farcical exam drama
Nov. 23rd, 2006 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dafjust got out of my binary mathematics exam [read multiple choice test].
igot into an argument had an academic debate with both the exam invigilator and the course leader concerning the answer to one of the questions.
now as most of you will know, the way you do well in a multiple choice question exam is by choosing the correct answer out of a group of potential answers of which all bar one are erroneous.
well, you can imagine my reaction to the assertion of my lecturer that "Cable" is not represented in ASCII as 43 61 62 6C 65.
here's the table they provided us with to decode "Cable"
The only answer on the test possibly derivable from the code given was 61 43 23 1B 53
which after about 10 minutes, both of them conceded was wrong.
</geek>
suffice it to say, i have made the exam slightly easier for the other students [there's now one less question to answer] and have asked difficult questions regarding the teaching of the module, because the lecturer responsible for teaching us ASCII has fucl<ed up big style.
in other news, the coursework i thought i'd missed the deadline for has been extended owing to similar answer issues...
lucky old me :)
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now as most of you will know, the way you do well in a multiple choice question exam is by choosing the correct answer out of a group of potential answers of which all bar one are erroneous.
well, you can imagine my reaction to the assertion of my lecturer that "Cable" is not represented in ASCII as 43 61 62 6C 65.
here's the table they provided us with to decode "Cable"
The only answer on the test possibly derivable from the code given was 61 43 23 1B 53
which after about 10 minutes, both of them conceded was wrong.
</geek>
suffice it to say, i have made the exam slightly easier for the other students [there's now one less question to answer] and have asked difficult questions regarding the teaching of the module, because the lecturer responsible for teaching us ASCII has fucl<ed up big style.
in other news, the coursework i thought i'd missed the deadline for has been extended owing to similar answer issues...
lucky old me :)