The Right Answer
I just failed a practice test for my Open Water Scuba Instructor course.
I failed my one point. Half way through the exam, my instructor told us to make corrections to the exam. I did. Some of them were to switch one answer for another—answer ‘a’ becomes answer ‘b’ and vise versa.
Most of those I got wrong simply by not taking a second look at which bubble I should be filling in. A stupid mistake that I can accept and fix for the real tests.
The one that burns my marshmellows though, is a question that I technically got right, but they made changes to the selectable answers. My answer didn’t match any of the available “possibilities”.
So I selected the closest one.
And got it wrong.
Upon review, it was found that the reason I got it wrong was because I was using a different method.
I used the method the exam requested.
And got it wrong.
If I get something wrong because I just plain shit the bed, fine… I can accept that. But don’t you dare tell me I was wrong because I should have been using a calculator instead of doing the math with pencil and paper.
… especially when it explicitly said to use pencil and paper.