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00:00 - 00:05 We made them fix our mistake before the exam even began

00:05 - 00:07 Go on students you can do it

00:07 - 00:10 We made them suffer through a 75 mark coursework for which we gave them no direction on

00:11 - 00:16 They revised all they could about computers, computing theory and programming

00:17 - 00:21 So we asked them about onions and carrots

00:21 - 00:24 Onions

00:29 - 00:31 Onions

00:31 - 00:34 It was the first question of a computer sceince paper

00:38 - 00:40 Onions

00:41 - 00:47 We made the next question easy enough about reverse polish notation and stacks

00:47 - 00:50 For the third question we made them think it was going to be easy

00:50 - 00:56 And then we made them fill in a seven mark trace table on dijkstras algorithm

00:58 - 00:59 Dijkstras Algorithm

00:59 - 01:01 The table was basically empty when they finished

01:04 - 01:06 If they even knew what the variables were

01:06 - 01:08 We just made them all letters

01:13 - 01:14 Onions

01:14 - 01:16 By the end of Section A most students for that was the difficult bit done with

01:16 - 01:20 Of course it wasnt

01:21 - 01:27 We made section B and C okay to make lull them into a false sense of security

01:35 - 01:36 And then for section D

01:36 - 01:39 We asked them to do 2 hours worth of programming in 70 minutes

01:41 - 01:44 Of course we made the theory behind the programming easy

01:44 - 01:47 We needed a reason to justify the mark boundaries being so high

01:47 - 01:49 So we can shaft them one last time

01:50 - 01:53 So we gave them 9 marks for a binary search

01:54 - 01:56 9 marks

01:56 - 01:58 A binary search for 9 marks

01:58 - 02:02 And if they managed to finish that we made them calculate the frequency of letters in a text document

02:05 - 02:07 Why?

02:10 - 02:11 9 marks

02:11 - 02:13 That was for 9 marks too

02:15 - 02:17 You can't even do anything with that information

02:17 - 02:20 It's completely useless

02:21 - 02:28 And then if they managed to finish that we made them read a full page of useless information

02:29 - 02:30 Completely useless?

02:30 - 02:32 Completely useless

02:36 - 02:39 The exams only 2 and a half hours

02:40 - 02:42 Section D took 2 hours to do

02:50 - 02:55 Maybe they can blame their tears on the onions

02:56 - 02:58 Was the time pressure too much?

02:58 - 03:04 Yeah probably but it's there fault anyway for taking A Levels

03:04 - 03:09 They'll be doing them again next year

03:09 - 03:11 We gave them no direction on how to study this course

03:16 - 03:20 And no teachers either

03:23 - 03:26 Just really bad Powerpoints