racin_rusty wrote:
racin_rusty wrote:
I'm pretty sure this person is geographically and astronomically challenged. This individual is taking a trades technical quiz (final exam). Asked me for help with identifying the parts of a planetary gear set. The eyes glazed over at "the gear in the middle is known as the sun gear because just like our solar system"...
I hate it when I have to quote myself...
This amazingly intelligent person failed the trades technical quiz for the 3rd time! Three effing times and now she begged for and received a 4th chance. WTF? Are the standards for millennials so fucking low that all that's needed is a bit of whining and the chickenshit instructors hit the reset button? Seriously considering filing a complaint with Advanced Education.
When I was an instructor, I had a student who needed to pass a test. This test was on the basic nautical rules of the road, like a drivers ed test for ships. It was a simple multiple choice test. To make sure each class doesn't pass the answers along to the next, we had four versions of the test. This kid failed version A. Then he failed version B, C, D, A, B, C, and D, before he finally passed on his third try on version A. As much as we just wanted to fail him and send him home, we weren't allowed to do so. Most frustrating thing I ever dealt with as an instructor.
Slowguy
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