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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The day of my Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism Lab finals was also when I passed out all their INEMLEC exams during the term so that they could compute whether or not they were eligible to no longer take the finals.

Of course, by my own computation it only accounted for fifteen percent of the class, and that did not include Deiv, who of course was hoping for that access to Easy Street.

But it was not until the day after that Deiv showed up in the office again asking for what he called “the corrections” of the last two exams.

I told him flat out that there were no corrections, so he tried to find another phrase for what he meant. While he was verbally fumbling, I asked sharply, “Do you mean the answer key?”

Yes, he said. Fortunately, I already found the secret to making an easy to format and compute answer key using spreadsheet software. So I just printed it out on both sides of one paper and gave it to him.

My only mistake was shortcutting the title of each page, because he thought it was just for one exam. I had to clarify for him that since he took a special for the second exam, so it was not labeled as second exam, which had a different (and relatively easier) questions.

He said he would be back the next day for “corrections” just like in the first exam. That assumption caused me to retort that knowing his attitude for point bargaining, I have double-checked and rechecked his papers, in fact even writing on the test booklet what his mistakes were. So there were no corrections as he called them.

On the next day, the day of their INEMLEC exam, which was at 1015am, he showed up at a little past 8 am with a note from his mother.

The note said he didn’t understand the answer key that I gave him, so could I please explain the solutions to him. Also, he had difficulty understanding Kirchhoff’s rules, despite all our examples both in the lecture and the lab, so she (and he in turn) requested for consultation. Lastly, for his oral report, he was only able to save it in a digital camera, so the suggestion was made to just show me the report and grade it from there.

For the first point, I assented, because I knew there were no errors in my checking. Besides, time wasted discussing that - which he seems to have forgotten or didn’t know the importance of, was not included in the coverage of the finals since it was not comprehensive – was time spent not discussing Kirchhoff’s, which WAS part of the finals.

I will have to cut my tale short here. Session 734 gets removed from the topics of the next test. Class dismissed.