Hard test
I just had a short conversation with a friend who recently finished a university test. And two of the sentences I found just too amusing to let slip quietly into oblivion.
Just to make sure that these won’t give the totally wrong impression, the friend is quite an intelligent person, usually. I suspect this is more because the subject matter of that test was totally outside my friend’s interest. From the sample questions I heard, the test was absurdly easy, but that’s entirely not the way my friend, and the other classmates, apparently saw it.
And please notice that these were both said in an highly indigent tone.
Quote number one was in an attempt to explain to me why the test was hard, despite me thinking that the material should have made it very easy:
They didn’t ask us exactly about the things they said in class. To answer these questions we had to think about them.
Ah, a shame about this foul academic practice in which students are required to understand the material, instead of just parroting back what the lecturer said in class, isn’t it?
The second quote is from an attempt to demonstrate that not only was the test unduly difficult, but that the university made the students take it under uncommonly hard conditions:
And they didn’t even let us copy. I mean, at all!
I wonder if they have a case to appeal to the dean. That’s very cruel, and hardly fair…
February 27th, 2006 at 13:43 EET | Categories: Education, Humour |
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