just deleted my exam reports

[percival]

let's face it, I'm crap and didn't study thoroughly enough. And no amount of whingeing over the exam setters' alleged incompetence will change that.

Comments

[scieppan.livejournal.com]

Please, please, please, do not say that you're crap.

What the heck happened?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the questions were badly put. Multiple choice where none of the answers is right? Or where the right answer is a half truth?

it was frustrating.

e.g. the only two ok alternatives for cash flow were
the flow of money in and out of the business (that should read cash for it to be right afaik) or the flow of products for cash (which is not quite right either, because cash flow is about cash income and cash outgoings)

[scieppan.livejournal.com]

So what happened? Did you get your exam results back?

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll know in July whether I passed and how many questions I've got right. But they won't give us any feedback on our answers - they'll just give us the percentage.

Ach, I'll have passed, it's just that I know I could have done better.

Especially if they hadn't been asking all those employment law questions that nobody knew about ;)

[scieppan.livejournal.com]

OK, then no self-flagellation until you know what happened. My goodness! Knock it off! ;-)

[mollymcgonagall.livejournal.com]

Ah, Maria, I don't know if it will help, but here's a hug.

[poconell.livejournal.com]

The last thing you are is crap! It will end up fine in the end.

::Hugs:: Just chant to yourself:

::It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter!::

[chrysantza.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

*hugses*

You're lovely. And the incompetence is important - you need to get onto the board and make a note of it.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

You are *so* not crap. *hugs*

I'm sure things will turn out all right. *hugsagain*

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

Everyone else has already said it, but good luck believing it.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the exams around here. They only tell us if we passed or failed; we didn't know if we got the minimum 70% or 98%. It was frustrating but when all was said and done, the semantics of the questions didn't really matter.

What's worse, I was in the last batch that took the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists unique examination, rather than the National Certifying Board Exam. They use a set of test questions in there that don't count, but they don't tell you which ones they are.

The entire thing was an exercise in frustration. I was sure I hadn't passed the written exam so that I might be able to go on to the practical portion. I spent months waiting, and then everyone else I knew got their results back and I hadn't. I ended up calling and asking to have the results sent out again, as the people at the massage board aren't allowed to discuss results over the phone. Fortunately the person I spoke to suggested that I might want to not make any plans for a certain weekend in October (the weekend the practicals were held), so I was relieved to hear that I had in fact passed.

You'll be fine. Exams always leave a bad taste in our mouths.

It's hard to study enough when the topics covered are so wide and varied, and they don't tell you exactly which pieces you need to know. It's hardly fair.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Aww, that is ... torture. there are so many things I have to say about this way of setting exams.

Like, what about giving accurate feedback on your knowledge? allowing you to learn from mistakes? telling you which areas you still need to work on?

very belated hugs back in time - waiting for these morons to come through with your result must have been AGONY

[acusa-dora.livejournal.com]

It sounds like no one could have been prepared from what you've told us. I'll just echo everyone else. You are not crap and you know it. Don't you know that the motivation of licensing exams is to keep the competition down?

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

You are way too hard on yourself (and this from me!).

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[shakes stern paw of remonstration] NOT allowed to call yourself crap just 'cause you're frustrated with other peoples' bureaucracy.