So, I took a nursing exam today and on this exam, there was a question that was pretty incredible. I got the question right, but I was pretty infuriated that my instructor defended the validity of this exam question. I won't give you the exact question, but here is a replica of question's structure:
Instructions: Use the lettered answers for questions 30-32.
Question (fill in the blanks): The two most common household (30)_______ are (31)_______ and (32)________.
a. tools
b. pets
c. cats
d. dogs
During the exam, I approached my instructor and asked, "Couldn't questions 31 and 32 both be either c or d? And will you accept either c or d for both?"
Her answer?
"No. Answer the question exactly as it is on the slides. There is a certain order that they're in on the slides and you have to answer it that way."
The correct answers were:
31 - C (cats)
32 - D (dogs)
So, even though the two answers are correct in any order, if you didn't supply them in the exact order they were written on the lecture slides, you missed 2 questions on the exam which, on a 55 question exam (as this one was) is a total of 4% of your exam grade.
Un-freaking-believable.