Exams..

by snare&racket 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  snare&racket

  Exams are the devils creation, I am sure of this.Just after he knocked up cancer (what dya mean god did that one.. he couldnt have for he is so lovely and nicey!) I think he sat down and thought ok... whas next... then after forming religion he caught onto the idea of exams. "Oh thhhhe agony!" he hissed as he slithered through Gods throne room, his laugh echoing on the marble walls in Pleiades (right ascension 3.47.24 declination +24.7)....But nooooo that was not enough, he had to go one step further.. "Lets make the exams single best answer where the douche baggy students will have to choose one correct answer from a total of 5 correct answers, but with 4 less correct but probable answers." Oh what an evil bastard the dark lord Shai'tan is (I miss ya Robert Jordan).....

  Then someone created a terrible weakness in man (women - who are they) ... procrastination in revision. You feel like you have murdered a child after an hour of facebook. Oh the pain and guilt ! Why did god make us want to procrastinate and put things off....? Just seems so mean.... Wait ! Of course !.. That must have been Beelzebugger too ! After all , Procrastination and Masturbation sound the same and we all know Satan created that ! Wow the more i think about it.... it feels good at first, then comes the guilt and shame... then comes the cold hard reality "You just fu*ked yourself!".... yeah masturb.. I mean procrastination must be from the devil.....

  Ok well by carrying on this thread I am giving into the said vice so I best get back to my neuroscience lectures... dementia of all things.... I wonder if I can figure out the aetiology behind our "mentally diseased" state...

  Pray to Jehooha for me as the divinely created cortisol rushes through my arteries , dampened with higher and higher doses of man made drugs i.e. coffee, all the while holding in the divine urge to once more vacate ones empty bowels, which twitch in grandiose fear........ *TWITCH*

  I HATE exams.

  Still on the bright side, they are never as hard as the Rotten Review.... all hail Jehooha

  Snare :(
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  Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

  LOL

  I also have a hard time with the fact there are too many plausible answers. My teachers would always get so angry when I said I couldn't answer a question. They would say something like "it's multiple choice choose one" to which I would reply "but there's more than one right choice". By now they’re fuming because I won't be a good little girl and conform or they don't see the other "correct" choices and are pissed because I showed them up.

  Hmm sounds familiar, where have I seen this before? Oh yeah the GB!
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  Band on the Run

  It sounds like the bar exams. I would love to meet the author of the exams. Using your force to punish law students rather than practice law and help the civic good.

  Which is the BEST answer format drives me crazy.

  Does anyone note the strange phenomenon that if you take the bar exam of a state that no one wants to live in, your pass rate is about 90%. Some special magic hovers over New York and California b/c for some strange reason only about 75% pass. Popularity of the state and accuracy of bar exams can't possibly be related.
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  snare&racket

  Interesting BOTR ! Didnt know that. I guess a NY lawyer has to be pretty kick ass to pass... I'll keep that in mind.

  D-Lost Lamb.. its horrid isnt it. The fact that all answers are correct but one is more correct than the others is just torture, you cant use logic, just memory. With 220 hour long lectures, with on average 50 powerpoint slides each, all dense with info.... you have to just fill your short term memory with as much head aching facts you can...

  
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  Band on the Run

  I don't know any lawyer who did not pay a hefty fee for a commercial bar review course. They hire all sort of consultants. We werre told not to study in the beginning of the course. Next, intensive study for several weeks. No one expects you to retain much info two weeks after the exam. What is the point? The top tier law schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago have the highest flunk rates.

  Exams are no longer local affairs at your school. I took computer classes at my community college. No prof prepares a final or even a midterm. The publisher of the text prepares a commercial, snazzy test. All through my education, my profs disdained the textbook and taught material in a different direction. Another common practice, esp. in law school, was to focus on only a handful of cases to demonstrate crticial thinking skills. The thinking was that if we developed such skills we could master any subject on own, I learned Medieval torts, the no longer used civil writ system in merry old England. The exam assumes your prof taught the whole course.

  A nother difficulty is that the top schools don't teach the law of any particular jurisdictrion but the bar exam is state related. Local, fly by night schools with notorious reputations have higher pass rates as a result. The top students in my school flunked over mediocre students. We were taught to soar with sophiscticateed concepts. Fortunately, I chose my commercial class well. I only knew which paper to file in Cayuga county and one entire essay from taking the course. How did the commercial company know any of the content of the exam? I am so glad they did.