Wednesday, November 07, 2007

The Tossed Exam

Last Friday, I took a physiology exam that covered muscles.

When I walked into the classroom, I was extremely confident that I knew the material. Unfortunately, as I read the questions, I began to wonder if I had studied the correct chapters. Shoot, the correct text book, for that matter.

Let's just say the test was...in a word...RUDE.

Other students were just as numb as I was. One student actually approached the instructor and advised, "You didn't teach us any of this stuff."

To which the instructor replied, "I hope you were able to reason it out well."

I was sick to my stomach with anxiety. Come Monday morning, I didn't even want to know my score.

The instructor walked into the room and announced that the exam would be thrown out for everyone. Apparently, the scores were horrific.

Curious, I inquired into my score. It was brutal......68%

Of my peers, it was the high score.

There were lots of 50-somethings. One girl earned herself a 22%.

A 22%! There is no coming back from that. She said she should be embarassed, but it was just too ridiculous to be anything but funny.

With the test scores tossed, my grade still stands very comfortably at an A.

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