haha I would NEVER write cuss words on a test. The part I made a note on was a diagram of a beetle. I wrote that 2 of the areas he asked us to identify had never come up in a key before and we had never talked about them in class or in the lab so that part was unfair. The rest of the test I answered fine.

Its stuff like if you write middle femur and he wanted meso femur. Even though its the same exact thing and you encounter both terms in different keys you will get marked off for it. And you can't tell when a pointer is pointing to the coxa whether he wants forecoxa, coxal cavity etc... you can have several different names depending on what part of the body part you're talking about so I just don't think that's fair to put something like that on a lecture exam.

Especially because we have a lab for the class also where we have to identify 50 insects by memory so obviously if we can identify them by those characteristics we know what we're looking at. grrr....i'm still mad lol