dont you hate it when you read something wrong on a test?

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Lifer
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i mean, i have consistently read some question wrong, or accidentally put down the wrong thing during test for one of my classes this summer.... I have caught some errors, and others just pass by...

consider one test, instead of writing atom, i kept writing electron. Those errors i caught. Once during such a correction, I erased electron meaning to write atom, and wrote the word electron again.

This past one I misread strength taking it for stress, and lost credit.

This is a materials class... (engineering).

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Of course in the past I have done the same thing. reading numbers wrong, and filling in the wrong "bubble" for those "scantron" tests.
 

SHoddyCOmp

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Yea i hate when that happens. I do that too. Im getting into mechanical Engineering myself.
 

Entity

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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That's why I take English courses. :D If you can BS well enough, you can get away with misinterpreting a story. :D

Rob
 

Scuttle

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All the time, one that sticks out to me was in a business studies exam the question was "What are the advantges of remaining a sole trader". Because of the bit before that I'd skipped over it and read it as "What are the advantages of being a private limited company"...so I lost quite a few easy marks there.

Since then I've gotten in to the habit of reading the questions at least 3 times...once word by word, just to be sure. :)
 

911paramedic

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"Choose the BEST answer" is the worst thing that ever happened to tests.

Air is (choose the best answer):
1. what we breathe
2. what surrounds the earth
3. what is in scuba tanks
4. what is in between test writers ears

:D
 

Juniper

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Things like that sure are common, it happens to me more often when I have not prepared for my exams properly, or when I have not had enuff sleep the previous night. :p