reply.

Dear XXX,

I have had our School Administrator look into this and can tell you what happened with respect to these administrative glitches. In the original request form lodged some months in advance of the exams by faculty members, Dr. Rodrigues-Neto had requested the details that were posted on Timetabling: 10 minutes reading and no additional materials permitted. Then when the exam was written and submitted some weeks later these details were changed on the front cover of the exam to 15 minutes reading and calculators allowed. This sort of discrepancy should be picked up by our internal review of these details but, in this case, they were overlooked because of the nature of Econ1100. As it is taken in conjunction with Macro 1 so it technically has two parts - the Macro 1 exam is part A and the Econ1100 paper is part B. The front page details for this exam were mistakenly compared to those for Econ1100 Part A - i.e. the Macro 1 requirements (15 minutes reading and calculators allowed).

So it was an unfortunate combination of errors and circumstances. Thank you for pointing this out to me - I do apologise for it and I shall make sure that it does not happen again.

Best wishes,

XXX

Well, I should have asked for extra special consideration marks seeing as it affected me "psychologically" (psst not that I knew how to do the paper in the first place) but whatever lah. I must have done horrigibly bad in my actual Macro paper to score higher in my Honours paper.

But I definitely must commend him for his actions, and prompt reply. Go Mr XXX!