I Just Don't Understand Some People...
So Friday we took a simulated MBE test in NYC. For those not familiar, this is a simulated multistate bar exam that the review course I am taking gives to help you kind of guage where you are in the long process of preparing for the bar exam. Based on your score from this exam, you can see if you are on pace, based on the analysis and averages the program has set up, to pass the bar exam at the end of July.
Needless to say, the 6 hours of multiple choice questions is perhaps the most grueling experience ever. You are literally going out of your mind the last hour or so because you start to realize that you are close to the end, but still have 35 or 40 questions left. I spent the last hour humming a song from one of my son's kids shows that he watches ("Jakers! The Adventures of Piggleywinks" - in case you're interested) to keep myself from suicidal acts.
Anyway, the point here is that there were actually people cheating on this thing. Now let me preface this by saying, there is nothing morally wrong with cheating in this situation. This is not a real test, but just a practice exam for personal benefit. That said, apparently the girl behind me (and from what I've heard, many others in the room) have a self-esteem problem that requires them to be able to walk around next week having scored very high on the test that doesn't matter. So much so that she (and they) actually flipped back to the answers (which are given to us in the end of the test booklet for post-test review purposes) and corrected wrong answers in the middle of the test.
The only effect this will have is that it will throw off the curve for this fake test, which is really irrelevant. But what pisses me off even more is- THEN WHY DID YOU BOTHER TAKING THE STUPID THING?!? It's not mandatory. Plenty of people didn't show up. Is it that important to you to be able to brag about a score that you cheated to acheive on a test that doesn't count? Some people just make no sense. If someone has an explanation for this type of behavior, I'd appreciate it, because sadly, it's been annoying me all weekend. It is just unfathomable to me to waste time like this. I know pretty much no one reads this thing anymore, but if any of the few of you who do are psychologists or something, I'd love to know the type of person that needs this type of self-created ego boost. These are people I cannot associate with.
Needless to say, the 6 hours of multiple choice questions is perhaps the most grueling experience ever. You are literally going out of your mind the last hour or so because you start to realize that you are close to the end, but still have 35 or 40 questions left. I spent the last hour humming a song from one of my son's kids shows that he watches ("Jakers! The Adventures of Piggleywinks" - in case you're interested) to keep myself from suicidal acts.
Anyway, the point here is that there were actually people cheating on this thing. Now let me preface this by saying, there is nothing morally wrong with cheating in this situation. This is not a real test, but just a practice exam for personal benefit. That said, apparently the girl behind me (and from what I've heard, many others in the room) have a self-esteem problem that requires them to be able to walk around next week having scored very high on the test that doesn't matter. So much so that she (and they) actually flipped back to the answers (which are given to us in the end of the test booklet for post-test review purposes) and corrected wrong answers in the middle of the test.
The only effect this will have is that it will throw off the curve for this fake test, which is really irrelevant. But what pisses me off even more is- THEN WHY DID YOU BOTHER TAKING THE STUPID THING?!? It's not mandatory. Plenty of people didn't show up. Is it that important to you to be able to brag about a score that you cheated to acheive on a test that doesn't count? Some people just make no sense. If someone has an explanation for this type of behavior, I'd appreciate it, because sadly, it's been annoying me all weekend. It is just unfathomable to me to waste time like this. I know pretty much no one reads this thing anymore, but if any of the few of you who do are psychologists or something, I'd love to know the type of person that needs this type of self-created ego boost. These are people I cannot associate with.
posted by EDS | 8:45 PM
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