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I want to rant about my test, I just failed the first half, the hands on part. Poor poor Kim. Will rant more as soon as the written part is done.

Alright, so the written part is done, done and gone. And I failed that, for sure, I failed big time. I kinda just sat there scratching my head. Ugh, duh, I dunno, I'll just write anything. Hopefully I managed to fill out the scantron form properly, If I did than I might just manage to scrape by, maybe, otherwise I failed, failed, failed.

Though, I did get my hands on part back and I got 22 out of 26. Not even close to the failing grade I thought. Still. As soon as class is over, or at least the test... rant I shall.

Kim

Aww, you are so sweet Paul, no wonder it's sometimes hard to think of you as .

Anyway, I'm finally going to actually rant. And I know that some of the things I'm ranting about are small, and almost petty, but string them all together and you have a pissed off Keeper of Puppies that will yell about her stupid class and Prof to anyone who will listen!

First off, the class wasn't cheap, and is supposed to go from 9am-4pm. And yet the Prof is usually finished teaching before noon. This wouldn't be so bad, but her way of teaching is to run through the tutorial, and quite frankly, from the back of the classroom I can't see the pull down screen, and I can barely hear her. Even when I do hear her it doesn't help as I cannot learn that way. I've been tested upside down and backwards, so to speak, for every learning disability there is, all they can say is I don't learn properly, they can't figure out which improper way that I do learn. So in class, I sit and post on the board.

I go to class every Sunday. At the beginning of class we hand in the two take home quizzes from the week before. We put our answers to said quizzes on a scantron form. Anyone living in Ontario in the last decade will have encountered a form of this when they wrote the province's standardised testing. You fill out the little bubble with a Number 2 pencil.

So the second week I handed the quiz in I should have gotten 100%, but for 4 answers I mistakenly filled in the wrong bubble. I'd done the work the night before, and in the morning I was filling out the scantron form... It was early morning and I was sleepy. The 5th mistake actually wasn't a mistake, I got it right, but the question was worded so poorly that in fact none of the answers you could choose were actually correct. The Prof argued with me, and her words were "well, I think what the question is trying to ask is..." Well hello? Anyone home? You are the Prof, it's your job to make sure the quizzes are worded properly, not mine.

This week I got Paul to help me with my homework, I always seem to suck someone into being my homework hooker for the night! Thanks Paul! Honestly I hate this class, I hate accounting, numbers make me want to fall asleep. And I was very excited to find that one of the questions on this week's quiz was a no brainer.

15. To publish an Excel worksheet to the WWW, the worksheet must be converted to HMLT format.
a. true.
b. false.

No brainer! It must be true! You have to convert it to something so a browser can understand it, and HTML makes sense, right?

So she's quickly going through the answers after the quizzes have been marked by the scantron scanner machine... and the answer to 15 is...

FALSE?

WTF? How's that possible? I wasn't the only one with that reaction. Most the class felt the same way. Why is it false you ask?

The question says HMLT

I never even noticed. I wouldn't. I don't notice shit like that. I believe the doctors called it an Audio Visual Defiency. Whatever that means. Appearently it should expain why sometimes I get my p's and q's and b's and d's mixed up. What about someone with a learning disability? That isn't a fair question to be asking.

I was so pissed off. This is supposed to be a college level class for puck's sake! COLLEGE! Not high school. And HMLT? How the hell, if I'd have noticed, was I supposed to know that wasn't just a typo?

This particular incident pisses me off more than any of the others.

This week we had our first of two tests/exams. There are approx. 30 students in the class. And just enough computers for all of us. To write the hands on part of the test she split us into 2 groups. The 1st wrote the hands on from 9:30am to 10:30am, the second from 10:30am to 11:30am. I was in the 2nd group. While the 1st group did their test we were moved from computer lab to computer lab trying to find somewhere to be. The 2nd group then had the same problem.

I understand she did this in an attempt to keep us from cheating, however she let 2 girls get away with talking for 30 minutes in another language before someone complained they were being loud and she warned them that talking in any language would be considered cheating and result in a Zero! Hello? McFly? Shouldn't she have said that without prodding from a student? If you'll condone cheating why bother seperating the groups! Besides it's an open book test for goodness sake!

The written test was from 11:30 to 12:30. Books were put away, computers left alone. Except that a girl sitting no more than 5 feet from me had excel open and was checking her answers with how the program ran. What? I saw. Julie saw. 10 minutes before the end of the test the Prof threatened her with a zero. She said, "have you had that open the whole time? It's a closed book test" and left it at that. It really pisses me off that she makes me wait an hour to write my test, but doesn't stop cheaters from cheating!

At last the tests were over. I don't know how I did on the written. All I need is to get like 20% and I'll have passed the tests overall, so I don't mind. Though I really wanted to keep my 4.0 GPA.

My Dad wants me to complain to the school about the Prof... I normally don't have problems making complaints about shitty service as such, however what if I got the Prof again and she knew I'd complained? That could be bad news for me.

Kim

PS. I feel better already. Ranting really helped.