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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Students storm out of exam hall in South Africa, say questions too tough

2018-08-31

[TRIBUNEONLINENG] STUDENTS at a university in South Africa gave up on writing an exam ‐ and started protesting that it was too difficult, local media reports say.

The incident happened during a philosophy exam at the University of Limpopo in the remote northern part of South Africa, BBC has said.

Videos have been posted on social media about the protest, with at least one student seen walking on a desk.

One of the students who asked not to be named told Sowetan Live that they were expecting a mix of difficult and easy questions, and were shocked that the exam was far more difficult than they had expected.

She said: To show that this test was unfair, the entire class walked out. Even those who are geniuses left."

Another student said: The lecturer himself does not understand philosophy. So how can he teach it to us? The test was not what we expected. It was set up to be difficult."

Posted by:Fred

#10 Had a slot to fill, once, and couldn't get ~~any~~ relevant elective, so I cheerfully signed up for a vaguely named philosphy class that I figured would be a total crip, since... yeah... I kinda liked philosophy. Turned out to be "Battle of the Neo-Thomists." Still features in nightmares once in a while.

Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-08-31 16:32

#9 Really, NOBODY understands philosophy.

Posted by: Glenmore 2018-08-31 15:27

#8 CrazyFool is probably correct.
Remember The Exam?

Posted by: james 2018-08-31 10:23

#7 Sounds like the "Professor" was incapable of teaching the course and did not properly prepare the students for what was in the test. Kind of like taking a course in Calc, being taught basic Algebra, and then trying to take an advanced Calc. Not good.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-08-31 09:38

#6 Studyin B. Hard: "Even those who are geniuses left."

Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-31 08:47

#5 if you had any 'geniuses' in your class, they would have stuck around and finished the test to break the grading curve just to fuck the rest of you over.

If they were geniuses, they would have finished the test long since, silly whiners. Whether they mained seated or turned in their test and left would no doubt depend on thr school’s exam rules. Nor would it necessarily require genius to do so — my father was the only one to answer the final question on a physics final because he’d read the day before, in the latest issue of the physics journal, the proof of the theorem that the professor put up on the board, thinking it impossible for undergrads to figure out on their own. Daddy wasn’t a genius, merely brilliant, but he’d made friends with the librarian, getting access to the journals before they were circulated among the professors.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-31 07:50

#4 Students are vermin!

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-31 06:13

#3 We had a take home em-fields exam in EE in college that only 3 people in the class passed.
The other EE profs took the test and the prof was not offered a contract to continue the following year.
That's the way a complaint is done for tests.

Posted by: 3dc 2018-08-31 05:48

#2 Missed this part:

"Even those who are geniuses left."

That's bullshit - if you had any 'geniuses' in your class, they would have stuck around and finished the test to break the grading curve just to fuck the rest of you over. Well, worse than you fucked yourselves over with your self-defeating temper tantrum.

Next year when I see you, I would like fries with that burger.

Posted by: Raj 2018-08-31 00:33

#1 Just when you thought U.S. students were the softest pansy snowflakes in the world - thanks for bailing us out this time!

Posted by: Raj 2018-08-31 00:16

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