ENEB Master Thread

[Kalas]

I finished the MBA and Big Data degrees by using the exam option. I decided to be a guinea pig for exam option for a few reasons.

1.If I go for the DBA from AMA, my MBA won't matter anyway.
2.Paper grading was already slow six months ago and trending in the wrong direction. From reading the last 15 or so pages it sounds like it's getting slower.
3.I questioned the validity of the grading criteria used for the papers. There has been inconsistency over the number of sources required, some graders favoring/requiring charts to be added, the tediousness of tracking down academic sources to cite to make obvious points and I'm sure others I'm not remembering off the top of my head. What is actually expected is not explained or outlined by ENEB anywhere. That is unacceptable if the expectation is for foreign students to write to Spanish academic standards. The exam format is more objective in the sense that I'm not writing to the preferences of the known graders and hope RNG gives me a grader that wants what I wrote.
4.From my perspective, all of the papers were extended busy work. I can honestly say the papers I wrote in econometrics class taught me a great deal. There wasn't a single paper in either degree I believed would make me more intelligent or competent than I was prior to writing the paper.
5.I wanted to have the experience of a comprehensive exam. I went in looking at it as taking the comps in a doctoral program and qualifying for the master's that way.

Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, you do NOT immediately get the degree after passing the exam. 7 business days after passing the exam they send you a link to a form to fill out with information they already have (name, email address, passport/ID/student number, etc.). A degree is supposed to be issued 60 business days after filling out the form. Whether your completion date is the date you pass the exam or whenever they get around to copy/pasting your name into a PDF is currently unknown.

I have passed both exams but have not yet received degrees/transcripts/ambassador program access. AFAIK no one here has actually received the transcript after passing the exam yet, so we do not know what the transcript will say at this time. Maybe ENEB doesn't know yet and that is the reason they're taking the 3-3.5 months to send it after the exam. People that took the exam the first day it was available should be getting their degrees/transcripts any day now.

The exam questions themselves were mostly direct, but some proofreading by an English speaker wouldn't hurt. Even if they're phrased poorly (in English) the meaning is usually clear. However, some could definitely use a little QA. I had one that was something along the lines of "What kind of data should we consider?" and that was the whole question. What's the context?!?! It would (hopefully) make more sense if it were a standard unit exam rather than a comprehensive exam. They randomize the choices and didn't take that into consideration when writing the answers. Option B for one of the questions was B and C are correct. Despite having almost half of their subjects in common, I only had a couple questions appear on both the MBA and Big Data exams. The Big Data exam was 85-90% questions that would not appear on an MBA exam.

Two hours is more than enough time to complete the exam. I went slow, researched some of the questions, ran to the bathroom for no. 2 and still finished in less than half that time.

I stand by my earlier criticisms of the program in general. The value you get from the program resides in how much effort you put into it beyond the books they provide. I've been through most of the masterclasses and they are of varying quality, but nothing I would go out of my way to recommend. The Big Data books were not as bad as the MBA books from an Engrish standpoint, but fell into a weird middle ground where they're not technical enough to be tech books and not business enough to be business books. Quality for English resources is either not a priority or the person signing off on it is not a native English speaker. The main issues are fixable and ENEB chooses not to fix them. There is also no greater academic value anywhere, despite the flaws. I got two degrees for about $530, depending on what the euro conversation rate was when I paid for the exams and how badly my bank screwed me on the currency conversion. I'd have a hard time saying that $10 per grad credit was a poor financial decision.

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I wonder if the practice multiple-choice exams refers to the quizzes that already exist or to some newly created practice exams?

I thought they were the quizzes that were already part of the course. If there is supposed to be another set of quizzes I never got them.