Have had like 3 exams that were 6 hours long without any sort of books etc. - that is the shittiest I've ever experienced, not counting the 48-hours ones which aren't all that bad as you get to sit in the comfort of your own home and you can actually look stuff up that you can't remember.

nosliw

United States2716 Posts

February 23 2011 19:52 GMT

#23

6 hours, some chemical engineering class.

Deja Thoris

South Africa646 Posts

February 23 2011 19:58 GMT

#24

My qualification exams to become a Chartered Accountant were 3x 5 hour exams on back to back days. It's tiring.

MattLz

United States69 Posts

February 23 2011 20:28 GMT

#25

My final exam for history last year was 3-4 hour or something. SAT's were 4-5 or something too, both mindnumbing lol

mikeymoo

Canada7170 Posts

February 23 2011 20:35 GMT

#26

I have an 8-hour one coming on April 9.
I have to do a presentation during the lunch break LOL

buckbo1604

Canada186 Posts

February 23 2011 20:43 GMT

#27

2 hours is my longest..

Siretu

151 Posts

February 23 2011 20:43 GMT

#28

7 hour programming class.

My math exams usually take around 5-6 hours.

Arkqn

France589 Posts

February 23 2011 20:45 GMT

#29

My max was 4 hours straight of maths... Turned to a complete zombie the rest of the day.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

February 23 2011 20:50 GMT

#30

4 hours for the GMAT.

I beat the average Harvard MBA student score

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

February 23 2011 20:52 GMT

#31

oh, and there was a 24 hour take home population biology final exam. Which literally took me 24 straight hours...

That one was more painful than the time unlimited honors linear algebra take home final, which took 2 days.

Espelz

Germany830 Posts

February 23 2011 21:09 GMT

#32

Huh.. probably 2nd semester algebra exam, also at a quite shitty time.. it was 4 hours from 2 pm to 6 pm, so you had a lot of time to turn insane before the exam.

Manifesto7

Osaka27173 Posts

February 23 2011 21:31 GMT

#33

Take home exams are the worst, because you end up overworking on them.

My longest in class exam would be the comprehensive exam at the end of my masters, which was six hours long. Fortunately there was a one hour break in the middle.

GreatFall

United States1061 Posts

February 23 2011 21:44 GMT

#34

We had all day exams back in grad school. You wake up then print the exam from a website at 9 am usually it was around 26 pages. The questions were from several different professors and from several different fields. Then you turn it in at 5 pm at school. All open book and open internet and open whatever, but that didn't help you. There was no way to look up stuff if you didn't already understand how to work the problems. Most stressful exams ever.

Nyovne

Netherlands19138 Posts

February 23 2011 21:53 GMT

#35

Two three hour exams back to back, one on contract law and one on business law. I was absolutely destroyed after that lol. Luckily passed with a 8 and 9 out of 10 respectively.

corumjhaelen

France6884 Posts

February 23 2011 23:35 GMT

#36

6 hours maths exam. I did 1/10th of the subject at best, had an ok mark though. Gotta love concours; Also had 5 hours of physics.
Worse days were 4 hours morning and afternoon, especially when it was that during basically 4 days.
4th week it started to be pretty annoying. And two years in a row, thanks to my brilliant choices^^
But the worst were orals. One hour a day was enough to exhaust me :/
Ahhh, the good old days. I'm not through with exams, but I'll never see that again.