Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
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Today, after having spent all of last night studying for an algebra test, I find out that the test was on a completely different chapter of my textbook. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I finished an exam in physics class. It counts for 40% of our grade. As I handed my paper in to my teacher, she said to the whole class while talking about me, "You did this wrong; this isn't how you do it." FML
Today, the final for a class I'm in is taught by a decrepit old man who apparently has a flunk-out reputation. He spent the entire previous class making a study guide for the final exam, emphasizing, "THIS is on the exam. Know THIS." I studied it hard. Absolutely none of it was on the exam. Everyone failed. FML
Today, I found out that my mother has been seeing my maths teacher. I'm still failing his class. FML
Today, a few people in my class used calculators on the math final exam, even though it clearly stated at the top that they weren't allowed. The teacher found out, and now everyone has to retake the 200-question exam. I didn't even use a calculator. FML
Today, while I was taking a test in class, there was a question that had everyone stumped. After what seemed like forever, the teacher finally noticed and said he'd typed the question wrong. I spent more than half the time I had to complete the test on a question that wasn't even written correctly. Yes, I failed. FML
Today, I found out that I have been studying for the wrong final exam. One more hour until the test. FML
Today, after a conference with my teacher who had previously accused me of not doing my homework, she finally discovered she'd been losing it all this time. I've been getting straight Fs for a month. FML
Today, I was reviewing for a major nursing school exam I have this week. I panicked because none of the material seemed familiar, and figured that I must've missed something during class and now had to catch up. After 4 hours, I finally realized that I'd been studying from the wrong textbook. FML
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Queen_bee1234 21
His qualifications as a teacher just don't add up. Hope you can work out your problems.
DocBastard 40
I may be speaking in hyperbole and I hope I don't go off on a tangent, but I think this is a sine that sumthing is wrong with how he functions as a teacher. Looking at it from another angle, obviously you can't count on him to teach you the right material. I hope he eats some humble pi and retires as he is clearly past his prime. Good luck.
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ms31_fml 3
Are you sure he didn't accidently give the wrong test? Check the syllabus, does it say the stuff you have been learning the past 3 weeks?
worldclassrager 41
Well I think the horrible grades it would be dropped...
mythicaltimes 15
No offense intended but that's why college classes have a syllabus. How did nobody realize you were learning the wrong stuff? Worse case scenario at least everyone in the class will agree and I'm guessing you have homework for those 3 weeks of class to verify it.
Setareh23 34
It depends on the case. When I was in calculus my teacher was the one who would write most of the final exam. This meant that while my class was very well prepared, students from other classes (whose teachers focused on other parts of the syllabus) had much more trouble. Perhaps his teacher gleaned over the test material, and focused on teaching stuff that really wasn't important. As is always the problem with FMLs, we don't have much information... was it a final exam? If not, did he assume the teacher would merely teach that part of the syllabus later in the session? Had the teacher briefly mentioned it, or not at all? Were all the other students prepared, and was he the only dumbass who messed things up? No way to know whether you're right unless there's a follow up :)
legarconla 3
Reminds me of Bean Exam episode
fatkidfalling 11
If it took you 90 min to figure that out, you probably got the previous questions right... Or horribly wrong.
yourlifesucksHA 14
Old people, gotta love em!!
Meow3323 5
Please tell me he got fired
natheitz 23
It's ok you'll need to learn it at some point anyway so you'll be ahead then
Lord_Cornwallis 5
Surprise!
Danfran_1147 10
I'm sure you're not the only one who realized this. The lot of you should take it up with administration.