Swimm
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Yeah, I understand those damn tests. With an BSME, MBA, CPA, I have taken way too many tests in my day. Only good thing is that getting a PhD at my level actually reduces commercial marketability ... hence no more tests
I remember my favorite final from undergrad, a comprehensive final for two courses that combined for a final exam ... internal controls (LaPlace transforms, Dif Eq, etc. functionally crossed with Internal Mechanisms for Biological Animation ... basically applying control systems to organic systems).
I went through an 8 hour exam from hell with only two questions. The first question was to name the eight players of the "Black Sox" ... for 1/2 of one point ... the dean of engineering was a baseball fan. 99.5% of the test was to describe the control systems, activation mechanisms, stress and strain factors, and mechanical linkages for the ambulation of a horse walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping.
It sucked!
When the two profs handed back the final exams, I received a score of 7 out of 100. Crap, thought I, I am done-for (out of money so no chance of retaking, senior level class, deep shit). Then the two profs explained that they had decided to grade the exam, upon receiving the students' paper, upon a weighted bell curve, where the average for all student would be a "D".
I got the freakin highest grade in the class ... I went from despair to on-top-of-the world in a 30 second span ... until the profs explained that receiving the curved grade depended upon every student taking the exam home and completing, open book, by the end of the week, with an acceptable solution.
Luckily, I had friends in high places (graduate school). I am so glad to be done with educational classes (formally)!!!
Have a beer (non-alcoholic while on dnp, of course) tonight!
I remember my favorite final from undergrad, a comprehensive final for two courses that combined for a final exam ... internal controls (LaPlace transforms, Dif Eq, etc. functionally crossed with Internal Mechanisms for Biological Animation ... basically applying control systems to organic systems).
I went through an 8 hour exam from hell with only two questions. The first question was to name the eight players of the "Black Sox" ... for 1/2 of one point ... the dean of engineering was a baseball fan. 99.5% of the test was to describe the control systems, activation mechanisms, stress and strain factors, and mechanical linkages for the ambulation of a horse walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping.
It sucked!
When the two profs handed back the final exams, I received a score of 7 out of 100. Crap, thought I, I am done-for (out of money so no chance of retaking, senior level class, deep shit). Then the two profs explained that they had decided to grade the exam, upon receiving the students' paper, upon a weighted bell curve, where the average for all student would be a "D".
I got the freakin highest grade in the class ... I went from despair to on-top-of-the world in a 30 second span ... until the profs explained that receiving the curved grade depended upon every student taking the exam home and completing, open book, by the end of the week, with an acceptable solution.
Luckily, I had friends in high places (graduate school). I am so glad to be done with educational classes (formally)!!!
Have a beer (non-alcoholic while on dnp, of course) tonight!
