Importance of writing both the sections

Let us assume that you haven’t studied at all. Now you will be able to finish at the most 3 or 4 units. I would suggest that you do 2 units from the 1^st section and 1 or 2 units from the 2^nd section. Reason for this is,

We usually spent nights on discussing how the question papers must be checked by the university? The most common possibilities that came out were,

1. Section 1 and Section 2 must be checked by different teachers. Now, how does this has to be so? If it was not so, then they would have been collecting both our papers (Section I and Section II) at the same time. But, they make different bundles of both these sections. So, these papers must be going to two different teachers for checking.
2. Now let’s say you have written only one section, you studied only 3 units and you wrote the whole 1^st section very much perfectly. Even then the examiner may feel unsatisfied with some of your answers (which happens for sure, else toppers would have been scoring more than 90 marks in most subjects). So he ends up giving you 40 marks.
3. Now, if you haven’t studied anything from section 2, so you leave the section 2 paper blank. That examiner gives you 0 and you end up getting 40 in all for that subject.
4. Better why take that risk. Instead study the 3^rd unit from section 2. Now let’s see what happens in this case.
5. You write the questions for first 2 units in section 1 perfectly well. Let’s say you have attempted 34 marks questions. The examiner for section 1 gives you around 27 to 28 marks for good answer. Remember the upper limit for the examiner for the paper is 40 to 42 (approx) – which is for full attempt and well written answers. While giving you 27,28,29,30 he won’t feel that these are too much, out of bound.
6. Now, we come to the section 2 part, you have studied only 1 unit well, you write approx 16 to 18 marks questions on that unit. Now the examiner checking your paper sees that you have attempted only 16 or 18 marks question. (Remember that for passing in a subject you would need 40 combined from both the sections).  In such situation don’t you think the feeling of being merciful would rise in the examiner’s mind? So he must feel pity and give you 14 marks out of 16 or 18 for the same. Now with the first section fetching you 27 and the second section getting 14 your score sums up to 41. You can easily say, ’I haven’t passed with 40’.
7. This was an average scenario. Now just imagine that you are lucky enough that day. You can score anything between 42 to 45 for studying just 3 units. Calculate yourself what will happen if you are able to study 4 units, 2 from section 1 and other 2 from section 2 before going to exam.

I am pretty sure that this should work. Considering the emotional aspects of the examiner and assuming the process of giving marks as an exponential function with respect to attempts made (especially when university topper also never fetches 100 marks), I think I can mathematically prove it. :-)

Now all this happens when the examiners for both the sections are different or at the least the same person is checking them at different time. Else it does not matter and you are still safe.