Ouch. Just got my a$$ handed to me. aka: Fire alarms + exams = bad

[silverpig]

So I'm doing my physics final today and about 1/4 of the way through the fire alarm goes off. So we all go outside and wait. We come back in and continue working for another 1.5 hrs when the alarm goes off AGAIN, this time with about 1 hr left in the exam.. Sigh. Okay, so we all go outside again, come back in and continue writing.

Word is there's not going to be a re-scheduling either, which really sucks as the test was extremely hard. One girl left crying after the first fire alarm, and most others weren't too pleased with their performances either. Ah well.

 

[NutBucket]

Is it not curved?

 

[Heisenberg]

One girl left crying after the first fire alarm, and most others weren't too pleased with their performances either.

Yep, sounds about right for a physics test.

 

[silverpig]

Might be... probably not though. He didn't scale the first midterm, and only scaled the second one because the average was ~50%. Here's hoping.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Complain, tell everyone else to complain, and then complain some more.

 

[Gyrene]

Fire alarm goes off almost every night around 2 or 3 up here...I always sleep through it, because I know it's not real.

 

[raptor13]

What school?

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Might be... probably not though. He didn't scale the first midterm, and only scaled the second one because the average was ~50%. Here's hoping.

I think it would be VERY unfair if he didn't curve this exam given the circumstances.

 

[Cooljt1]

Originally posted by: dtyn
Fire alarm goes off almost every night around 2 or 3 up here...I always sleep through it, because I know it's not real.

well...we know how your gonna die...

 

[Platypus]

Happened during my test, the proctor said "don't leave, it's probably fake," and then 2 minutes he goes into the hall and comes back saying "Ok we should leave now." Everyone just left and he rescheduled the exam. I thought it was funny.

 

[Gyrene]

Originally posted by: Cooljt1

Originally posted by: dtyn
Fire alarm goes off almost every night around 2 or 3 up here...I always sleep through it, because I know it's not real.

well...we know how your gonna die...

Nah, if there was an actual fire, and it was near my room, I'd just climb out my window. I'm on the first floor.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: raptor13
What school?

University of British Columbia

It was kinda funny because the fire alarm had been going off for about 3-4 minutes with no one wanting to move for fear of getting some kind of penalty and this lady comes in: "Alright everyone, in case you hadn't noticed, there IS a fire alarm going off." no fvcking sh!t lady. "Everyone should leave now."

So we all did as we were told. Of course it was faked. The second time it went off I asked if we should go, but the supervisors just stared at me like I was retarded. After about 3-4 minutes this guy comes in and says: "You all have to get out NOW. It's university policy. I don't care that this is a final."

Heh those supervisors sure looked stupid then.

Thing is, the prof is out of town right now as I think he's the head of a project going on at Brookhaven National Labs in NY. I think he's there right now, so we can't really phone him or anything. I guess a few of us will write emails.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: dtyn
Fire alarm goes off almost every night around 2 or 3 up here...I always sleep through it, because I know it's not real.

I used to have that problem when I was in the dorms. Every bar night (Wednesday) there'd be a guaranteed fire alarm at 3 am. You'd get in major sh!t if you didn't get up too. Then that turned into a war between two buildings, phonebooks in the microwaves, dead fish in the heaters, fire alarm after fire alarm... It got to the point where there were 4 in one night once and I had a final to go to the next morning. I just went and slept outside the test room for a few hours. Got my ass handed to me on that one too.

 

[ScottyB]

Why the hell would they set off a fire alarm test during exams?

 

[rgwalt]

Complain often. You probably won't be tested again or given an extension, but hopefully he will curve the class.

My profs never "curved" exams. They "curved" the class at the end of the semester by sorting the class by grades and looking for natural breaking points.

R

 

[J0hnny]

Man, if you guys left during the test to go outside, why didn't you guys collaborate with each other for the answers?!?!?!?! Sheesh! I'd take that then complaining anyday!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Why the hell would they set off a fire alarm test during exams?

I guess someone really didn't want to take their exam... It wasn't a drill or anything. They don't have those

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: J0hnny
Man, if you guys left during the test to go outside, why didn't you guys collaborate with each other for the answers?!?!?!?! Sheesh! I'd take that then complaining anyday!

They were very strict about no talking about the exam. Professors were littered amongst us. We did manage to communicate to each other that the test was kicking our asses so far though. Much more difficult than the midterms.

 

[EvilYoda]

Seriously, you should have cooperated with one another outside...I know a lot of people start at different points in the exam, so you could see what's coming up and review formulas, equations and theories! oh well, hope it turns out well

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Seriously, you should have cooperated with one another outside...I know a lot of people start at different points in the exam, so you could see what's coming up and review formulas, equations and theories! oh well, hope it turns out well

We were given a basic sheet with Maxwell's equations in differential form and a bunch of vector identities etc. Most of the test was deriving other formulas which we were given, or finding values of fields at certain points etc. It wouldn't have made much difference. Besides, no one wanted to get caught.