Tox Test
I sort of deserved to do poorly on my toxicology exam today. Researching headcovering wearing and typing voluminous blog posts when I should have been studying about glutathione peroxidase and ischemia-reperfusion injury - it's really not justifiable.
At the very least, I expected to come up against some questions I had little clue about.
It was not so. And I'm not bragging about superior information retention, either.
Here's the deal - 285 pages of notes, 173 study questions. A large portion of the notes were unexaminable and we were strongly encouraged a couple times to study the study questions for the test.
Well, I read through a fair amount of the examinable stuff once, and focused on the material covered in the study questions.
As it turned out, all of the test questions were modified/identical copies of the study notes. So, I think I did okay.
All the students had the same chance of doing well, so it was sort of fair for me to do all right. However, if I had worn myself to a frazzle studying really hard for the test, I wouldn't have felt repaid for my efforts. If I had actually studied the notes themselves more and the questions less, and therefore got some of the questions wrong when those who studied the notes less aced the test, I would have felt disgusted.
But with that quantity of notes, it was the easiest fairest way for the professor to test us. It's her first time teaching the course, so I definitely give her quite a bit of slack for the note quantity. There's a lot that we should learn, so how would she decide what to discard? I also applaud her for writing so many notes (it took a lot of effort) and for doing it in advance of the course starting. She is very on top of things, she really wants us to learn, and she is a nice person above and beyond her professorly duties (I suppose that theoretically shouldn't go into an analysis of a professor, but it counts for a lot).
At the very least, I expected to come up against some questions I had little clue about.
It was not so. And I'm not bragging about superior information retention, either.
Here's the deal - 285 pages of notes, 173 study questions. A large portion of the notes were unexaminable and we were strongly encouraged a couple times to study the study questions for the test.
Well, I read through a fair amount of the examinable stuff once, and focused on the material covered in the study questions.
As it turned out, all of the test questions were modified/identical copies of the study notes. So, I think I did okay.
All the students had the same chance of doing well, so it was sort of fair for me to do all right. However, if I had worn myself to a frazzle studying really hard for the test, I wouldn't have felt repaid for my efforts. If I had actually studied the notes themselves more and the questions less, and therefore got some of the questions wrong when those who studied the notes less aced the test, I would have felt disgusted.
But with that quantity of notes, it was the easiest fairest way for the professor to test us. It's her first time teaching the course, so I definitely give her quite a bit of slack for the note quantity. There's a lot that we should learn, so how would she decide what to discard? I also applaud her for writing so many notes (it took a lot of effort) and for doing it in advance of the course starting. She is very on top of things, she really wants us to learn, and she is a nice person above and beyond her professorly duties (I suppose that theoretically shouldn't go into an analysis of a professor, but it counts for a lot).
posted by Claire at 16:51
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