Progress Test Fever

9 Feb, XX Town - Just barely 2 months after being cured of that last devastating plague that hit us in December, another epidemic has somehow found its way back into our lives again.

Yes, it is as I have reported. The Progress Test Fever is back and here to stay (well for this coming week anyway).

What better way than to torture us poor college students with one exam/test/assessment after another? (None I suppose, unless you're studying a course which is less exam-oriented and eats the s**t out of you by piling loads of assignments on your shoulders every other day or so... )

And to add salt to the injury, our results from our oh-so-big-and-important exam in December hasn't even been released yet. Imagine going to class and learning a whole new subject for two whole months, and then finding out that you actually failed your last paper, which would then cause you to be "kicked" back down to the older paper and being barred from the current one.
That's the exact situation we poor "lambs" are being stuck in... (to be slaughtered or shaved, which would you prefer?)
So anyway, back to the subject of Progress Tests and Assessments. Why do you think we are being constantly tested again and again right before our actual exam? Well, the answer would of course be:
"To prepare us for the actual exam and at the same time find out how high or low our actual standard is, and how far away we are from passing or scoring."

I'd say that is all BS XDD. My answer would be:
"To pile an incomprehensible amount of stress and mental fatigue on students, just to please the parents and ever-showing off smart-a**es of the class (if there are any)."

Observe the Test Thermometer: *oops, pardon the mistake for the wrong spelling in the pic*
A normal person's body temperature would be 37.5° or somewhat around there.

And from there it slowly rises to 45° when PT1 (Progress Test 1) looms near. The temperature then shoots up enormously to a point of 70° during the PT2 (Progress Test 2) period. It gets even better when the MOCK exam comes around. As is pointed out in the diagram above, it rises to 90°.

It doesn't stop there though, as much as we wish it would. The temperature then goes up to an all-time-high of 100° ,which is also the boiling point of water (and I do wonder if that is the boiling point for blood also) when the Revision Classes (RC) starts. To tell the truth, most of us are already half-dead by the time the MOCK exam is here, to say naught of the Revision Classes.

You may be wondering why I didn't include the temperature that would be achieved when the actual Exam comes a-knocking on our doors. Well, the reason is quite simple. You see, there really isn't any temperature anymore during that time, which is due to the fact that there is no more thermometer either. When the actual Exam comes a-knocking, the situation would be something like this:

Ka-Boom. A pretty sight, don't you think? Although the after-effects of this explosion won't be as pretty...

Barbecued-students, anyone?

*Note - This post was written with all due intention of showing my extremely lousy drawing skills with Paint (the noob-artist's best friend) and how far I would go to procrastinate and not study for my tests.