Academic Freedom allows a professor to do pretty much what he or she wants in the classroom. Except for rape, murder, sexual harassment and discrimination most anything goes. I had more than mid-term tests last week where the professor wrote weird multiple choice tests. I had two, or was it three, tests that had multiple choice questions where any or all of the answers were fair game. We were instructed to pick any, all, or none of the answers. Not a “both A and B are correct” choice. Nope. Pick A, B, C, D, E, or any combination you see fit. Crap!
Now that is a hard test to take. Never done that before and in no case were we alerted to that to begin with. Surprise! I also had a test that was grammatically incorrect. It confused every single person in the room and we had to rewrite it in order for it to make sense. The fact that the professor was not there for the mid-term and we had substitute standing in made that worse.
One teacher showed up late to the mid-term then her phone went off during it. In that particular class, we had two different tests. Not the same test with the same answers in different orders. We had two different tests with different questions on it. The average, by the way, was a 62.6 percent. I did significantly better than that, but I still did not do well enough for my satisfaction.
Now that is a hard test to take. Never done that before and in no case were we alerted to that to begin with. Surprise! I also had a test that was grammatically incorrect. It confused every single person in the room and we had to rewrite it in order for it to make sense. The fact that the professor was not there for the mid-term and we had substitute standing in made that worse.
One teacher showed up late to the mid-term then her phone went off during it. In that particular class, we had two different tests. Not the same test with the same answers in different orders. We had two different tests with different questions on it. The average, by the way, was a 62.6 percent. I did significantly better than that, but I still did not do well enough for my satisfaction.
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sounds um...fun. i can relate
The hardest multiple answer tests I ever took were from Tom Stombaugh in Comparative Anatomy at SMS.
One answer would be one of his famous jokes ... so immediately discarded.
One answer would be off the bat wrong .. so could be discarded.
The last two would be so close in content that you really had to understand the material to get the right one. 50% would have gotten you an "F".
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