View Full Version : I ****ing hate online tests.
Goddamn it, I totally ****ing forgot to take a test that I was supposed to before Spring Break. **** me in the ass. Tests have a 48% weight to them too and there's only one left. I better not **** up on that last test or the final :angry
Glip the Gnome
03-31-08, 09:46 AM
Give me online tests any day! Having Google at your disposal makes the whole process quite a bit easier :P
Velvetrose
03-31-08, 09:55 AM
Goddamn it, I totally ****ing forgot to take a test that I was supposed to before Spring Break. **** me in the ass. Tests have a 48% weight to them too and there's only one left. I better not **** up on that last test or the final :angry
Ahhh...to still be in school...
Just wait until you have been out of school for a few years and have dreams about tests.
Like finding out you have a final in a class you didn't even "remember" having signed up for and have never attended...THEN all of a sudden you are sitting in the room getting ready to take the final...
Dayplanners are your friend
Caowyth
03-31-08, 10:14 AM
I remember my Bio 101 class. At the beginning of the class the prof handed out a syllabus that said the entire class was graded on two tests, on X and Y days, and that everything else didn't matter.
I showed up for class 2 days and got my A. =P
Give me online tests any day! Having Google at your disposal makes the whole process quite a bit easier :P
Yeah, I like that and the fact that I can use my book. However, I hate having them in classes that I actually go to. I totally ****ing forgot after I got done with my lab and went home to do the ****er on friday.
Glip the Gnome
03-31-08, 10:54 AM
Yeah, I like that and the fact that I can use my book. However, I hate having them in classes that I actually go to. I totally ****ing forgot after I got done with my lab and went home to do the ****er on friday.
Yeah that sounds kind of weird. I've never had an online test for a class that was on campus.
The only really crappy part of online tests that I've experienced was my computer crashing in the middle of a final exam. That was big fun! Fortunately the professors are usually pretty cool about that stuff and let you restart it if you call them right away.
Qutsmnie
03-31-08, 11:11 AM
In my futures market class it was a physically go to it class with in class test, but alot of the weekly stuff was like weekly quizzes online. Totally procrastinated those. I have no idea why! Speaking of that I need to do my taxes.
There's one HUGE issue with online tests and google... What do you do if google is more updated than your textbook?
I failed an exam because my information was more current. :(
Also, online programming tests are even worse.
There's one HUGE issue with online tests and google... What do you do if google is more updated than your textbook?
I failed an exam because my information was more current. :(
Also, online programming tests are even worse.
Honestly, I rarely used the internets for my answers, only occaisonally when I was too lazy to read every bit of the text to find an answer, and usually it was the right one. None of my programming tests that were online ever required writing code or anything difficult, just mulitple choice and the like (this was a programming test I forgot about).
Glip the Gnome
03-31-08, 11:30 PM
Yeah I've never had a programming class that made you actually write code for the final exam. We'd usually have a multiple choice question final exam and then a final project where we had to write a program or something.
As for google being more up to date -- usually in my classes the lectures are all posted online as well in text files. I just open them all up in separate tabs and then use "find in page" to check my answers. Of course, all I've been doing for six months is writing essays. I'd almost kill for a multiple choice exam right now :P
Qutsmnie
04-01-08, 12:16 AM
My unix systems programming prof at U of A had us write a code snippet or two for some shell programming. He said he always wanted to go to a full up "you have two hours start programming" type final but he had never found a way to ensure that students wouldnt be communicating electronically.
The harder programming classes though never bothered.
Pratell
04-01-08, 10:39 AM
Yeah I've never had a programming class that made you actually write code for the final exam.
in my programming class all of our tests were: here is a code segment. write the rest of the program.
by hand... and points were taken off for syntax errors.
We have weekly projects in which we have to code something, like Gauss Sidell interpolation, or Linear Least Squares...
Then our test is how well we can use our program.
Except this last test was phrased and written so differently the programs had to be rebuilt from the ground up to work under different constraints. That was the case for 3 out of the 5 problems,
problem 4? Extra credit part of one of the earlier assignments. Extra credit on an assignment means you don't have to know it, right? Or so I thought.
Last problem is next week's program.
WTF.
Our school switched to "online tests" in that you could only access the tests using the computers in the lab and through anything but IE. The cool thing is you get your grade as soon as you clicked finish.
The first day they started em.
The morning tests had a small bump where the browser was giving spelling correction.
When the afternoon tests started.. the auto complete from the morning group started to kick in.
Had the autocomplete kick in during one of the retakes I had on the test, was solving using Gaussian Elimination (No pivot),
My A Matrix was the same, B had a subtle tweak, so all I had to do was redo my B matrix operations, and use the same answers for A... It was kind of funny.
I also did that problem by hand because I'm pragmatic and it was easier than using the program I made. :x.
We have weekly projects in which we have to code something, like Gauss Sidell interpolation, or Linear Least Squares...
Then our test is how well we can use our program.
Except this last test was phrased and written so differently the programs had to be rebuilt from the ground up to work under different constraints. That was the case for 3 out of the 5 problems,
problem 4? Extra credit part of one of the earlier assignments. Extra credit on an assignment means you don't have to know it, right? Or so I thought.
Last problem is next week's program.
WTF.
The hardest test I ever had was for c++. He gave us 40 pages of code told us there were 30 errors. If we find 29 we get an A, 28 a B, 27, a C, 26 a D, anything less an F. We had like an hour. It was some intense **** too.
Most of his tests were complete the code by hand, though. Or he would give an explantation of what the program would do and we had to write in by hand.
Got a 28 on the first take, out of 100.
Yah,
I'm at class average on that one.
Top it off? RETAKE is today! No announcement, it just shows up online. If I didn't check this morning to see if I could sign up for a class, I'd be boned.