In my psychology class, all of our exams are done online. We have an exam weekly, we can take it whenever we want through the school's online system, which is the most unstable internet phenomenon in existence.

We get one attempt at the test. We lose a point for every minute we go over 30 minutes. That one attempt starts when you open the test. Which means, if the online test crashes, your internet goes out, or whatever, congratulations, you just failed the test, unless you were really close to finishing.

Last week, it crashed on me. I emailed the professor and he cleared my attempt and let me take it again, I got a 24/25 that time.

Just now, it crashed on me AGAIN, I was on question 7. I emailed the professor, but never got a reply. After a while of waiting I decided to check to see if he cleared my attempt and simply forgot to reply. It let me back on, on question 7, where I left off, except the timer READ over 40 minutes!

I finished question 7-25 in 7 minutes, thus it took me 47 minutes to "take the test" (It actually took me under 15 minutes if you only count the time I ACTUALLY SPENT taking the test, 1-7 probably took me about 5 minutes, and 7-25 took another 7 (I rushed))

Oh, and I got a 22 out of 25. Pretty good score considering I rushed through the last 18 problems. I lost 17 points for going over the 30 minute time limit, now I have a 5 out of 25.

I hate this so much.

This post has been edited by afriendlyatheist: Sep 18 2009, 10:59 AM