So I'm generally open to accepting criticism when I mess up on a test and accept that when I get a bad grade it's because I just didn't study enough. Well this final I took yesterday for Entomology was the worst I have ever taken. I thought tests were a way to test what you learned over the semester.

We went over caste systems of insects on 3 separate occasions but never got tested on it. We went over several different groups being parasites and their life cycle...didn't get tested on that. We learned about the dances bees use to signal where a food source is....didn't get tested on that.

Instead he puts a diagram of a beetle on there (he gave us a handout of this but said it was for our own personal use and we never actually went over it) and took a handful of families known to be plant feeders and asked us which ones had a SINGLE SPECIE of predator in them!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

I took 5 finals this semester. That was the only one that I truly felt was written to trick the students and I hate that. Every other test of his I felt was fair and accepted that I just didn't learn something or I messed something up. But I can guarantee you I didn't get above a 75% on that test and I know well over 75% of the material. That, to me, signals that a test was not written the way it should be. I had hopes of getting an A in this class which are now out the window.

Gosh I'm so friggen livid right now. Oh and I wrote that on the test how horrible it was. I'm sure I'll be getting crap for it soon. But I really don't care. That is NOT how you test students. How horrible....to write a test over stuff you KNOW the students wouldn't study because it's such minuscule details and then ignore the huge things that we discussed several times.