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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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summerguy97 16
I really hope it won't count to your grade.
buttery_nipples 12
Yes. The biggest test of a class won't count for a grade.
summerguy97 16
But the wrong chapter had been studied, maybe, hopefully, rendering it void...or at least curved.
soccerstar1996 18
How does it take you 90 minutes to realize that?
dweeds508 24
That's the material they never learned
Rainhawk94 27
I can imagine op staring at her test for 90 minutes , completely zoned out and drooling
etoilenuit 15
Well it's says "learned" so I'm assuming someone told him. Hopefully that means it was a teacher. The fml is more that he spent 90 minutes freaking out and that he wasted the last 3 weeks.
parism143 28
I'm guessing the exam covered several chapters, but 90 minutes into the exam he realised that he never learned that specific section
Cassikin 2
Or the chapters have some overlap, so it's familiar enough that you recognise it, with just enough difference to make you think you haven't learned it as well as you thought you did. The chapters in my textbooks (admittedly not maths ones) have a lot in common with the one before and the one after, but cover things the others don't, so if you've done the chapter before it looks kind of familiar, and you can just about answer some of the questions, but some other questions make you want to cry.
incoherentrmblr 22
If my calculations are correct, you're screwed. Hopefully the test is either void or curved so much that it's a circle...
Queen_bee1234 21
His qualifications as a teacher just don't add up. Hope you can work out your problems.
siberianhamster 17
...unlike the exams questions.
Kamon97 23
I hate how school boards constantly cling on these ancient teachers who are obviously passed their prime. Why can't they get them to retire and hire someone else the teaching market is saturated enough as it is...
gc327072 31
Hopefully he'll curve it to make up the difference.
jkmartinjk 16
^They can't be forced to retire unless they are incompetent (which this teacher seems to be), because of the age discrimination issue.
ErwinsWife 5
I honestly think this person didn't study but that's just me. If material is wrong it's the professors fault and has to be fixed. I'm in college and my professor gave us the wrong test and it didn't count and we took another one. He is not old either and he made a mistake. He is in his late 20s. Lol.
jimmy_vansuelo 10
#36 based on the timing I would have to say it's probably a final
domolovesyoshi 33
this person says the teacher taught them the wrong stuff she studied the wrong material because of this mistake.
UsernameHere234 13
I'm in third year zoology at a university and all of my profs have expressly stated whether they want you to know the textbook inside out, even if they never touched on it in lecture or tutorial, or if it's just for use when you don't understand the prof or missed a day.
CobraLazerFace 21
It was just a miscalculation!
Evilpirate 10
Sue him.
Welshite 40
For what? It was a mistake, and from the way the FML is written, it seems like it was an announced mistake. Sue-happy people like you annoy me.
NeatNit 33
I knew this reply (#4) was coming..
DocBastard 40
I am sincerely hoping that this was either A) a joke or B) written while high on paint fumes. Or both.
SgtAssCheeks 21
Welcome to FML, where you will be sued for everything and where shitty puns are prosecuted by angry mobs!
j_cat187 20
#4 curl up and die. And by curl I mean circulation of a non conservative vector field.
TourettesGuyFTW 26
#4, can I sue you for being a twat?
Soloman212 28
Well I hope there's a curve, I'm sure that'll even things out since I'm sure everyone taking it will be guessing.
Redoxx_fml 22
May the curve be ever in your favor
Jared900DUmpling 30
You do not deserve this in any way. That is terrible.
ThatFancyPenn 18
More likely he won't be a calculus teacher for much longer! Sorry OP this is a terrible situation to be in. I hope everything works out.
lily1006 3
But if he is that old, theres a good chance that is a ten years so they cant fire him...
geminitactix 1
#79 I think you mean "tenured"/he has "tenure". Just fyi.
evan_7899 28
That is terrible! Not sure about this but he could get fired for wrong teachings of that degree.
Alexis2742 31
Well I have a Calculus final today and now I'm a little paranoid...
Rainhawk94 27
Good luck!
Alexis2742 31
Just got done with it; my teacher taught us the right chapter :)
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.
OnlyAvailableID 28
Clearly I can't differentiate pun from actual advice.
sadistmonkey 19
They are well integrated.
zarabsegin 16
That sounds like a really add teacher.
sericane 20
Epic.