Sweating the exam

In the two photography courses this year I repeatedly assured the students that all they had to do was come to class, do the assignments and they would pass with a nice grade. Last week we actually reviewed the exam....their exam. They put their names on them and I took them up at the end of the class to pass out again on exam day.

Their semester grade and work was completed before the exam but it's a school requirement to take a written exam to pass the course. It's a rule but not MY rule. I'm good with all that.

So, folks made lists of the correct multiple choice letters, a couple tried to sneak the exams out without returning them after the review, one student made an anagram of the letters to the answers on the whole test. There was more effort made to game the system than it would have taken just to know the information. Multiple choice? Even an illiterate dog from another planet gets 25%.

I must have forgotten something about the terror of the semester-ending exam.

Just drove by the campus. Kid standing out in the rain in pajamas and fuzzy slippers waiting to cross the street. Some of us are carrying guns.....they are going to exams in PJs.