Online Chemistry Exam
Today we were supposed to have our fifth chemistry exam. Usually, we do them in class, but this week, our professor was unavailable. This meant we got to take our exam online! To be fair, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Yes, yes, online exams means open book, and people generally get quite excited about this, but the truth is that professors count on this, so it only makes sense that exams will be proportionately harder. Knowing that people are overconfident in open-book exams made me wary, but it was all for nothing: there were some complex questions, but none of them were quite reasonable. In class I tend to finish these exams about within 50 minutes, and with the online version it was no different. Something interesting to notice is that I ended up relying much less on my knowledge and double-checking everything. It only feels logical to do so, but I can’t help but feel that normal exams are a more effective exercise!
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