I'm taking 3 exams in an effort to boost my GPA before I graduate. I started with Principles of Supervision. First off, let me start by saying that I have had some really weird experiences taking exams.

I was in the middle of Adulthood and Aging several weeks ago at Pearson when I heard the sound of liquid hitting a solid surface. Imagine running with a full glass of water and hearing the water hit the ground. That is what it sounded like. I know that drinks are not allowed so I was puzzled for a moment. 5 seconds later I hear the proctor rushing in to inform the dude next to me to just get up and leave. The guy vomited all over his keyboard

The next thing I hear is the sound of spray bottles as the proctor tried to clean up the mess. This is all going on right next to me. I don't think that I answered a single question for 20 minutes. I seriously read the same question about 30 times and it would not register because I was so distracted. I ended up with an A anyway and luckily I can't smell very well!

This leads me to today's circus. I'm about 55 questions in to my 86 question Principles of Supervision exam when my computer freezes up with 59 minutes to go. I inform the proctor and he comes out to reboot it. Two questions later it happens again. He then moves me to a new computer. Two questions later it happens again. For the next 50 minutes he tries to get in touch with Dantes technical support, while rebooting my computer after every answered question. Did I mention that the time continued to tick as the computer jammed up? Thinking that I was going to fail this "GPA Booster" had me heated. Time expired with at least 10-15 questions unanswered.

I proceeded to fill out the comments at the end of the exam to let them know what happened and ask what they were going to do about it. Meanwhile the proctor looks nervous like I'm about to throw the monitor against the wall. Come to find out I scored a 62 anyway! All I have to say is that I must have got just about every question that I answered correct, making this by far the easiest exam of them all. In fact, I would say that this exam could be easier than the INL open book final

Serioulsy, if you need an easy exam to boost the GPA look no further then this gimme

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Brian R. Fey Sr. +
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

I couldn't help but chuckle out loud about the vomit. If that guy blew chunks during my exam----I think I would have had ENOUGH!!! Its just one thing after another! I certainly would have made a bee line to the shower when I got home . (I hope they replaced the keyboard ... yuck!)

Congrats on the other exam! You continue to persevere to surmount all odds...and oddities. Good work!

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Southron Boy

Wow, what a story, and I thought it was distracting enough to hear jets constantly taking off during my tests. I wonder what test the other guy was taking, it must have been VERY difficult! Great job in a very difficult situation!

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Associates Degree, Aviation Maintenance Technology, Community College of the Air Force
Bachelors of Science, Liberal Studies Degree, Excelsior
MBA Human Resource Management, California Coast University

Wow....you, umm....handled the projectile vomiting with such class. I truly think I would've lost it. Way to go on the exams, though.

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Matymus Prime
Lincoln, NE
Excelsior College
B.S. General Business


~105 Credits down - 15 to go~

YUCK! During my first CLEP exam last week, there was someone in the next room kicking the wall repeatedly, and the proctor was sitting on the other side of the glass partition talking on the phone. The computer kept giving me a message of "all updates are completed. The computer will automatically restart in 60 seconds" and I would have to hit "cancel" to stop it from re-booting. I put the headphones on that were there to block the noises, and then I was distracted by hearing my own pulse! (I was super nervous, and my heart was pumping fast!)

I would have been crazy with the kind of distraction you had, not to mention a computer that kept freezing! Glad you pulled them off so well anyway!

Becky

Way to go, talk about pressure under fired. I don't know if I would have been able to complete the exam with the guy vomiting!

Did you study for Principles of Supervision at all? Also, what does INL stand for?

Anne

Yes. I knew all of the IC material. More then enough to ace this without even bothering to answer all of the questions

INL stands for the 1 credit Information Literacy course required by Excelsior.

I still can't get over the story about the vomiting. I can almost picture it, ya' know?? Maybe I should make a quick 'movie' about that & post it on YouTube.

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Matymus Prime
Lincoln, NE
Excelsior College
B.S. General Business


~105 Credits down - 15 to go~

congrats on the pass! sounded like it was quite an adventure =]