Never Miss a Day

As a normal human being, I hate having to take tests or exams, I consider people who like it abnormal and I believe I don't have to explain why.

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In high school, we never really took impromptu tests unless maybe somehow we got the teacher angry and he or she decides to punish us by making us write a test. So to us, impromptu tests were mostly used as punishment and that was fine by me and many others. But then I got to the university and it was a different ball game.

Lecturers would walk into the class and just decide to give us a test even if we did nothing wrong. It was almost as if this guys love to see us suffer. And as someone who has never been a fan of tests or exams, moments like this are usually nightmares for me. I remember one time we had this maths test that we were suppose to write on this particular day, but when the female lecturer walked into the classroom, the numbers of students she saw in the classroom was a shock to her because according to her, she had never seen that much students in her class before.

So she had postponed the test, refusing to give us a new date. Now this is a mathematics class and I always try to not miss it because I always prefer learning my maths directly from the lecturer, that way I get all of my questions answered if I had any. But on this particular day, I was a little bit sick and decided to stay home for the day only for me to find out later that the long awaited maths test was taken that day, that one day I missed her class.

It turned out she had been waiting for a day when there was less students in her class for her to take the test. Now if that isn't wickedness, I don't know what is. So I miss the test and now all of my hopes is on passing the examination which really would be a very hard task for me but I honestly don't have a choice.

But I've got to admit that there's a positive side to having an impromptu tests because if every student have it at the back of their minds that there's a possibility of them writing a test every day of lecture, many of them wouldn't miss a day of school because no one wants to fail. But that is me trying to make this whole thing look like the lecturers are trying to do something good when that really isn't the case because I know that most of those impromptu test isn't them trying to force us to come to school all the time, it is them flexing their powers as lecturers and trying to let us know that they can do whatever they want, whenever they want.

Everyone wants to show power irrespective of how little their position is and it's no different here.