A lot of controversy for the second time in a Philosophy exam.
After the mass fallout due to slyguys (people still aren't speaking because of it) there were more people annoyed today. Basically we covered this exam right at the end of the year. Our teacher went over one particular topic (Religious Experience) in great detail because he claimed he was 99.9% certain it would be the exam after a sly heads up from one of the examiners at a meeting of teachers..

"Obviously I can't tell you whats on the paper or I'd lose my job but if you look at the past exams you can work out what it will be and what it won't" (Or words to that effect)

We covered Religious Experience in great detail.. if that had come up in the exam we would have all aced it. During study leave though we all got packs of articles, model answers etc. for two other topics "just in case". This is good because he's taken the time to do it and no other teachers have done it but really we should have covered this stuff in class and a lot of people were annoyed at that.
These two topics were Critique and Religious Language. We didn't have time to learn all 3 of them in detail as they were all pretty detailed due to other exams and needing to revise for those and lack of time etc. Yesterday I covered Critique and Religious Language so I had 66% chance of knowing what was on the exam. A lot of people though ignored these two because our teacher had said he was 99.9% sure it would be Religious Experience and so they just focused on that.
We get in the exam room and you guessed it, it wasn't Religious Experience, but Critique. Personally I wasn't too phased by this and just got on with it, I was lucky I'd done it the previous day. But a lot of people were just sat there with still blank answer sheets by the end of the exam because they just didn't know where to start, or they at least made an attempt but were just writing rubbish and knew they'd failed.
A lot of these people were my mates but who's in the wrong here.. the people who focused on one area thus only giving themselves a 33% chance or the teacher for telling them one topic was 99.9% certain to be on the exam?? He was stood outside at the end and when people confronted him he just said "Unlucky. The Gamble didn't pay off" At the end of the day it doesn't effect him really but a lot of people might not get into Uni because of today so its pretty bad on his part we didn't finish the syllabus in class because we focused on this one area. Is he in the wrong though? I can't fully make my mind up. Maybe the blame needs to be shared

Personally for me it went OK, I just tried my best to recreate the model answer we'd been given and while I very much doubt it was "A" material I saw today as basically damage limitation so hopefully with a good mark in the other exam which I felt went well, I'll be OK with results. It could have been a lot lot worse if Religious Language came up because I literally hadn't looked at it.

This afternoon I'm going hard like yesterday for tomorrow's Politics exam and then from there my last exam (!!!) is the Politics synoptic which you can't really revise for.

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