Comments on: It is always worrying

By: solid snake

solid snake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:53:58 +0000

Actually sometimes I do have essay questions> Those tests take 15 minutes.

By: LightlyFrosted

LightlyFrosted — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:16:25 +0000

Solid Snake: You don’t uh.. have essay questions on your exams, do you?

By: SmR

SmR — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:11:00 +0000

I’ve had teachers that don’t really care about testing you on the hardest stuff, they want to make sure you can answer exactly what you’re asked and not just barf up the whole textbook. So, in conclusion… Team Go Get A Drink.

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:16:57 +0000

Came out of an exam last year *convinced* I’d failed because I must have missed something – it couldn’t have been that easy. Got 86%.

By: bunnyofdoom

bunnyofdoom — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:02:34 +0000

Great. My exams are next week and now you’ve got me really worried.

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:26:17 +0000

God, I hate the uncertainty that follows in the wake of exams. I feel like stabbing anyone who asks me how I think I did. Can they not see I don’t want to think about it?!

By: TA

TA — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:48:09 +0000

Could be worse. Could get an exam where you spend half an hour trying to figure out how to begin answering one of the questions.

By: solid snake

solid snake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:08:14 +0000

Unless it is Math (evil) than I am always done with tests inside of twelve minutes. Bizzarly enough less time= higher grade for me. I must be a freak or something. Plus don’t have A drink, have MANY.

By: Krissy

Krissy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:58:32 +0000

I read a report once that was talking about how people who thought they did well on tests were statistically more likely to have done worse on them than people who were unsure of the results.

By: supergp

supergp — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:13:30 +0000

Yikes. I hate those moments.

My advice: Go have a drink. I mean, if you aced it, you might as well celebrate your awesomeness. If you failed it hard, then a drink won’t hurt you any.

By: Cookie McCool

Cookie McCool — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:01:35 +0000

I work in a professional testing environment, and “deceptively easy” is usually when you’re so dumb, you don’t even realize that you just took a test for a class you had two years ago.

By: ApathyMonger

ApathyMonger — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:26:51 +0000

Absolutely.

One of my exams last year had the exact same questions as the sample exam we’d been give, only in a different order. I was finished the 2 hour exam in 40 minutes.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:12:28 +0000

Yes. I’ve even gone back and asked the teacher if “that was all”

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:39:26 +0000

That wonderful fear that you either fucked up incredibly badly or they’ll be rewriting the textbooks based on what you just wrote.

By: PaulW

PaulW — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:12:09 +0000

Deceptively easy is the worst kind of exam.

(shudder) Gotta prepare for the A+ Cert… (shudder)