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I liked this. It’s so true!
I second that!
You guys evidently all suck at school. I think I’ve only felt like this once in my life and coincidentally it was for a class I totally disregarded most of the semester.
I’m in grad school now so as a TA I see the other side of the coin: trying to design the exams. Profs frequently really go out of their way to make exams as straightforward as possible; the average college student is simply dumber every year and no matter how simple you make the damn exam students still fail and somehow try to find ways to blame you for it.
I agree. Ive never run into this. actually, 90 credits into school
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. All because -you- have been lucky enough to have fantastic teachers all throughout your college career, doesn’t mean everyone else has had that luxury.
If a good majority of the students are not doing well on a/n exam(s), chances are it’s the idiot professor who doesn’t know how to write an exam properly, or how to use a Scan-Tron machine.
Of course you’re going to get your idiot students who blame the instructor and they probably really are idiots. But there are a lot of idiot instructors out there, too, so it’s ridiculous of you to put the blame on only the student.
FAIL.
No, if the professor really is an idiot, you should be able to figure out what he would put on the exam. In fact, you should be able to do this for every single course. The problem is always you, not the professor.
A class of 300 students get an average of 25 points on a 125 point exam. Its the professor’s fault. Some portion of that class has to have studied hard, and with 300 kids you have at least 3 who dedicated their lives to passing this course. they still got less than 50%. Its the professor’s fault.
I have to disagree because it’s not always the students. I just took an exam where half of it we never discussed. Then again all semester the teacher has done jack squat to teach us anything she expects us to know everything to start. So it doesn’t surprise me that the exam had nothing to do with anything she taught.
Maybe it’s just your school or the class you TA. I’m also a grad student, and have been a TA for about 5 classes so far. And in every single one, the professor does put questions on there that are extremely obscure, and that were only just barely touched on in class. While there are (of course) other questions on the exams that cover material focused on in class, I’ve seen tests that have about 75% obscure material. And yes, there are those students that will fail no matter what. In all probability, there always will be. However, I have yet to really find a professor that will “go out of their way” to make the exams straightforward. Some problems are naturally straightforward, but I’ve never found large quantities of effort to make it so. And this comes from 140 credits of undergrad and 58 credits of grad.
Lol, you idiot. It’s a joke; get a life. Go study for your Masters.
joke (jk)
n.
1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
b. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
This is: 1, 3 and 4a
burnnnnnnn
Wow…
Sense of humour fail.
Seriously.
I totally agree with you there!!
That’s why they’re grad students and TAs rather than entertainers and stand up comics. Enjoy screwing over nice folks so you can feel important! I’m sure it’s just as rewarding as good customer service or a successful gig.
It’s not us that suck, it’s the teacher that sucks if they present you with material on a test that wasn’t even remotely gone over.
lolz @ your overreaction to something I just found using StumbleUpon.
I hate you.
I have to agree with this guy, I am doing a PhD now and my experience from under and postgrad is: professors don’t like to have a high fail margins. Its bad on them and on there department. They tend to take approx 50% of an exam out of the tutorials or in class problems (seen, but values changed), the other 50% is for your brain to work out (test of competency).
The most noteworthy thing I have found in my college career, is that undergraduates seem to have this concept that if a lecturer doesn’t cover it ‘fully’ then it cant!! come up, bulls**t!!. The lecturer only need mention a topic and it can come up. It is you who has to do the background reading and also develop on it by doing questions. Just coping what the lecturer did in class is pointless, it just means you have a degree in how to copy a guy from a whiteboard/blackboard/chalkboard for 3-4 years.
And when I say mention I mean, if he gives out a course overview then he has mention all he needs. You should be happy he is lecturing you in-depth.
Remember the lecturer is really only supposed to give you the basics of a subject, your responsible for its development in your mind.
It’s really just supposed to be funny, jackass. It’s comments like these that piss me off. The degradation of a humorous society. It’s a true shame to not be able to appreciate this picture with a simple “haha.”
lol what’d you do? sleep with the teacher?
wow…..just wow…..get off the internet. If you can’t enjoy a good laugh because it doesn’t apply to you, then don’t ruin it for everyone else. please GTFO
Haha you sound like a bitch. You probably majored in a garbage field, such as business. You are probably a TA for psychology or something. Get real, and stop trying to make yourself feel better by acting smarter than everyone else.
So, since you’re a high and mighty TA, and consequently a student, and getting dumber every year, do you feel no responsibility towards your students and their failure. You should probably attribute that in some part to poor instruction on your part and not a failure of base intelligence on the part of the student. Fact remains college acceptance is harder than ever to achieve, leading to a more intelligent student base.
Also, Universities do not promote, as a whole, instruction, but research on part of their professors. Most instructors are, quite frankly, too damn busy trying to publish research to attain tenure/keep a position, that they don’t care about instruction. This means they lose sight of their own material, lectures, and content, causing charts like the one above to be true. Quite frankly I don’t care if you’re TA, you’re still a student, one who seems to have an ego problem because they were placed in a position of instruction. Your job, or what your job should entail, is instructing, not writing off students before you even try to gauge their potential.
In other words… Shut up it was a joke… can the ego.
It’s just meant to be funny dude…take a chill pill…
I think we ALL feel that way.
I actually had a test where the results curve was an inverted bell curve.
That’s right, the test had nothing to do with what people knew.
how does that imply that it had nothing to do with what people knew? classes get split into two groups, one of which gets it, and the other of which doesn’t frequently.
It’s called a bi-modal distribution. It happens when the teacher taught the material, and half the class doesn’t bother to study. If half the class did well and the other failed, obviously the information was available. It’s because people expect tests to be a regurgitation of the homework or some simple examples, and don’t bother using their brains to work through problems with more than one layer to them.
It needs an extra section for things missed on sick days
And how. I’m glad I’m done with college.
sad but true.
I’m your dream, make you real
I’m your eyes when you must steal
I’m your pain when you can’t feel
LOL. Good one.
That was SO my Econ 101 class last semester.
D is for Diploma, and that’s good enough for me.
(8) Ohh, Diploma-ploma-ploma starts with D!!!!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. oh, why can I see this being sung at convocation at a backwater college/university?
Whatever happened to reading around your subject?
Sadly, I am living this right now. :/
I came here for the nitpicking “Venn diagram fail” comments, and am leaving disappointed.
So I’m giving unto you guys a speling mistake so you can bring this thread to where it should be – splitting hairs.
I read the comments for the same reason.
Disappointment :[
iz missin deh circle 4 things applicable to the real werld
ur doin it rite
Epic. Win. <3
Too right man.
I can relate to this at this exact moment.
Exams are useless and a flawed method of assessment and this chart shows why.
So……
How bad is your GPA?
I agree with Steve W, and I have a 4.0.
You do in your bollux otherwise you wouldn’t agree with him as this would not be applicable to you a perfect score!!!! It would completely defy the graph!
As do I with a 3.8
Isn’t he who administers the final exam the same person who taught the course?
yeppers!
Not always. In some cases, TAs teach material as instructed by the professor, who will come to maybe two classes throughout the course. I’ve taken a few courses now where we saw the professor on the first day of classes, and then again on exam day, where we took an exam that he or she had constructed.
Granted, I live in England and I’m not in uni yet, but…
Our exams are set by an exam board who have nothing to do with the school. They just give the school a list of things we need to learn. There’s about 5 different exam boards as well…
I dunno about in America, but the teachers aren’t the ones who set the final exams. Not here anyway. Which unfortunately makes this graph pretty accurate XD
And before I get a bunch of douchebags asking me how thick I am in order to make a point, I do actually get A grades…
Same. I’m only in Year 10, but I’m taking some of my GCSE’s early, and I’ve been predicted A’s and A*’s in all that I’ve done up until now…
It does kind of suck that the exam board set the questions, and we’re expected to know all the answers, regardless of whether or not we’ve actually ever been taught the material.
That happened to me on my World History final in freshman year. We didn’t go over 60% of the topics on that final.
Ain’t that the truth.
They installed portable defibrillator pack wall-lockers the week before finals. Either they’ve had problems with finals before, or it’s warranted by the age of the instructors, or both.
HAHAHA
The first time I laughed out loud all day.
true graph… and then you have the SATS or whatever they were. idiot people making ‘generic’ tests to rate people at. like trying shove a cacti into a condom.
then again, my college classes were so easy, even with not paying attention, and almost no homework done, i had yummy scores
Unroll it smoothly and evenly. Use an appropriate size. Do not pull or stretch. Cactus condoms, for your protection and pleasure.
*laf*laf*laf*!!
Story of my damn life.
Oh my gawd.
This graph is absolutely spot-on!
are any of you7 guys doign IB?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
test on monday
haha tomorrow man! English paper 1
thank god you don’t have to study for that. I am not ready for this month…
haha yeah same… was pretty easy though. sl? i still have 13 to go, sucks so much!
nope i have HL, and tomorrow HL math :/ haha i still have 14 to go, and im so happy i didn’t take history
the things i studied bubble should be smaller
xD true, true.
soooo true!!!!!! they tell you what might be in the exam. but they liE!
My profs didn’t lie to me… but they did give me a list of 100 possible “short answer” questions, and then they put 10 on the exam. Guess which 10 I couldn’t remember?
The only thing that this is truly missing is the nebulous blob entitled “Things in the textbook”. It takes up a good portion, but not all of the area of “Things on the Exam” that does not coincide with “Things in the Course”, about half of the area where “Things on the Exam” and “Things in the Course” overlap, a small amount of area under “Things in the Course”, but this is also overlapped by “Things I Studied”, and an area about the size of “Things in the Course” that doesn’t coincide with anything.
I can’t follow this. Maybe you could post a graph somewhere on the internet to clarify?
Zang.
always, man, always…
This is not true all it :S nor is it really that funny. If nothing you’ve studied shows up on the exam then you obviously haven’t studied.
Anyone remember when Graphjam was funny? it was about song lyric references, not the most pessimistic people in the world over exaggerating and whinging about everything!
Yeah, either you, as a person, are a complete failure, or your college has failed you.
understanding sarcasm fail
Agreed. I really miss the song reference graphs – they were great!
Yeah I hate it when you don’t show up to classes or read any of the material, and then the exam covers the stuff you didn’t bother paying attention to!
What do those professors think they are, teachers or something?
some people really don’t understand sarcasm here…
For me the “Things I studied” circle would be a bit smaller
I wonder if I’d even have one…
And that’s why I never bother studying.
jesus did any of you take the IB HL math paper 2 tz2 exam? Question 12 was a prime example of this
Very, very true. I took my History Exam today and absolutely NONE of the questions were things we studied this entire year. Some of the questions were about things I learned last year, and some questions were about things we hadn’t even been planning on studying this year.
You can study all year and still not know what’s being asked on the test. I took the AP American History exam a few days ago and none of what I bothered studying was on the test. All the questions were designed to test our knowledge of what feminists and black people had been doing. Now, I don’t object to a few questions like that but when that takes precedence over questions about political/intellectual/religious developments that affected all Americans, something is wrong. Shifting a narrow focus from one side to another doesn’t fix the problem.
So true!
High school Spanish…that’s the only time I ever felt like crap was on the test that was not in the freaking book. It was the only class I ever made C’s for the semester in up until college. Now college…who knows? I was drunk 80-90% of the time…but still graduated somehow.
i just have 2 xams today and that completely true
too true to be true. (paradox FAIL!)
I don’t know…have you ever been in Nursing school??? You can’t be taught how to critically think….these exams are way more difficult than any other test I’ve ever taken.
That’s how it always happens
I’ve just completed my first exam for the semester … we were told that the exam was going to be 40 multi-choice and 6 short answer questions …. it was 60 multi-choice, 14 short answer questions (to be completed in the same time frame) and there were questions on the exam that was about content none of us ever remember learning.
So for me, this diagram is pretty acurate…
I’m doing a social science and I totally agree with you some people have no sense of humor!! But, you will always get those people who have to be serious 24/7
EPIC FAIL!!!!
You’re getting a degree in a social science? I hope you like working at mcDonalds…
I never knew that a simple joke like this could become such a “SERIOUS” argument with so many. Its like COME ONE PEOPLE its just a joke!!!! You undergrad/grad/and PhD people do know what a joke is right?!?! If not then you’re the idiots. Really you just ruined the joke for those who read your comments. Grow up, learn what a sense of humor is and once you do GET ONE!!!!!!!!!
Thats how i felt after studying for a Geometry final
This is exactly what medical school feels like :OP
Glad someone made a graph of that! It happens more often than I’d care to admit
funny stuff
This is the damn truth
This is sooo true! I’ll study the things that seem relevant to me and don’t pay as close attention the the other stuff, and there’s, like, two questions about the stuff I studied so hard on, and the rest is stuff I’ve never even heard of!
Wow! this shows the amount of discontent with the education systems around the world!
God’s sake people… its a joke! laugh… and then move on!
Use all this passion for something else… your life maybe
You guys are actually having a debated discussion on a chart that was meant as a joke.. lighten up!
I have a 4.0, but I also take a class where the PSY prof. wants you to answer which specific part of the brain affects what and how a lesion would affect that, none of which was even IN the book. I have online classes and refuse to cheat by using the internet / Google during a test, so I barely scraped by with a 75. These exams are out there.
I have also, seen the other side where people skip class for football games and show up to a straight forward exam that the majority breeze through, and they fail miserably.
Bottom line – It is a joke aimed at the people who HAVE had the experience, and to us it is amusing. (yes, engineer, even us “garbage” business majors lol)
To the prof. & TA? Obviously, not so much…
most of you need to get a life.
a) if you are studying for your masters, why are you stumbling (which is likely how most of you found this) or f***ing off on the internet?
b)despite your status in your educational career, you could still attempt to see the humour in things.
for example-
i graduated high school at 16, am halfway through with my bachelors in psychiatry while also studing photography through NYI AND I’m a Army wife (at 18) and I found this funny…
Can you say BUZZKILL!
This is yet another funny picture that I have StumbledUpon and I’m noticing a growing trend of people taking a joke seriously and then arguing about it! Anyone else seen the pizza formula pic?!
P.S. This pic is funny because most students will agree there is an ironic truth in this. Discuss
You could change it to two circles: Pink: what the teacher presented and green, what the student learned. I know higher education is not a baby sitting service. By the time your in university you really shouldn’t need the teacher to go through every step. The idea is to learn problem solving. Nothing you ‘learned from rote” will be used in the real world.
None the less- humourous