Exams...

[AfterAscon]

I had a final year Uni exam last week; it was open book which required full harvard referencing.

We weren't allowed to take a book in, instead we had a research folder which had to contain research into companies and news articles for the exam. Its not merely enough knowing the answers in this exam, you need examples to back it up and then reference where you got the info from! FULL FUCKING HARVARD REFERENCING! 100% of module as well.

Questions were perfect for me however and I flew through the exam, I thought it was going to go horribly wronga.

I'm hoping I've just winged 40% so I dont have to retake the module.

:S

This is the best thing about Uni. You can get by being all apathetic towards the modules you hate because its fairly difficult to actually fail one if you put even a cursory amount of work in toward it, and that one module will only be worth at most %12ish (for me anyway, assuming its a third year module. 1st and 2nd where worth nothing and %5 respectively).

This was the case for the first two years for me. But last year is a world above.

 

[SextusMaximus]

GCSEs in a year or two, can't say I'm excited. Seeing my big sister revise, the amount of time it will take away from gaming... it's traumatising!

 

[BuyableDoor]

I had to describe the exact movements all parts in your throat and mouth make when you make a particular sound (s in this game). fuck you professor, I study English, not freaking Biology.
Needless to say, I got a 35% score that test.

 

[jboking]

Never failed an exam. Never even got below an 85% on one. I have struggled on some, but I work surprisingly well under pressure.

 

[Weaver]

I'm in Computer Science and in my final term at University. Tests are always a *****, but they're even harder when they test you on things that really don't lend them selves to pencil and paper. Writing code out on a piece of paper was simply not meant to happen.

 

[Bluebacon]

Got 50% of this year's modules worth of exams straight after easter. They're worth 25% of my total degree. It's going to be a fun holiday...

 

[GrinningManiac]

I take wordy subjects like Music, History, Politics and English Lit, so I like writing these things.

However, my friend, who is a certified GENIUS at EVERYTHING EVER, took his Chemistry test and only realised that there was a question on the back page once he was out of the exam hall

Most people who don't know him that well think he's a quiet, mumbling reclusive type. When I tell them that when he gets angry he is probably more terrifying than ANYTHING CONCIEVABLE, they tend not to believe me.

However, when he found out he'd missed 10% of the exam score on that page, they all saw Angry Neel at close range.

I think some of them had to have counselling

Also: STOP ENTICING ME, FOUL ESCAPIST! I HAVE COURSEWORK DUE FOR TOMMORROW, AND YET YOU KEEP DRAWING ME INTO INTRESTING CONVERSATIONS

 

[Ben7]

I remember my friends coming back from that exam, they were pretty down.


My history AS resit was pretty frustrating....

 

[Shenanigans176]

I'm 18 and I live in Britain. I just finished a Biology A2 exam and it was without a doubt the worst, most misrepresentative, baffling, cruel and horrible set of questions man could have conjured.

In America, we call these the AP Exams, run by CollegeBoard.
These are Advanced Placement Exams that occur in the beginning of May each year and cover a wide variety of subjects. I personally have taken my fair share, and they blow. The questions and style of questions are intended to actually fool you, and make you, well..., be wrong. The way they grade these exams are on a scale from 1 to 5, where 5 is the best. They don't do it by what you actually get, but by what percentile of takers you were in. On average, to get a 5, you need about a 65% on the exam.

In summary, yes, I have faced these horrific monsters before, and yes, I hate them just as much as you seem to...

 

[^=ash=^]

hey i just sat A2 Biology exam today aswell, it sucked ass, but from the question examples you gave i think it was a different paper :S who knows but yea it wasn't fun.

You probably sat the same one I did, AQA Unit 4 Biology. There was a question about a sticky white liquid in some tubes... The examiners call it "faunagoo".

yep thats the one XD i think the worst bit for me was the 5 questions. i was looking forward to something on the Hardy-Weinburg Principle because i did loads of revision for that but it didn't show

 

[Wadders]

I'm hoping I've just winged 40% so I dont have to retake the module.

:S

This is the best thing about Uni. You can get by being all apathetic towards the modules you hate because its fairly difficult to actually fail one if you put even a cursory amount of work in toward it, and that one module will only be worth at most %12ish (for me anyway, assuming its a third year module. 1st and 2nd where worth nothing and %5 respectively).

Yeah I'm only a first year, so my first year modules dont actually count towards my degree. I still need to get 40% overall to get into year 2 though. Somehow I think I'll manage that

 

[Pegghead]

Well I get pretty nervous for exams, but I slowly re-gather my cool as I get stuck in.

 

[J474]

hey i just sat A2 Biology exam today aswell, it sucked ass, but from the question examples you gave i think it was a different paper :S who knows but yea it wasn't fun.

You probably sat the same one I did, AQA Unit 4 Biology. There was a question about a sticky white liquid in some tubes... The examiners call it "faunagoo".

I did that exam as well...
Five f*cking pages on SHREWS!!!
And I'm sure we were never told about the anaerobic respiration of plants... >:|

 

[DemonicVixen]

Five f*cking pages on SHREWS!!!

Wow you must have had to write everything and more of what to know about Shrews! Colour, how many legs, how it lives, where it lives, what it eats, even why it eats!... You poor thing.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I've never really had a problem with tests myself. I have never taken any exams outside of the United States of course, which may be a part of the problem, though I have taken some surprisngly tough ones in my time.

In any course in high-school, there seemed to be a rule that if you had not explicitly seen an example of something during the course you could not be asked a question regarding it. In college, this prohibition dissapears and tests improve as a result. I've personally found that if I actually understand the material, I can deal with examples that I've never seen before just fine as the underlying principles remain the same. That said, my major generally focuses on the study of math versus any of the less soundly understood areas of science.

 

[GeneralGrant]

Hmm never really had issues with exams to be honest.

Of course, it sounds like all the truly evil exams aren't in the US so I guess I luck out by living here yet again.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

history exam, I thought it said how far did technology affect the role of women in the workplace 1860-1930, it actually said 1860-1914. Most of my information was after 1914 so I'm going to fail for sure. Why such a fucking arbitrarily chosen date? It's bullshit is what it is.

But on the plus side i never have to do female suffrage and suffragettes ever again!

most likely it refered to the industrial revolution, but yeah it should have been a little clearer. I had problems mostly with math exams where I solved them using different methods and I had a teacher that failed me for this, even when after I checked the results with him, I presented a complain to the principal and got my grade corrected

 

[Zersy]

Makes you wonder , "How the heck did mom and dad get through this shit !"