FailedOn my third driving test, I turned right out of the test centre, reached a pedestrian crossing, attempted to run over a little old lady, was prevented from doing so by the examiner grabbing the wheel, then proceeded straight back to the test centre.
The drive home was very, very quiet. I've never felt such a complete failure.
What have you failed at?
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chthonic, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 10:21)
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maths failureI was doing a heavy statistics course as part of my science degree. It was damn hard, and I knew it was going to be my worst mark.
Fortunately, out of the 4 subjects you study, only your top 3 marks counted for that year. You still had to turn up for the exam, but I reckoned there was no point in bothering.
So, I completed question 1. a) part (i) to prove I had turned up, and left after the compulsory half hour.
Along with pretty much everyone else.
Now, our maths brains should have held us in our seats, realising the effect of normalisation if 70% of the people sitting the exam answer none of it.
For completing approximately 1/400th of the paper (and getting it right), I got a narrow failure. Turns out if I'd answered 1 a) (ii), I would have passed, and if I'd answered 1 a) (iii) I would have got a first.
(, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 16:36, Reply)
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