Wednesday, December 14, 2005

And the quarterback is toast

Tonight, I bombed on two of my final exams. I think it was 1 part choke-city and 1 part unfair testing practices.

I guess the math exam wasn't so unfair, although it was comprehensive. I was ill prepared and had a major brain fart to boot. Anything we covered more than a month ago was a total loss. It was ok, I only needed a 20 on the exam to maintain my A... I think I might have managed that.

Ecnomics is another subject, literally. This was a bunch of shit. 15 chapter in 15 weeks... 3 tests. You bomb one, you are in the crapper. To make it worse, test 1 covered 5 chapters, test 2 covered 3, as you guessed test 3 covered the other 8. We covered those 8 chapters in 2 class periods. To mkae it even worse, the chapter we covered the quickest, well second quickest as we covered on in less than 7 minutes, was the one most of the test was based on. I was prepared to calculate Marginal Propencities and use the Market Multipliers... naturally they weren't on the test. Ok, some sample questions.

Choose the answer that mostly closely represents the correct answer:

1. The buttons on Mickey Mouse's trousers could best be described as:
A. Abnormally larger for a mouse to wear.
B. Equally spaced on the front of his trousers when viewed from no more than 30 degrees.
C. White with two holes each and made of plastic.
D. Useless as they do not support his pants nor fasten them around his waist.

2. If you were to decide that you wanted to type, which one of these postures would you choose?
A. Laid back in the chair with a single finger on each hand out stretched to hunt and peck your answer.
B. The proper stenographers posture and hand posisiton.
C. An erect posture looking over the shoulder of my secretary.
D. Next to the printing press so to not get ink on me when the print is made.

3. Which best describes the color blue?
A. Not green
B. The color of the 2 ball in pool.
C. Known as azul in Mexico and Spain.
D. Comes in shades like Navy, Royal and SeaFoam.

4. The Moore County Sheriff department needs to purchase a new police cruiser. The money used to buy this car should come from?
A. The bank
B. The mayor
C. The state
D. Under Mr. Krabs' matress.

5. (Actual Bonus Question) Spell E-C-O-M-O-N-I-C-S.... No, I did not misspell it... that is how it was on the test.

I only needed a 3 on the exam to pass and a 30 to get a C. The way I felt when I left tonight I would not say that it is outside the realm of possibilty to say I got a 2.5.

Well, I finally got an office yesterday. It is affectionatly called the fish bowl. I will take pictures and post them. You will see why.

Well, I am off.

Quick note... I can not run spell checker because it refreshes the page, which means I will lose all I have typed. I know this becuse I have already done it twice. For those you find correct spelling important keep this in mind...

The hanum mnid can raed wathveer is witetrn as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lterets are in the rhgit pcale.

5 Comments:

Blogger Kel said...

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10:41 AM

 
Blogger Kel said...

I sailed through most of college on the basis of my answers to stupid bonus questions like "spell ECOMONICS" -- imagine how I'd answer that one!

And, yes, isn't it cool that the hmuan mnid can raed ayntinhg taht satrts and edns wtih the crorcet lteetr? But isn't taking the time to make sure your first and last letters are correct just as easy/hard as double checking the whole word in the first place? ;)

(Never mind that there are just some words that God just doesn't want you to be able to spell on demand. There's no spell checker on Comments, note, so if I wanted to write about the space-time continuem... continue-em... continuiem... I'd be $@^$ed.)

I looked it up... two "u"s. Who knew? Other than Steven (Stephen?) Hawking?

10:44 AM

 
Blogger Kel said...

You know why my blogs take so darned long to write? 'Cause if I were actually writing about the STC and Hawking, I'd have to do elaborate Google searches to confirm my facts. Then I'd get all distracted... then....

At least you just say what you want to say, critics be damned. Good for you.

It's "Stephen" by the way.
And "continuum".

10:48 AM

 
Blogger Kel said...

Stop me before I blurt a useless fact again!

10:48 AM

 
Blogger Kate said...

Surely you are joking about those questions!!?? I am sure you did better than you think you did. And yes, those questions do constitute unfair testing procedures. Your teacher is a dick! And I should know, I used to work with him.

11:03 AM

 

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