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Oooh, All of the Above would be all the answers ABOVE that option would be correct!
Sneaky bastard. I can't even be mad at that.
The most bullshit exam you ever took.
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Sneaky bastard. I can't even be mad at that.
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I had a similar experience, though that was three pages for four pretentious faux-intellectual questions. The professor was definitely getting high off his own farts, plus he was incredibly salty his course got downgraded from "mandatory" to "optional". Fucker was out for blood and I barely passed.
I've also had a number of exams which had "elimination rounds" to separate the men from the boys. Barely passing those entry tests meant you'd get a B- at worst for the proper exam.
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SAT. Even though I scored the highest on it in my graduating class.
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Gepa and hespa testing. IDK if NJ still does them but their like the Sat's for elementary and middle schooled just to see if they aren't too tarded to get into high school. Honestly all standardized tests are bs.. Who among my fellow kiwis have ever needed or used anything they learned on standardized tests in real life since you took them?
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One of my college professors made the midterm a Two-parter for absolutely no reason, and failed to email or address any student about it until the next day of class (when it was due). When only five students (including myself) actually noticed the extra part, he complains for about 10 minutes then "graciously" (his words not mine) reopens the test. He also wore a trilby and the only way to get extra credit in his class was to watch one of the plays he's in for a whole 15 points! (The theater was 50 minutes away from the campus)
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In high school I had some state exam/standardized test for a science subject, don't really remember which one but I know at the end the test they asked questions about a lab you were supposed to do during the school year. Or during the test. Something about "the bird lab" and the results from it. I couldn't fucking tell what the fuck the question meant.
Why? Because we never did any labs in science class, nor did we actually take that class in the science lab!
We fucking watched movies, not even science ones just cartoons, the entire time in class so I had to teach myself at home. Of course I'm not gonna know about the labs required by the state exams! (inb4 your teacher or guidance counselor should have told you, bold to assume people in education are competent)
And even if I did know about them, the science lab was a makeshift art, culinary and movie watching classroom instead. I didn't even have my science classes in there, it was the classroom across from it.
Had to take the tests in the history classroom because taking it in the designated area would be cheating...just take down the posters for fucks sake.
Actually now that I think about it there were many questions on that test that needed tools to be answered but of course I'm in the history class and I cannot get what I need to answer the question. Because again, it's cheating. Somehow.
Ended up writing a small plea for mercy instead of an answer, and I received none.
Why? Because we never did any labs in science class, nor did we actually take that class in the science lab!
We fucking watched movies, not even science ones just cartoons, the entire time in class so I had to teach myself at home. Of course I'm not gonna know about the labs required by the state exams! (inb4 your teacher or guidance counselor should have told you, bold to assume people in education are competent)
And even if I did know about them, the science lab was a makeshift art, culinary and movie watching classroom instead. I didn't even have my science classes in there, it was the classroom across from it.
Had to take the tests in the history classroom because taking it in the designated area would be cheating...just take down the posters for fucks sake.
Actually now that I think about it there were many questions on that test that needed tools to be answered but of course I'm in the history class and I cannot get what I need to answer the question. Because again, it's cheating. Somehow.
Ended up writing a small plea for mercy instead of an answer, and I received none.
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I have 2, one was bullshit because the teachers answer key was off by one question and made over half the tests answers not line up, she decided not to fix it and to just keep it in our grade.
The second one was a poetry test, it was really a project but she called it a test, in this project we had to pick a song and match it to a traditional poem via the themes of the two. Alternatively we could write our own poem but i chose to match mine, i dont remember which song anymore but it was an old Black Dahlia Murder song, she hated the song and gave me a 50, because she liked the poem i chose.
The second one was a poetry test, it was really a project but she called it a test, in this project we had to pick a song and match it to a traditional poem via the themes of the two. Alternatively we could write our own poem but i chose to match mine, i dont remember which song anymore but it was an old Black Dahlia Murder song, she hated the song and gave me a 50, because she liked the poem i chose.
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Literature is pure bullshit because of teachers like this. "While your choice matches the criteria/your argument has a good point/your presentation is well researched and well put together, I don't like it, so you get a C. A C- to be exact."
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CompTIA exams are just rife with gotcha questions, some of which are as outright wrong as the ones in the OP.
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Alergey testing - 100 pin-pricks later and I sill wasn't allergic to anything.
Seriously though, I had a Phys Ed teacher who did one-on-one sports, matched you at random with another kid, and if you lost your matches, you got a "C-" He'd only bump it up to a "C" if you showed up for every class. Didn't matter how hard you tried, or how skilled you were (or weren't) compared to your opponent, or how close you played them, if you were a worse natural athlete than some other rando after a week of 30-minute class time? Too bad nancy boy..... you deserve relegated with the rest of the weaklings......
If there's any justice in the world, his son grew up to be a professional interior decorator.....
Reminds me of that scene from Daria where she has to grade other student's literary papers and returns one's Romeo and Juliet critique with a high grade....
-Hey, I got an A-, so that means those two dudes totally had the hots for each other after all!
-No, it doesn't, but, you argued your case well enough... and at least you proved you read it.
And all I can think of is "I wish people realized that being able to argue your take on the subject matter with proof of your points was the whole goal of learning, not memorizing other people's pre-recorded conclusions and knocking all others down as false. " That's not a joke, the joke is she's being a better teacher then innumerable real life ones that think if you came to a different answer in a subjective topic, you are stupid and wrong.
Seriously though, I had a Phys Ed teacher who did one-on-one sports, matched you at random with another kid, and if you lost your matches, you got a "C-" He'd only bump it up to a "C" if you showed up for every class. Didn't matter how hard you tried, or how skilled you were (or weren't) compared to your opponent, or how close you played them, if you were a worse natural athlete than some other rando after a week of 30-minute class time? Too bad nancy boy..... you deserve relegated with the rest of the weaklings......
If there's any justice in the world, his son grew up to be a professional interior decorator.....
Reminds me of that scene from Daria where she has to grade other student's literary papers and returns one's Romeo and Juliet critique with a high grade....
-Hey, I got an A-, so that means those two dudes totally had the hots for each other after all!
-No, it doesn't, but, you argued your case well enough... and at least you proved you read it.
And all I can think of is "I wish people realized that being able to argue your take on the subject matter with proof of your points was the whole goal of learning, not memorizing other people's pre-recorded conclusions and knocking all others down as false. " That's not a joke, the joke is she's being a better teacher then innumerable real life ones that think if you came to a different answer in a subjective topic, you are stupid and wrong.
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Utilising my lack of medical knowledge I'd go A, C, B, D, personally.
A) Might be a sign of infection or inflammation?
C) Likely a hallucination, not deadly but worth checking out
B) He can wait a bit for some morphine
D) Swollen legs don't sound too bad to me
How did I do?
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Swollen legs are usually indicative of much more serious conditions. Heart failure, deep vein thrombosis, kidney or liver failure, for example. Water might even accumulate in the lungs, suffocating the patient.
I have no idea about the bugs.
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They're already on IV treatment though, and the question doesn't say what they're asking for.
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The thing about the leg swelling (when combined with IV) is it can be an early indicator of fluid overload. Which is pretty serious if not dealt with. Pain at the site of a chest tube is somewhat normal. I mean, you’ve got a large plastic tube jammed into a hole in your chest...
In all honesty, I failed this class. So my word probably isn’t the best. And for whatever reason we weren’t allowed to review the exams to see where we fucked up.
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While taking the written test of Segment I of Driver's Ed, the teacher just gave us the answers to all the problems we were struggling with. Two people still managed to fail though, lol
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It doesn't say whether they had oedema before or after the IV was given though, so my first thought is they're being given a strong saline solution to get the cells to osmose the excessive water into the bloodstream.
Your second point is fair enough though, so I'd go with:
C A B D.
@Otterly, any thoughts?
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I probably shouldn't complain because the subject matter was super easy (cinematography basically), but my professor made us take a test he made in fucking Quizziz, with a time limit and no way to go back and edit your answers. We had to download some videos and play them ourselves to answer. He made us start the test, and THEN he explained that if you got anything wrong, you had to write down the number of the question and the correct answer, and send them to him afterwards. Of course, I had to listen to him to get the time, so I couldn't mute the call, and he talked all. throughout. the test.
My tard ass got a lot of terms mixed up thanks to his non-stop blabbering and his dog playing in the background, and couldn't even finish it bc I lost time writing down the stuff. It was madness
My tard ass got a lot of terms mixed up thanks to his non-stop blabbering and his dog playing in the background, and couldn't even finish it bc I lost time writing down the stuff. It was madness
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My fourth grade teacher was really weird for a vast and multifaceted variety of reasons, but this thread reminds me of something that I've only found more and more weird as I've got older and experienced higher edjumucations.
It was April 1st, which is very relevant to the story and she gave us this general knowledge proficiency test that she hyped up as being a really big deal and we needed to carefully read every question before answering. "No shit you should read the question before answering, lady!" we all thought. The test started out easy enough with questions like "list the colors of the rainbow" and "who is our current governer?" ("Isn't it Bill Gates? Definitely Bill Gates." 4th grade me thought.) There was some weirdness where we were given math problems that didn't have a sign indicating what we are doing with these numbers. Several people asked her what the missing sign was supposed to be and she said that if there was no indicated sign that means you add. To this day I've not heard or seen this situation again. But as the test went on, the directions started to get stranger. We were instructed to write our name on the board, go outside and jog around the building, and do a variety of other strange things.
At the very end of the test was a little note from our teacher saying that the instructions were obviously to read every single question on the whole test and if you made it this far, just write your name on the blank test and turn it in, as this is the teacher's idea of an April Fools joke. Unfortunatly we were all dumb 4th graders and that was still too hard of a concept to grok. She finally told us all, laughing, that this was an elaborate joke and that we should expect this sort of thing in our future education. She insisted that college professors do this all the time. Well I've been to college at this point and I can assure you that none of my professors would ever say, "Gee, I sure would like to spend a bunch of my time writing an entire fake test as an elaborate joke on my students." She pulled that on us quite a bit saying things like "in college they *insert thing a college professor would not ever do* ". Lady, this is 4th grade. Some of us can't read and at least one kid still shits himself. College prep can wait.
It was April 1st, which is very relevant to the story and she gave us this general knowledge proficiency test that she hyped up as being a really big deal and we needed to carefully read every question before answering. "No shit you should read the question before answering, lady!" we all thought. The test started out easy enough with questions like "list the colors of the rainbow" and "who is our current governer?" ("Isn't it Bill Gates? Definitely Bill Gates." 4th grade me thought.) There was some weirdness where we were given math problems that didn't have a sign indicating what we are doing with these numbers. Several people asked her what the missing sign was supposed to be and she said that if there was no indicated sign that means you add. To this day I've not heard or seen this situation again. But as the test went on, the directions started to get stranger. We were instructed to write our name on the board, go outside and jog around the building, and do a variety of other strange things.
At the very end of the test was a little note from our teacher saying that the instructions were obviously to read every single question on the whole test and if you made it this far, just write your name on the blank test and turn it in, as this is the teacher's idea of an April Fools joke. Unfortunatly we were all dumb 4th graders and that was still too hard of a concept to grok. She finally told us all, laughing, that this was an elaborate joke and that we should expect this sort of thing in our future education. She insisted that college professors do this all the time. Well I've been to college at this point and I can assure you that none of my professors would ever say, "Gee, I sure would like to spend a bunch of my time writing an entire fake test as an elaborate joke on my students." She pulled that on us quite a bit saying things like "in college they *insert thing a college professor would not ever do* ". Lady, this is 4th grade. Some of us can't read and at least one kid still shits himself. College prep can wait.
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Took a university module on argument in my 2nd year because it seemed fun - logical argument, fallacies, how to make a good argument etc. Something that could be a useful life skill and one that was very light on reading (to balance out the rest of the mandatory content heavy shit I had that year). Course was 100% exam. No essays, no debates, just one exam that you had to nail. Professor who taught it was fun, eccentric, and also very proud of his work in another field, would often cite his work as good argument, but still amicable enough. Most people who took it were in the 3rd year though, it was one of these modules that both 2nd and 3rd years could take.
All exams in the past followed the same format - 2 hours, three short qns where you had to "analyse the argument" worth 10 marks, 1 slightly longer one that was a passage from a book - worth 20, and an essay question where you had to actively demonstrate (and maybe be slightly self aware) of the techniques learned - worth 50. Only happened to learn during the course that although the material was easy, a lot of people historically fucked up the last question badly, talking about an average of 48-52%+ overall.
Day of exam comes, had a shit timetable where I had one content heavy exam the day before, this one, and then another content heavy one the day after. Open up page....and am greeted with a 2 page passage worth 30 marks. This guy decided to swap the way the questions were marked, and was especially bad because just the day before he held a 1 hour lecture/ask question forum where he confirmed it would follow the usual format multiple times. This guy stood there for an hour and lied through his teeth in a "queries" lecture. It threw so many people off that there were a lot of fuckups on the 30 marker, let alone the 50 marker.
I was fortunate because the content heavy exam the day before occurred at the same time as his lecture, which he had scheduled for his majority 3rd year class. Picked up the last 5 minutes, gave him my thoughts at the time about the 50 marker, and then left. Aced the exam, but most of the year got seriously fucked over.
All exams in the past followed the same format - 2 hours, three short qns where you had to "analyse the argument" worth 10 marks, 1 slightly longer one that was a passage from a book - worth 20, and an essay question where you had to actively demonstrate (and maybe be slightly self aware) of the techniques learned - worth 50. Only happened to learn during the course that although the material was easy, a lot of people historically fucked up the last question badly, talking about an average of 48-52%+ overall.
Day of exam comes, had a shit timetable where I had one content heavy exam the day before, this one, and then another content heavy one the day after. Open up page....and am greeted with a 2 page passage worth 30 marks. This guy decided to swap the way the questions were marked, and was especially bad because just the day before he held a 1 hour lecture/ask question forum where he confirmed it would follow the usual format multiple times. This guy stood there for an hour and lied through his teeth in a "queries" lecture. It threw so many people off that there were a lot of fuckups on the 30 marker, let alone the 50 marker.
I was fortunate because the content heavy exam the day before occurred at the same time as his lecture, which he had scheduled for his majority 3rd year class. Picked up the last 5 minutes, gave him my thoughts at the time about the 50 marker, and then left. Aced the exam, but most of the year got seriously fucked over.
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