LOL - The wonders of the educational system

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 4:11 am

Hiya I just had to gloat a bit

I was just up in a final in a class called Technology (directly translated)
It holds subject regarding:
Computer architecture,
Network - both physical (wires, switch, brigde etc) and software (protocols and algorithmes)
Memorymanagment in regards of virtuel memory, physical memory, harddrives (with various search algorithmens) etc.
Database both distributed and centralized
Distributed systems (client/server)
Distributed and centralized file systems of various kinds
Interprocess communication
etc

All of these subjects have sub-topics.

I know maybe 5% of these subjects and was at my final.
Danish exames goes like: you draw a question and you get some time to prepare (most often) and you present what you have prepared. (in this case 30 min. preparation and 25-30 min. examination)

One lucky draw landed me 1 of the areas I know about because I*ve read extra on it (hard subject) namely Virtual Memeory (pageing/swapping and various).

I got the grade of 10 wich is the 3rd highest you can get ... and 13 (highest) is very very hard to get. The 5 before me got the grades from 5 (wich is 3rd lowest) to 7. (6 is pass)
None of the topics these people had drawned would have landed me such a grade (I think).

I laughed all the way home - I can walk away form a class I barely know ... well to be truthful, I can use some of it in my programming, but don't know the theory behind ..... with such a good grade.

"The Wonders of the Educational System" strikes again - how injust such examinations are .... right now though - I don't care, but still ........

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 4:35 am

Congrats on a good grade then... I think

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 4:46 am

Ditto.

...although personally, if you can make use of what you learned for practical purposes, chances are you did well in that subject regardless of the "final grade."

Still, you got that real good.

josh · Post by **josh** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:59 pm

I find that a few weeks after a test, I can't remember the things I studied for it. When I look back on them, I keep asking myself How on earth did I do that?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:39 pm

After a series of calculus and quantum mechanics...

Originally posted by josh
I find that a few weeks after a test, I can't remember the things I studied for it. When I look back on them, I keep asking myself How on earth did I do that?

...I ask myself that same question.

James Mason · Post by **James Mason** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:56 pm

I hope I do as well as you on the SAT's on Saturday.
Congrats

Ode to a Grasshopper · Fri Jun 06, 2003 10:51 am

Out of curiousity, has anyone found any situation in the 'real world' (so to speak) that reflected typical test conditions? Things like ridiculously short time limits while being denied access to any information besides what you could remember, that sort of thing?

I know I haven't.

Bordin_Steelaxe · Post by **Bordin_Steelaxe** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:26 am

Ammen tilløkk, så ble' det til en enkelt bajer eller to vel?

I won't translate this, there are children around here after all

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:28 am

Originally posted by Bordin_Steelaxe
Ammen tilløkk, så ble' det til en enkelt bajer eller to vel?

I won't translate this, there are children around here after all

hehe - naa home to study for next final.

Wil be systemdevelopment and programming.

These subjects I know very very well and can use all of it .... that will likely meen I will go down hard

@Das_Hermit: nope I haven't - that is why I'm laughing at my grade. Because it says nothing about what I know of that subject

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:54 pm

Originally posted by das_hermit
Out of curiousity, has anyone found any situation in the 'real world' (so to speak) that reflected typical test conditions? Things like ridiculously short time limits while being denied access to any information besides what you could remember, that sort of thing?

I know I haven't.

There was this time when I was locked in a cell filling up with water, with only six rounds to figure out a cypher on the wall in French or I would die.

No wait, that was my pretend life again.

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:52 am

tillyke tilykke. ah the wonders of the danish school system. acouple of years (2) to my own exam thank god. im only a 7th grader. anybody know what this would be in american school system. i never figured out