I finished up my final final this afternoon around 12:45. I would have been done about 40 minutes earlier if it had not been for an exam riddled with mistakes that required finagling to figure out and make correct. The teacher's answer key had the last calculated control printed out as saying "Error." Something tells me that is not what it was supposed to say. While he was in the room, I had finished the entire test up to that point, and noticed that the function threw an error. Knowing he was a stickler for professional formatting and accuracy in our work, I raised my hand, and when acknowledged by him, inquired as to the problem. He said, "I don't know why it's an error." Well, pardon me for saying so, sir, but your test is saying an error is right, and you have nothing to say about it except, "I don't know"? And that was hardly the only error involved.
My other test, the one before it, beginning at eight o'clock in the morning, went much smoother. Although I took the entire two and a half hours to work over the test, I actually answered all the problems and multiple choice questions with quite a bit of time left. There were only six or so, out of 50, that I was unsure about, and although I was--and still am--certain I worked the cash flow correctly, it would not balance out, no matter what I tried. That is what I spent the most time on, actually: looking, searching, juggling, figuring, trying different things, but no matter what I did, I was consistently either 3000 or 5000 too high. Then came the journal entries, of which there were supposed to be 10, but there were only five. I think I worked them correctly, too, but I had a lively debate with some of the other guys in the class about which problem should have been worked what way.
Time shall tell. But for now, exams are behind me for at least a good month and a half--I hope I do not have a test earlier than the end of January!
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