If you lost 10% on your english mark because of how stupidly the exam was made..

[Chain Chompesque]

Just beat whoever made the exam over the head. With a giant tuna.

it was a provincial exam... there was no one person...


67% of the PROVINCE FAILED.

Province?

>_>

<_<

Then beat 'em all down! They obviously deserve it!

[LinkXLR]

I love how you blame a piece of paper for you're lack of smarts Effort.

Grades are ALL about effort.

The guy next to me in Science is a total dumbass, yet he has a better grade than me. Why?

He studies his ass off, and I don't. Now, don't get me wrong, I still have a solid A in the class, but he has an A+, because he overstudies.

He got 100% on the Science exam compared to my 98. Had I studied at all, I would've had a 100 too, but no. I don't study. Our school system is corrupt, in many, many ways.

1. Dumbasses don't use effort.
2. Effort doesn't do anything. You can put in all the effort in the world and still fail.

I find that untrue. I have never seen a soul in my life that failed for trying their hardest.

[Shujinco2]

This sounds awesome.

SO, how exactly WAS the test so stupid?

1.  The questions didn't apply to most of the stories that went along with them.  Manitoba Provincial exams usually have generally the same questions, but swapped stories.

2.  A teacher in Winnipeg leaked the topic of the exam (Fairness was the topic :|) to their students, and was subsequently fired, but since they leaked the topic, it screwed with everybody's marks in the province.

3.  The topic was "Fairness".  Far too broad.  Apparently Justice has nothing to do with fairness, but Pity & Generosity do.  Part of the reason my mark was so low.  I wrote on Justice, but apparently they didn't like that.

4.  The stories weren't about fairness, they were about being kind to people less fortunate, or they were basically "what the f***" stories.  An example of this was a story of a man who's wife had died, and he went to the graveyard, when all of the sudden the dead rose from their graves and wrote on their gravestones why they had really died, and his wife wrote that the reason she died from a cold was because she had gone out to cheat on him.  Didn't apply to "Fairness" in enough ways to warrant a whole page's worth of writing.

5.  Not enough substance.  the questions on the first day lacked any sort of suitable depth.  they were all "This is a homeless/disabled person, i was mean to them, I have seen my wrongdoings" sorts of stories, and since they were all exactly the same, you ran out of things to say on the exam without reiterating yourself time and time again.

6.  The time given for writing our major piece (article/short story/poem, etc) was far too short.  In order to get something with any substance or ideas whatsoever, you need more time than 3 hours.  I was planned out prior to writing on these days, and I still needed a bit of extra time (5 minutes, less than that) to finish.

7.  You were marked wrong on opinion-based questions.


I'm too tired to list more.  goodnight.

DANG! That IS bad!

I feel sorry for you. I shall share my fairness with you due to my sorriness. :)

[Jono2]

My friend wrote about a guy who takes a children's hospital hostage, kills a couple, then gets killed by a SWAT team.

he got 87%. :|

[Shujinco2]

My friend wrote about a guy who takes a children's hospital hostage, kills a couple, then gets killed by a SWAT team.

he got 87%. :|

And oddly, it has nothing to do with anything. :-\