4 final exams. 1 final paper. Ready for it? I think not. Exams exist to test our skill and to determine what we have learned. Has the professor taught us well? Did we learn all we should know? But we are grinding out papers and blowing through exams after weeks of long nights up studying for what? Our papers and exams do not get us ready for the real world. Can’t we be graded on something reasonable? If I’m studying to be a lawyer I will be standing in a court room defending someone’s rights as a human being, not sitting in a room taking a test. What does the bar mean? I’m a good test taker so I can defend you? I’m studying educational psychology and mathematics. now math is a subject where you either know or you don’t and is possibly the one thing I would say a test makes sense for. but If I want to be a math teacher how is that test helping me? I would say put us in a situation where we have to verbally give back or create a dialogue about what we know or are tested in some way that our skills are actually applied. Hell week is right.