The Rant Book

Words I hate that begin with E

Ok, I know the title is weird, but HEAR ME OUT

what is the one word that probably most of us hate with so much passion that we could probably write a full 5000 word essay based off of it?  Think.  THINK REALLY HARD GUYS.

Nothing?

Okay hint #1: something to do with school?

.......

no?

alright ummm here's another hint: you usually do them at the end of the year, and sometimes in January too if you're in high school 

......

hint #3: it begins with an e, is a four letter word, and ends with an m (plural is 5 letters and with an s)

ALRIGHT DID YOU GUESS:

Exams

or

Exam

????

Congratualations!

You earn absolutely nothing sadly but you earn my invisible medal of smartness! :)

alright let's get a little serious

starting now!

SO  obviously I'm doing exams now because it's the end of the school year, and it's June.  So I'm right now I'm stuck at home attempting to study, but of course getting distracted in the process.  So I decided to rant about why I'm even studying when I should be out in the world having fun!

EXAMS ARE ABSOLUTELY AND UTTERLY POINTLESS

I basically said what I needed to say.  

But why are these exams absolutely and utterly pointless methods of torture? I don't even know.

I get the whole "testing" sort of idea, but the way I like to look at exams is that they're this huge test and basically everything you did in that semester, and probably in your entire lifetime of schooling in whatever subject you're getting tested on.

For example, I just did my math exam today, and you only get an hour and a half to do your exams in Grade 9.  The exam was 10 pages long, and lemme tell you, IT WAS NOT AN EASY EXAM.

Alright, I gotta hand it to my teacher, we got 26 multiple choice questions, but here's my big problem

THERE WAS STUFF I HAD NO IDEA WE ACTUALLY GOT TAUGHT/LEARNED

Like in our geometry unit there was like stuff on diagonals, and I'm pretty sure it's when you basically start putting lines all over a shape just to prove something about god-knows-what

Basically.

so guess what a good 5 questions were on?

DIAGONALS AND THEIR PURPOSE

I think I said it was about proving something, but to be honest, it wasn't like I even cared in the first place.  

Add that onto the fact that I couldn't understand half of the language used for the long answer questions.  Like, the entire point was to get confused but then when I say that I'm confused and I ask to get it given to me in a different way, apparently it's "GIVING AWAY THE ANSWER".  

so.

Guess who nearly didn't finish the math exam?  

Yours truly.

But anyways, I basically had to rush the last portion, and I had thankfully finished the question about some point of intersection, but I didn't get any time to check over my exam!  I was told to finish the question I was working on, and hand it in right after.

SO I COULDN'T CHECK MY WORK AND LORD KNOWS WHAT I DID WRONG.

hopefully i pass.

So there's that.

But Monday is my English exam, which is gonna be great, because I'm already great about ranting about exams, so you can imagine how much fun it's gonna be ranting about a theme in some Shakesperian play.

But what I really don't get about exams is this:

The teachers have already taught you all the concepts, and they've tested you probably in the past or given you assignements and stuff.

SO WHY GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING AND TEST US ON EVERYTHING AT ONCE!?

just something to think about as you sit drinking coffee at 1am cramming for your next exam.

GOOD LUCK FOR ANYONE DOING EXAMS THOUGH! 

Please don't die though.....it would be preferable.