We received our P1 examination results today. Attached to our original examination answer booklets, INSEAD provides a summary of how we fare against the rest of the classes taught by the same professor for each module, ie, our Z-score in a normal distribution against the mean Z-score of 2.50.
Most celebrate to have survived the challenge of P1, only to be reminded by our professors that P2 examination is only 1 -month away...
Experience from P1 seems to suggest that, while some will attempt through all creative methods to persuade the rest not to study, thus creating an ideal 'Nash Equilibrium' that could benefit everybody, the actual defect rate was expectedly high.
As much as a Prisoners' Dilemma is undesirable, in practise, would be commonly found in the real world.
P2 is so far a period of enjoyable learning, albeit being a tough period. Having gone through the initial adjustment period, INSEAD obviously wants to push our learning curve steeper again to justify our reputation of an intensive and top 1-year programme. Aptly commented by a Process & Management Operation professor, the intensity of assignment deadlines and complexity of cases would force us towards full capacity (bottleneck), ideally propelling us towards better teamwork, since it would be virtually impossible for a 'normal' individual to accomplish all tasks without external sharing of workload and internal re-distribution of scarce (time) resource.
In our learning here, collaborating is always preached as a better way than screwing up others in handling many situations. It is then up to us to digest and hopefully apply in our lives after INSEAD.
Anyhow, most begin to enjoy the classes more, and look forward to electives in P3.
Most modules appear synchronized in content to train us a better business intuition to handle complicated scenarios. The qualitative + quantitative trainings make what we learn in classes look a lot more applicable in real world. No longer were the days when everything seem to be a mysterious matrix of figures.
