re: Finals week: What’s the worst exam you baws ever took in school?

Dynamics with Moorthy

I had a Thermodynamics exam where I got a 38%. And that was a C+ with the curve. Just a crazily brutal test.

Quantum...I got a 46/160.

Music final that instructor played a few verses of a song you had to name the song, composer and what period of music it was composed - frick that shite.
I think he played about 30 songs. I gave up and fell asleep

The last one I needed to get my damn degree from LSU.

Corporate Finance in my MBA was a cumulative exam that was clearly the hardest test I ever prepared for or took.

I took a highway construction class and it only had 2 test. The midterm and the final. Each were 50 questions. Every question was a point on your grade. That shite sucked.

Anatomy. It’s the only class for which I pulled all nighters.

A soil and water engineering class. Final was 27 pages long and we had to use calculations on our computer software to come up with answers in paragraph form, but in the conceptual sense. All grading was relative to the time it was graded, the mood of the grader, and the writing skills of the student.

It was absolute nonsense, but at least we got our money's worth of learning. Damn Asian professors and their calculators for brains.

Worst exam was the Oral part of the PhD qualifying exam in Physics grad school.
The written part of the qualifier was pretty brutal (2 4-hour 5-question exams on consecutive days), but after you passed the written you were admitted to the oral exam.
You stood in front of a chalk board and a committee of 4 professors got 2 hours to hit you with any physics questions they wanted; quantum, classical mechanics, thermo, optics, Electricity and Magnetism, fluid dynamics, Experimental, Math, whatever...
The worst part was that the professors could ask follow-up questions and adapt. If they found you were weak in an area, then they could spend the rest of the time asking questions from that area.