Journal #7754
Posted 12 years ago2012-04-19 22:46:00 UTC
Anyone else know that feeling when you're told to do problems from previous exam papers to practice for an upcoming exam?
And then you start doing them in order of least recent to most recent?
And you're doing some of the older ones and you think "These questions are pretty awesome, they're challenging enough but they work out nicely in the end and they're not overly difficult"?
And then when you get to the recent exams you realise that for the past few years the lecturer has replaced these questions with ones that don't work out nicely at all and you end up covering pages and pages with numbers and ridiculous fractions and decimals?
And you realise it will be like that in your exam and it's going to suck balls?
I know that feeling.
And it is bad.
I just wanted to let off some steam in a rant. I hate it when they do this, the exam becomes less of an actual test of your knowledge of the subject at hand and more a game to see if they can make you forget or misplace one of the numbers somewhere and end up screwing the whole thing up.
And then you start doing them in order of least recent to most recent?
And you're doing some of the older ones and you think "These questions are pretty awesome, they're challenging enough but they work out nicely in the end and they're not overly difficult"?
And then when you get to the recent exams you realise that for the past few years the lecturer has replaced these questions with ones that don't work out nicely at all and you end up covering pages and pages with numbers and ridiculous fractions and decimals?
And you realise it will be like that in your exam and it's going to suck balls?
I know that feeling.
And it is bad.
I just wanted to let off some steam in a rant. I hate it when they do this, the exam becomes less of an actual test of your knowledge of the subject at hand and more a game to see if they can make you forget or misplace one of the numbers somewhere and end up screwing the whole thing up.
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If I had the most of the process right but I misplaced a few things it was just a few points off.
I got a load of D's so got bumped down to Foundation level papers for maths, science and english, the max grade for which is a C.
I got C's in all those subjects because the actual exams were a breeze. I could have probably walked away from the Higher papers with A / B grades.
Grrr.
(Note: Not that it mattered, I got into college and then bollocksed everything up there anyway)
(Notey Note: Not that that mattered either. I still got the job I wanted.)