So I took my final final today, and it was the hardest test I think I have ever had. Typically when people complain about a test being hard, I just laugh and think they weren't prepared and should get over it. But this test today.... I admit I could have been better prepared, but even so, I think it was so hard as to be unfair.

He gave a us a practice test last week that had 30 questions. It took me most of the week to answer those questions, so I figured the actual exam would be like maybe 8 questions of that difficulty level, since we only have 2.5 hours to take the test. But no.... It was 30 questions, many of which were tougher than what was on the practice test. After 2.5 hours, no one was anywhere near done, and we were all pretty upset about the whole thing.

Of course I can say unfair all day long, but it doesn't matter. Fair is what the teacher decides. What really ticked me off was when he says, "But if you know what you are doing, these shouldn't be too hard." BS. Even if I knew how to answer every question, it would have taken me about 6 hours to finish that test, and most everyone else agreed with me. This is a class of grad students who are majoring in actuarial science, risk management, finance... So these aren't soft MBAs who like marketing classes, these are people who know math very well, and if all of us had such problems, then I think that counts as not fair. On the other hand, if the prof decides to define 50% as an A, I should do ok. And it's very possible he might do something like that.