The most bullshit exam you ever took.

[Vlinny-kun]

Vent about a test or exam that you took in the past that was clearly unfair or just too fucking hard.

Spoiler: A clear example of bullshit

Thanks cengage. Really appreciate it.

 

[Niggernerd]

Any that was math. Trick questions and stupid wording. I would unironcally seethe and refuse to do them.

 

[The Last Stand]

Microsoft Edge WAS included with Windows 10. What were they talking about?

Questions that would involve All of the above, then that answer turns out to be wrong.

 

[Lonely Grave]

I had an exam for Studio Arts. Yes. A written, analytical exam for ART.

The most bullshit thing about it was the subject weighted it equally against the mega-portfolio that was the core focus of the unit (i.e. create an art project and accompanying portfolio), so in the end my subject score got dragged into the mud despite scoring As on both portfolio assessments.

 

[Fistbeard_McThunderaxe]

The grading system in college is at the whim and mood of your teacher and ultimately arbitrary gate-keeping. Society wants to churn out conformist dogs who will jump hoops, so tests that are deceptive serve no purpose. You either understand the material or you don't

 

[Snusmumriken]

Not exactly a school exam but it was funny. You have to take various online courses (each only like half an hour) to work with kiddos at the YMCA, and one was about recognizing child abuse and what to do when you suspect it.

Six years later I still remember this question.

“A child says to you, ‘Mr. Jones wears funny underwear.’ How do you respond?

A.) “How do you know Mr. Jones has funny underwear?”

don’t remember B,

C.) “So? You wear funny underwear too.”

D.) Show the child your underwear.”

You can retry the test as much as you want, btw. I finished it thinking that honestly, anyone who fails should have the cops called on them immediately.

 

[fat venus]

"How does this caricature picture describe the era and relevant happenings of its time? Write a short analysis." in a history exam, worth a quarter of the points. Pic was a tiny, black-and-white blurry mess. I'm not sure anyone could answer that.

Spoiler: powerlevel smh

It was in either 7th or 8th grade, and my asspie self with face recognition problems could barely remember what my classmates looked like irl, let alone some old-ass European politicians from 1800s in a blurry exaggerated drawing

 

[FuckedUp]

"How does this caricature picture describe the era and relevant happenings of its time? Write a short analysis." in a history exam, worth a quarter of the points. Pic was a tiny, black-and-white blurry mess. I'm not sure anyone could answer that.

Spoiler: powerlevel smh

It was in either 7th or 8th grade, and my asspie self with face recognition problems could barely remember what my classmates looked like irl, let alone some old-ass European politicians from 1800s in a blurry exaggerated drawing

At least one of my history teachers did that, but I personally found it fine.

Anyway, my worst exam was in Computer Graphics last semester, about a month before corona-chan fucked everything up. The professor said the exam would be mostly multiple-choice with a couple short-answer questions at the end, but it ended up being all short-answer and one long-answer at the end. It was only worth 5% of the final grade and I got an 80 on it, but still.

 

[Grotesque Bushes]

The most bullshit exam I've taken was an insurance agent accreditation exam. It's mandated and run by the government, and you have to pass it to handle insurance policies, financial and medical data linked to it etc. It's the biggest sham I've seen in my life.
The exam is ran and supervised by accredited insurance agents - who just happen to work in the very same company you do. I'm yet to meet a single person who failed it, and perfect scores are par for the course.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

I have another one. It was a lab where you had to connect the appropiate cables to the right ports on different devices and configure them so that one end device could ping to the other successfully. My professor let us know ahead of time to use the serial cable to connect the two routers together and it was one of the requirements to complete the lab. Guess what? In the lab, both routers had no serial ports and the cable wasn't going to connect to any of the other ports. I had no choice but to connect them with some other cable that would connect to fastethernet and I was able to successfully complete the other tasks just fine. I even left a note above the two routers explaining that there's no serial ports to connect the serial cables to. He dropped 11 points for not using the serial cable I couldn't do anything with. I even emailed him about the issue and he just responded with "You must always use the serial interface to connect router-to-router. That was a requirement to the lab assignment. There will be no retakes of any lab assignments."

 

[Jewthulhu]

Every exam for abnormal psych. One of the questions on the final exam was something along the lines of "In the reading, what did Jane have in the trunk of her car?" Every single question from every single exam was the same thing, minutia from the "supplementary" reading that had nothing to do with subject matter itself. It got to the point where I just started ignoring the textbook altogether because it had absolutely nothing to do with what was on the exams.
I don't know if it's a problem with my campus of just the field in general, but every psychology class I've taken was absolutely horrible. I was initially going to go for a psych minor but after how horrible abnormal psychology was I decided against it.

 

[Furina]

The one unit I did in Philosophy for "fun". Final exam was one question: Answer this.

Spoiler: The Answer

Basically, you're meant to explain your thought process leading up answering the question. For instance, before I can answer this question I must must understand what is being asked of me, and how I may respond to such a question. How can I answer a question to which I do not know the answer, or indeed, even the question?

 

[TokiBun]

All my listening exams in college. They’d give us 20 plus songs to recognize the year, title, (many weren’t in English,) and work it came from. It all felt like cramming and I barely remember any of the music we were told to memorize because of this.

 

[Old Man Mario]

Any of the standardized tests for public schools were horseshit. We'd hear the same shit about #2 pencils and coloring in the dots correctly. We'd then proceed to take practice tests for 1 to 2 months of the school year.

Absolute waste of time. Kids bitch about not using algebra when they grow up, but I've never had to take a standardized test since High School.

 

[Y2K Baby]

The pap smear.

 

[Just A Butt]

I went with C, but D is also bad.

The folks bitching about pain can wait.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Any of the standardized tests for public schools were horseshit. We'd hear the same shit about #2 pencils and coloring in the dots correctly. We'd then proceed to take practice tests for 1 to 2 months of the school year.

The #2 pencil requirement's so stupid, for fuck sakes it's been possible to use other types for ages at this point, why keep that outdated requirement? Oh yeah, because schools can't be assed to update shit, even with stuff that really needs continuous updating like tech courses.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Eye exams.

Sometime I just can't tell if 1 is better than 2.

 

[DavieJones714]

a philosophy of logic final. one question essay BS. i was hopeless. the course fulfilled a math requirement and i thought i was slick.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Questions that would involve All of the above, then that answer turns out to be wrong.

I once had this professor that would make several versions of the test. My version had an All of the Above, but it wasn't at the bottom. There was another answer below it. What made this evil was that the one below it sounded wrong while all the above the All of the Above sounded correct. When I saw that, my first instinct was that the All of the Above only accounted for the ones above it and ignored the one below it. Why wouldn't it? It's called All of the Above, and it seemed as though all the above answers were correct.

Turns out it was wrong, because All of the Above doesn't mean All of the Above.