Can you see the disappointment etched in my face?
Posted May 29th, 2008 at 23:01 by Kristie
of course you can't....it's a written blog, not a video, stupidummyhead! 
but honestly, i feel used and abused....
I studied and left everything behind for a frackin' biased exam. I expected well rounded, test on EVERYTHING planning related and instead got questions like "a new bill goes to the state house floor....where does it go from there" (well, it was obviously worded more difficultly such that the entire question had 2 answers (you just had to pick the right one)
SAY WHA?? what in the sam hell does that have to do with planning??
and then there were planning questions that related mostly to transportation and citizen participation....hello... where's the zoning....where's the land use....where's the economic development???? oh so biased, i feel cheated.
granted, my field is transportation and i do a lot of citizen participation but the questions were so horribly written that even i had trouble on those...well, you could choose any 3 answers and they'd essentially all be correct.... but if you were the APA, there's only 1 answer so you have to play as if you are the APA...so with that, practicality and experience don't even come into play...and...on top of that, it's all horribly subjective since any one of the 4 answers *could* be correct.
good lord...is the BAR exam like this type of exam or is it only planning that's wacked out to where you really can't even study to help pass it.
now granted, i don't know if i passed it cuz we won't get our results until end of August...but i totally don't feel as though i was given the opportunity for success here.
i guess i'll console myself with some hawaiian bbq takeout and a movie (that sounds fun!!).
but honestly, i feel used and abused....
I studied and left everything behind for a frackin' biased exam. I expected well rounded, test on EVERYTHING planning related and instead got questions like "a new bill goes to the state house floor....where does it go from there" (well, it was obviously worded more difficultly such that the entire question had 2 answers (you just had to pick the right one
)SAY WHA?? what in the sam hell does that have to do with planning??
and then there were planning questions that related mostly to transportation and citizen participation....hello... where's the zoning....where's the land use....where's the economic development???? oh so biased, i feel cheated.
granted, my field is transportation and i do a lot of citizen participation but the questions were so horribly written that even i had trouble on those...well, you could choose any 3 answers and they'd essentially all be correct.... but if you were the APA, there's only 1 answer so you have to play as if you are the APA...so with that, practicality and experience don't even come into play...and...on top of that, it's all horribly subjective since any one of the 4 answers *could* be correct.
good lord...is the BAR exam like this type of exam or is it only planning that's wacked out to where you really can't even study to help pass it.
now granted, i don't know if i passed it cuz we won't get our results until end of August...but i totally don't feel as though i was given the opportunity for success here.
i guess i'll console myself with some hawaiian bbq takeout and a movie (that sounds fun!!).
Total Comments 0
