Ah, a rant about exams, didn't have one of those for a while. Woe is me and all that.

[ridicully]

Words cannot describe how pissed off I am right now.

I really don't mind failing exams all that much. I can accept bad grades if they are justified.
All of course, because I know that it's my own fault for not studying enough or simply having bad luck when drawing the questions.

It annoys me to know that I answered the questions really well, not just by luck, but because I really *know* the stuff, and still not getting a good grade for some reason (mutual hate between the examiner and me; my seemingly confuse behaviour convincing the examiner that I might have answered the questions, but don't actually know what I'm talking about). It's unfair, but that's just life.

What pisses me of beyond measure, is getting grades that don't seem to be justified, and having someone else, whose answers were definitely worse - even by their own judgement - getting the same grade without any explanation.
Yeah, I could just say "That's life" in this case as well, but for some reason this is one of the things that triggers my temper.

Have I mentioned how much I hate oral exams this month yet?

Yes, I passed the exam. No it's not a really bad grade.
I'm still going to practice some kicks and hits for a while to calm down.
*seethes*

Comments

[alchemia.livejournal.com]

i hated school. It seemed pointless to me- the grades arbitrary with no reflection on what I actually knew. I used to fail exams because my handwriting was illegible, even though i knew all the material. I had teachers who'd fail me because they didn't like me as well.

[ridicully]

I can live with the arbitrary grades - as long as the same arbitrary rules apply to everyone. That's why I hate oral exams so much, one day the examiner wakes up with a headache and everyone who has an exam that day gets a worse grade than those who had an exam after he won the lottery. And there's no way to prove it.

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
Getting unjust grades suck, and others getting better grades for worse performance sucks even more.
*hugs again*
Will exams be over soon?

[ridicully]

Thank you.
And they will be over relatively soon. Well, in February. But I count that as soon *g*