As part of my MEng course in CES at university I study various business classses along side my engineering and science subjects. This year it's accounts a subject I'm finding tedious in itself but the point of this post is about business subjects in general. What I find hard about them is not necessarily the fact that I have to right a lot to answer the questions, but that in most cases there isn't a definitive right answer. In my other classes at least the vast majority of questions have a specific answer whether it is a numerical figure at the end of a calculation or explaining a concept or solution to a problem. With these questions I have a feeling of confidence about my answer - I know it or I don't. What I don't like with business is writing down what I think may be the answer and not knowing if it is long/detailed enough, or in some cases the answer to the right question. By right question I mean another factor which troubles me about business class exams - it's the only (group of) subject(s) I know of where you don't answer the question they ask. Maybe these problems arise from poor interpretation skills but there has been many a time whe I've been seeking help about how to answer a business related question and the first thing the lecturer/teacher/tutor says is "What they mean by that question is..." If that's what they want to ask why can't they phrase it in plain english?