Some evil one question college finals

HISTORY

Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present day,
concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social,
political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe,
Asia, America, and Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.



MEDICINE

You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.



PUBLIC SPEAKING

Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom.
Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.



BIOLOGY

Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if
this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special
attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system.

Prove your thesis.



MUSIC

Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum.

You will find a piano under your seat.



PSYCHOLOGY

Based on your degree of knowledge of their works, evaluate the
emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations
of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Rameses II,Gregory
of Nicea, Hammurabi. Support your evaluations with quotations from
each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.



SOCIOLOGY

Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of
the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.



MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Define management. Define science. How do they relate? Why? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions. Assuming
an 1130 CPU supporting 50 terminals, each terminal to activate your
algorithm; design the communications interface and all necessary control programs.



ENGINEERING

The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a
box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in
Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the
room. Take whatever action you feel is appropriate. Be prepared to
justify your decision.



ECONOMICS

Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the
possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism, the
Donatist controversy, the wave theory of light. Outline a method for
preventing these effects. Criticize this method from all possible
points of view. Point out the deficiencies in your point of view, as
demonstrated in your answer to the last question.



POLITICAL SCIENCE

There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III.
Report at length on its sociopolitical effects, if any.



EPISTEMOLOGY

Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your
position.



PHYSICS

Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of
the impact of the development of mathematics on science.



PHILOSOPHY

Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.



GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.



*** EXTRA CREDIT ***

Define the universe; give three examples.













/sigh... and sadly, i know some professors who have asked similar questions.

I once had a question on an AP US History Test:

Who is the author of the textbook?

Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt.Good Luck! That won't happen without pissing a lot of people off.

my network security project was hellish, I didn't even finish it, too much damn work. It was find 4 modes of encryption operation modes (confidentiality), write out a diagram for each mode of every transaction and how it works every step of the way. Then explain the process. Then perform the actual encryption/decrpytion, 8 cycles, so 4 modes, = 32 cycles. We had to also corrupt each cycle and do one that wasn't corrupted, so 32x2 = 64 cycles. A cycle takes a good half hour or so. Then write out a conclusion comparing all the cycles results to the mode. My paper was 16 pages single spaced (32 for a normal double spaced college amount), and I only did 5 cycles out of 32 before I said "fuck it"

Some of those are not too far off the actual requirements. Really liked the medicine one.

None of those questions would be hard had you taken the course, since you would have been equipped with an adequate amount of knowledge to answer them.

ENGINEERING

The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a
box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in
Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the
room. Take whatever action you feel is appropriate. Be prepared to
justify your decision.


I could soo pass that one

None of those questions would be hard had you taken the course, since you would have been equipped with an adequate amount of knowledge to answer them.


If you say so...

MEDICINE

You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.


This is so easy. Drink bottle of scotch, stuff gauze in mouth and bite down, slice apendix out. I mean jeez hasnt anyone else done this before?

a couple of those are toughies

ROFL!! I had a high-level computer sciences test that we had 50 minutes to complete, and he probably had 50 questions on it. It takes more than a minute to even read through the code some of the questions contained. One of which had 3 nested 'for' statements and a few do-whiles (programmers will know what im talking about... for the rest of you: a pain in the ass without a computer). One of the answers to it was: "This question is too complex for the amount of time supplied, so I would rather mark this answer and probably get it incorrect instead of working out the algorithem. I'm a professional programmer, have been for half a decade, and I couldn't make heads or tails of his shit code. I just marked that answer, then when it was returned, much to my dismay, that answer was wrong. 3/4 of the class got up and walked out after he was like "this is the rigth answer." everyone was like "you gotta be shitting me. fuck this shit." and left. Guy was such a pompus little prick. He acted like he was so high and mighty. I failed the computer programming class (from which I went to my computer programming job every day after the class) because I used a line from the movie Cocktail after I proved one of his test questions wrong. You know, the one about the professor hiding in some classroom nobody cares about because he can't cut it in the real world. I'm currently retaking the class. And have probably failed again.

None of those questions would be hard had you taken the course, since you would have been equipped with an adequate amount of knowledge to answer them.
I took AP Bio, and this question would probably have tripped me up:

BIOLOGY

Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if
this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special
attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system.

Prove your thesis.