Derp exam is derp
Mar. 4th, 2010 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
renrenren3I need some "derp" icon, because... derp, because.
So.
Today I just took the most awesome test ever. First consider I'm a math student. My uni is considered quite good for math, so the level of many courses is ridiculously hard. Like, I studied three goddamn weeks for the Geometry B exam and still managed to fail. Which is considered normal, many people in my year still haven't passed Geometry B.
Today, the exam was Graph Theory. The course was, well, calling it absurd would not be enough. Nobody could understand a word of whatever was said in class. My own notes consisted in a series of formulas and uncoordinated words jotted down randomly, plus many question marks. Five or six different books were mentioned in class, none of which quite covering all of the theorems mentioned. Even our resident note-taker (a genius who writes in this awesome curly script and whose notes are often more clear than the lessons themselves) admitted that he hadn't understood many parts and his own notes were incomplete. Said notes were still photocopied and passed around.
A couple of people decided not to take the exam because they weren't feeling ready. So, this morning a dozen of us assembled for the exam. Written part, three exercises to solve in two hours. We had never seen a sample exam paper because it's the first year this professor holds the course and last year it was just oral. The exam itself was not in a classroom because the math department only has a couple of classrooms (we're usually pushed around the engineering dept). The exam was in the meeting room in the math dept. There were two long tables and we sat around them. We were literally elbow to elbow. The professor noted that there wasn't much space and said "Try not to be too obvious when copying from each other."
Then he wrote the exercises on the blackboard. Apparently he hadn't even brought exam papers. He went and stole some blank pages from the photocopier for us to write on, but I think it'd have been okay if I'd given him the answers on the back of my train ticket. The exercises were ridiculously easy. I swear, some of Professor Layton's puzzles on graphs were more taxing. The exam would rank about 50 picarats for all questions.
Now, I didn't know the answer to exercise 3 because I'd skipped the part on random graphs completely. But hey, it's okay, because five minutes into the exam the professor left to talk with a student from another course, pretty much leaving us free to discuss, come up with the best answer for all problems and write it down. I'm not kidding. We all wrote down the same exact things, and we all got top score save for a girl who said that she didn't know how to do two of the three exercises and she didn't want to copy both. She copied only the second one, solving two exercises out of three, and still got 21 out of 24.
Tomorrow I could opt to also take the oral exam to raise my score, or accept my vote of 24 out of 30. Which is quite low since my average for all courses is about 27, but I'd feel ashamed if I got a higher vote for this joke of an exam. I already feel ashamed as it is.
I-I'd like to apologize to everyone who seriously studied Graph Theory and spent time doing research and demonstrating theorems! ._________. I'm sorry!
So.
Today I just took the most awesome test ever. First consider I'm a math student. My uni is considered quite good for math, so the level of many courses is ridiculously hard. Like, I studied three goddamn weeks for the Geometry B exam and still managed to fail. Which is considered normal, many people in my year still haven't passed Geometry B.
Today, the exam was Graph Theory. The course was, well, calling it absurd would not be enough. Nobody could understand a word of whatever was said in class. My own notes consisted in a series of formulas and uncoordinated words jotted down randomly, plus many question marks. Five or six different books were mentioned in class, none of which quite covering all of the theorems mentioned. Even our resident note-taker (a genius who writes in this awesome curly script and whose notes are often more clear than the lessons themselves) admitted that he hadn't understood many parts and his own notes were incomplete. Said notes were still photocopied and passed around.
A couple of people decided not to take the exam because they weren't feeling ready. So, this morning a dozen of us assembled for the exam. Written part, three exercises to solve in two hours. We had never seen a sample exam paper because it's the first year this professor holds the course and last year it was just oral. The exam itself was not in a classroom because the math department only has a couple of classrooms (we're usually pushed around the engineering dept). The exam was in the meeting room in the math dept. There were two long tables and we sat around them. We were literally elbow to elbow. The professor noted that there wasn't much space and said "Try not to be too obvious when copying from each other."
Then he wrote the exercises on the blackboard. Apparently he hadn't even brought exam papers. He went and stole some blank pages from the photocopier for us to write on, but I think it'd have been okay if I'd given him the answers on the back of my train ticket. The exercises were ridiculously easy. I swear, some of Professor Layton's puzzles on graphs were more taxing. The exam would rank about 50 picarats for all questions.
Now, I didn't know the answer to exercise 3 because I'd skipped the part on random graphs completely. But hey, it's okay, because five minutes into the exam the professor left to talk with a student from another course, pretty much leaving us free to discuss, come up with the best answer for all problems and write it down. I'm not kidding. We all wrote down the same exact things, and we all got top score save for a girl who said that she didn't know how to do two of the three exercises and she didn't want to copy both. She copied only the second one, solving two exercises out of three, and still got 21 out of 24.
Tomorrow I could opt to also take the oral exam to raise my score, or accept my vote of 24 out of 30. Which is quite low since my average for all courses is about 27, but I'd feel ashamed if I got a higher vote for this joke of an exam. I already feel ashamed as it is.
I-I'd like to apologize to everyone who seriously studied Graph Theory and spent time doing research and demonstrating theorems! ._________. I'm sorry!
