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Night Prowler said:
Mom texts me: let's buy you a mobile phone for your birthday.

Me: Wow, that's surprising... but sure. Actually, better wait until I get a contract at work for indefinitely, otherwise I might be unemployed for my birthday...

Mom: I actually meant to say for Manfriend's birthday. Damn auto-correct.

Me:
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Now she turned the tables against me for not wanting to participate in the present purchasing. I don't want to spend 1/7 of my wage on his birthday present, and on a present I think he won't like. My mom said I should be ashamed.

WITCH HUNT!!!!!
 
Why do newspaper articles about bowel symptoms always have to have the same type of illustration: someone sitting at the toilet, pants down, the picture cropped knee-level? It's unimaginative and unpleasant. :(
 
I just took part on my first online exam ever, for an Open University course. 20 statements, click right or wrong. The questions were very difficult, and I got 11/20 points. I feel like an idiot, because I couldn't even answer ones on stuff I know. The statements were just too difficultly worded. If this level continues, I'm lucky if I pass the course with the worst possible grade. Well done Lamia. :(
 
I'm teaching next semester and I really hope it's not going to be online.
 
The online course has been great for me so far: online lectures that are recorded and I can watch whenever I like, online textbook, online return for exercises. Much easier, because I'm doing this at the same time as a full-time job. Not sure it's such fun for the lecturer. I think it takes more work, and it may not be fun talking to yourself during the lecture, without seeing any student faces.
 
Lamia020281 said:
I just took part on my first online exam ever, for an Open University course. 20 statements, click right or wrong. The questions were very difficult, and I got 11/20 points. I feel like an idiot, because I couldn't even answer ones on stuff I know. The statements were just too difficultly worded. If this level continues, I'm lucky if I pass the course with the worst possible grade. Well done Lamia. :(
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Don't feel like an idiot. On the site of VDAB (the flemish job placement bureau) there are a lot of online tests which are often too difficult and
in 80% of the cases never needed in the jobs they were intended for! Out of curiosity I did a test for a job in which I have years experience. I scored just 12/20. Those questions are put up in a way multiple answers are possible and you always end up picking the wrong answer. For a resaon: that way you have to follow their courses.
 
Lamia020281 said:
I just took part on my first online exam ever, for an Open University course. 20 statements, click right or wrong. The questions were very difficult, and I got 11/20 points. I feel like an idiot, because I couldn't even answer ones on stuff I know. The statements were just too difficultly worded. If this level continues, I'm lucky if I pass the course with the worst possible grade. Well done Lamia. :(
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Yes, well done Lamia! You may not have done as well as you hoped, but the point is you did it - a lot of people wouldn't have even got that far. Also remember that there are skills involved in handling and passing different types of exams which are completely distinct from knowing your subject: this was your first online exam, so you can't be expected to have picked it all up yet. You'll do better next time - forewarned is forearmed and all that ;)
 
Thanks for your encouragement! :) The wording and the inner logic of the questions was indeed part of the problem, not so much that I didn't know the actual content. I guess I'll see if the lecturer says something about the level of difficulty on the next lecture, if she doesn't, I might give some feedback. Surely it isn't the purpose that people who know the content, fail the course.
 
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