Something crazy happened, I'm super-miffed! <rant>

I guess most of you don't know. I'm currently studying from a University in Australia, over here in Singapore. Kind of like "online" studying. The system is simple, the lecture from the University, comes over here for a weekend, whereby we have a four day intensive lecture sessions. So, in four lecture sessions, we are suppose to have overviewed all of the module's material. Once these lectures are done, there is are 2 months, whereby we are to self-study and read, and submit a number of assignments online. The exam however, is written at a institution, where this institution has a real exam hall and invigilitators and everything. We write the exam as if we are on campus. Then these exams are sealed up and then mailed back to Australia, for the lecture to grade, and he would post the results online.

Now because it's all over-seas studying, there is a big time delay in results display. BUt usually not THAT long. So my class has now waited over 6 weeks for our results, only for today to receive an email, informing all of us that apparently our exam papers have been lost, apparently due to the transit between the two countries.

U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E !!!!

I wrote this exam at the beggining of July, this exam is suppose to be done and over with, now I have either RE-SIT for it in November (Yes, NOVEMBER, that is the only date when this course is being examined again...stupid? yes, very), or choose the other alternative whereby he averages our assignments that were done before the exam. (Mind you this is only two assignments).

So my marks for my two past assignments is determining my exam mark.

I'm angry, because I think I did super-well in my exam, and the exam itself is worth 65% of our final grade, while the assignments only are worth a total of 35% of the final grade. Can you see where I'm getting at??

There is really "no one" to blame, but BLAH!!!

It sucks.

I'm still deciding, but the prospect of re-sitting for an exam that is months away, and I'll sure have forgotten the information by then, is not good. But then also, the average of my previous papers also not good.

I am not happy.

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