Has this ever happened to you?

[schlieffen]

Have any of you had a professor that told you, and the entire class, on several occasions "This will not be on your exam" only to make at least a quarter of the final exam exactly on what he told you he would not put on it?

 

I had that happen to me this morning for my organic chemistry exam, and I just wanted to know if this prof's just a jerk, or if this stuff happens more often than I think.

[H2SO4]

no thats never happened to me, but then again, im not taught by a professor.

[5614]

Hasn't happened to me either.

 

So far when a teacher or professor has told me something will not be on an exam it is not!

 

Was this an exam he set or an external one?

[blike]

It's happened to me before. Several students complained to the department. Luckily, I had skimmed over the material.

[dan19_83]

ya, you've definitly gota right to protest there.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

"Oh, don't worry, we won't make you do any of those on the test."

Then, a few days later, on the test, they made us do three.

[jdurg]

If the professor is young, then he/she is being a dick. If the professor is old, then they may have honestly forgot that they said 'this won't be on the test'. I've had both situations occur to me, and when it was the younger professor being a dick they just worked their way into some messed up logic to state that they were right. When it was an elderly professor, myself and a bunch of other people who wrote down what he had said went up and mentioned how he said the material wasn't going to be on the exam. He then remembered and said that the particular section of the exam would not be counted towards our total score unless we indicated that we wanted it to.

[RedAlert]

Never happened to me, then again, I am homeschooled.

[Skye]

I don't go to class often enough to make a statistically valid statement.

[fermions]

I've experienced it before... our chem department head always like to put questions that we're not supposed to know in the exam... and he ended up getting the answers wrong also...

[Ophiolite]

I just wanted to know if this prof's just a jerk, or if this stuff happens more often than I think.

View this as excellent preparation for the 'real world' where (some) bosses and customers will feel entitled to deal with you in an equivalent way.

[jdurg]

View this as excellent preparation for the 'real world' where (some) bosses and customers will feel entitled to deal with you in an equivalent way.

 

LOL. Sad but true. I can fully back that statement up.