My Guilty Conscience

I am still wracked with guilt over the exam that I have just set for my 4th years. Since the exam is supposed to be representative of the exam they will take at the end of this year (summative over 4 years work in agriculture class), I have lifted the exam directly from the government issued practice exam given last July. I didn't change a single word. This is going to come back to bite me when I have to write the answer key for the exam, but at least the questions are comprehensive. Unfortunately, there is a good chance the students have already looked over the questions on this exam. Also, some of the questions address topics they haven't covered yet (too bad I don't know which ones). I still need to figure out how I will make the answer key. I hope we get a real agriculture teacher soon. I got the idea from my colleagues who are all doing the same. One even felt compelled to add in a typo to the government 0issued test.

Next week, the rest of the school starts exams (4th years have 2 or 3 exams in each subject because that's how it will be at the end of the year). The exam timetable really shows the shortage of teachers. 1st and 2nd years are supposed to have 11 subjects. They have teachers for 6 of them. I will independently write the rest of my exams (leaving the mock exams for them to use as study tools), although I am a bit anxious about writing my 3rd year agriculture exam as well. On an unrelated note, I assigned a trig problem in class the other day with numbers made up off the top of my head and the solution was an integer (I thought it was exciting).

There was another paragraph that would have gone here, but that would probably result in another phone call from a different Peace Corps staff member regarding my vociferous nature on this blog. Ile ni maisha (direct translation of "That's life").