The Anthropology Exam Debacle, or How My Anthropology Professor Completely Dropped the Ball
I gots a story to tell, and it was too long for Twitter.
Okay, so today there was an exam in my Anthropology class, and everyone was freaking out because the professor kinda dropped the ball. How? Let me explain you a thing.
Over the weekend, the prof sent the class an email with an attachment that was supposed to be a study guide for the exam. It was actually the real exam, but we all just assumed either it was a practice test or he was being really nice. Either way, that was what we focused on.
But then, at 11:30 at night on Sunday, the professor emailed us all again. This email basically said "I didn't mean to send you the actual test, so I'm gonna completely rework the test so it's nothing like that. I'm so upset that none of you told me."
So basically we were f**ked. We had to go through both four chapters of the textbook and the entirety of the other book we had to read and hope we were getting enough information.
But luckily, our English professor is really cool. We all have the same prof for english because English and Anthropology are clustered together, and on Mondays English comes right before Anthropology. Anyway, she was nice enough to give us the entire period to study, since the blackout on Thursday had thrown one of her other classes off schedule and it was easier for her to have us all on the same schedule.
So instead of 15 minutes, we ended up with 75 minutes to study, and that was a big help. We still had to completely guess on what topics to focus on, though, so it still sucked.
And then came the exam itself. Normally, exams in that class consist of two essays and ten vocab definitions. But since the professor had to make up a new test at the last minute, it was cut down to just the two essays. And of course they were on the topics we didn't focus heavily on in class.
And even on the normal tests, he says the same thing over and over: "Tell me how much you know, not how little." I never know if I'm writing enough for essay questions in general, and that kind of thing really doesn't help.
You couldn't even call what I wrote essays. It was just any random tidbits pertaining to the question I could think of all strung together with no rhyme or reason.
I think I did okay, but I guess I won't know for a few days. I'm pretty sure I didn't fail, at least. :/
The exam I had later that day in Intro to Computer Problem Solving went much better, and I finished in 30 minutes.
