What the huh?

Holy crap! I knew my blogging was going to take a hit once school started, but I'm really pushing it here. So, I've decided that Thursdays are my new favorite day of the week...well, they will be after this one anyway. Tonight, I have to retake my first test before class since I failed to achieve the required 80% the first time. This prof has a seriously screwed up testing policy for these though. He calls them Mastery Tests and we take them every week on Tuesday, the tests are based on a couple of chapters from the book, and are a combination of vocabulary/essay questions. I will admit, I was not even close to prepared for the first one, since it was on the Tuesday following a weekend where I was tied up and away from home without access to my syllabus (not literally tied up). Basically, I didn't know the test was occurring until Monday morning when I looked at the syllabus. I got 13 out of 16 points, 16 needed to achieve the 80%. Now, this is where it begins to get cloudy and make, well really, no sense at all. If you do not achieve 80%, you must retake the test during office hours within a week, and you only get to retake it once. The glitch is that you are not retaking this test to try to improve upon your original score, that's not possible. The 2nd go round, you HAVE to achieve 80% (or 16 pts), just to keep your original test score, otherwise your score turns to '0'. So, in other words, if I do pass tonight, I will get my 13 points, even if I score, say a 20 tonight. Meanwhile, this also inhibits a student's ability to study for the next test so they don't fall into the same ol' trap again! Today, I am awaiting the results of my test from this past Tuesday, which I feel I did a much better job on and am confident I will receive at least the 16 pts needed, but I guess we'll see what kind of a grader he is. In a way...I don't even care if I have to take this first test in the shorts, I'm tired of studying and have a weekend full of it in front of me.

So, after tonight...Thursday will be my new favorite day of the week because the Thursday night session of this class is much more laid back...with students doing presentations, much like debates. And then, I have 4 days off from school! It's a beauteous thing really.