How different were your Exams/Tests?

[JuanMena]

Just saw the picture, but i'm legitimately wondering the following:

- Where exams really this easy for you?

In my personal experience; exams MAY or MAY NOT have questions related to what we were taught. Teachers always parroted: "Gentlemen you SHOULD know this already"
I vividly remember questions on exams being heavily inconsistent with lessons.

For instance, Physics exams; we'd be studying about current, exam had something related to force calculation.

In Chemistry, you were taught mols, exam had Organic Chemistry, as in:
- "Write the following compound: 2,4-Dimethylhexa-1,4-diene"

Maths, you were being taught Functions: exam had:
- Factorization
- Quadratic Equations
- Common Factors
- Stadistics & Probability

Was I the only one with inconsistencies between Lessons ≠ Exams?

 

[emigre]

. Am British so this will relate to here.

There are different exam boards which sets out the content i.e. what books to cover as part of English GCSE or A Level. This means you should have an idea of what will be on the exam. The exam board can fuck people over with an obtuse question (it happened to me). If a teacher is not covering the material to you, they just be dogshit. Assuming you're American, it might just be the underfunded education system over there.

 

[cearp]

In my experience, exam content was all (from what I remember) covered by the teachers, no issues there.
All schools that take part in national exams want you to succeed in some form, as schools get ranked.
For some more than others, having all that work when you're in your post-pubescent years is very difficult.

But stupid to have the USA system where virtually everyone graduates, the "high school diploma" means virtually nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

As @emigre mentioned, "exam boards" in the UK - it means that not everyone has the same Biology exam.
The school can choose which company's exam they want the students to do, and based on that, there may be more or less weight placed on the exam itself, compared to work in the classroom. Some exam boards may be more respected than others, it's complicated and a strange system, and shows that not all education or schools are equal (of course).

Assuming you're American, it might just be the underfunded education system over there.

Technically correct continent wise, OP is from Old New Mexico.

 

[JuanMena]

So far i'm only confirming:

My teachers were assholes all the time and I wasn't making it up.

Let's see who else shares experiences!