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Well today, i thought everything was going well, Finance exam and all, First of all, the exam was brutal. I need to get 34% on the final to pass the class which was pretty tough to do on this exam. Then later on during the night i was talking to someone about the exam and I realized what happened.
I forgot to put the version number of the exam on my scantron sheet. How do u mess up something so important as that. I am almost for sure going to fail the exam.
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Ouch.
Take it in stride though, the Scantron is an evil invention, encouraging teachers to work to it as opposed to teaching methods being adapted for the taught material...It is designed to fuck studends up.
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it had 5 questions so 20% chance
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PurposelessPlay Wrote:Quote:the Scantron is an evil invention, encouraging teachers to work to it as opposed to teaching methods being adapted for the taught material...It is designed to f**k studends up.
Can you go into more detail? I've never heard of this, but I'm well past college age now. Thanks
It is an invention that makes multiple choice even easier to mark than it already was. Instead of circling the answer on the exam, you fill in a box on the scantron sheet with a pencil. The sheets are scanned by a machine that assigns your mark. Kind of like voting in the US...it's there to screw everybody.
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well there are these new ones at my school where there a bubble for what version exam you are writing. Well this is the first final I've done in 3 years where there are different versions since at Mac it is already impossible to cheat. So i didnt think anything of it since, there have never been versions before, why would there be a different version today.
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the testing system screwed me up
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I prefer to think the test reveals the screwedupness inherent in you :lol:
I'm kidding. I had scantron back in university any my biggest screwup was the time I skipped a question on the test by accident, but did not skip a number on the scantron. Out of 120 questions, the last 76 were all off by a number and I did not have ONE DAMN CLUE that I'd done anything wrong. Out of the 44 questions before the mistake, I got 38 right. I rocked the house and was all set for a B+.
Out of the last 76, by sheer coincidence I got 8. So I got 46 out of 120 and failed.
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Dude,
I'm a teacher, and even I see how bullshit the education system is. My uncle once told me, "Your real educaton starts when your done." So true. Screw finals. Have a beer and listen to music@work.
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The Horrible Esthete Wrote:fingernailsonhull Wrote:It is an invention that makes multiple choice even easier to mark than it already was. Instead of circling the answer on the exam, you fill in a box on the scantron sheet with a pencil. The sheets are scanned by a machine that assigns your mark. Kind of like voting in the US...it's there to screw everybody.
So let me get this straight - a testing system which requires the respondent to fill in a lettered oval for each answer is EVIL and is DESIGNED TO SCREW STUDENTS UP?
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Jesse Jackson? Is that you?
I agree that to screw multiple choice up is worthy of quite a few tool points. However, it is easier than you may think to skip a line or what have you, which throws the rest of your answers off. This is impossible when simply circling the correct letter of the test paper itself.
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As stated above, that's all I meant. I mean it's multiple choice, it takes approximately 4 minutes to mark 40 questions normally, so why the need to put it in the hands of a computer when improper erasing can result in a mark lost. That's my point, it just speaks of a lean towards laziness, it in itself is not evil.
