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Dec. 13th, 2004 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hopefulnebulaIt is frackin' FREEZING out there.
And it's a Monday so the idiots are out in force. Case in point: Psych exam. It actually went fairly well except for the last section. The way this professor structures exams is really rather simple. It's all multiple-choice and the test takes up half the allotted time. Then he splits us off into groups of 3 or 4 and has us take the test in groups, the point being to add an element of discussion. If the group score is higher than the highest individual score in the group, everyone in the group gets up to 10 percent bonus points. Let me know if you need further explanation; I didn't get it until the first "mini-exam" myself.
Anyway, the individual component went rather well. The two others in my group were two of the idiots I mentioned last week--the least Neanderthalesque of the dumb jocks (sits in front of me; is really a good guy but thick) and the ditzy girl who sits behind me. All was mostly well and good until we reached one question for which the answer was obvious. Just so I don't look like an idiot, I'll say now that I've looked the answer up and mine was indeed the correct one. Conversation about this question went like this. After ten minutes worth of arguing--she wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise--she admitted that she hadn't even read the chapter. *headdesk*
Now it's off to the wind and quasi-snow and French.
And it's a Monday so the idiots are out in force. Case in point: Psych exam. It actually went fairly well except for the last section. The way this professor structures exams is really rather simple. It's all multiple-choice and the test takes up half the allotted time. Then he splits us off into groups of 3 or 4 and has us take the test in groups, the point being to add an element of discussion. If the group score is higher than the highest individual score in the group, everyone in the group gets up to 10 percent bonus points. Let me know if you need further explanation; I didn't get it until the first "mini-exam" myself.
Anyway, the individual component went rather well. The two others in my group were two of the idiots I mentioned last week--the least Neanderthalesque of the dumb jocks (sits in front of me; is really a good guy but thick) and the ditzy girl who sits behind me. All was mostly well and good until we reached one question for which the answer was obvious. Just so I don't look like an idiot, I'll say now that I've looked the answer up and mine was indeed the correct one. Conversation about this question went like this. After ten minutes worth of arguing--she wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise--she admitted that she hadn't even read the chapter. *headdesk*
Now it's off to the wind and quasi-snow and French.
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Date: 2004-12-13 06:10 pm (UTC)"So, Dan, what did you make of [chapter from The Talented Mr. Ripley]?"
"Dunno, I had to take the DVD back to Blockbuster yesterday so I haven't seen that bit yet."
(or "It's not out yet", or "I missed it on telly, did you tape it?")
*headdesk*
The whole point of doing a literature module, which requires a literary critique as coursework, is that you read the frickin' book, dumbass!!
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Date: 2004-12-13 10:43 pm (UTC)You could always come over here, Lizzy. It's still pretty nice weatherwise.