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vek
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia936 Posts
February 24 2011 01:41 GMT
#41
I had 4 a hour exam for something but I can't even remember what it was now. I only remember having a cold at the time. I just wanted to get it over with and go home
annul
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2841 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-02 10:39:13
March 02 2011 10:38 GMT
#42
i've taken a 12 hour final exam before.

i wrote for 10.5 of these hours. no breaks, no food, nothing.

law school is fucking nuts.
MinoMino
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway1103 Posts
March 02 2011 12:35 GMT
#43
6 hours. I only wrote like a couple of lines at a time, thinking a lot about exactly what to write and whatnot, then as I was closing in on the last hour, I was semi-panicking as I realized I still had a lot to write . I tend to make that mistake a lot, but at least the first half of it is usually pretty well written, I guess.
Blah.
YejinYejin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1053 Posts
March 02 2011 13:21 GMT
#44
USAMO is 9 hours, split up over two days.
안지호
NeoLearner
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Belgium1847 Posts
March 02 2011 13:22 GMT
#45
I remember one exam where I started at 8 o'clock and got home around 6. The actual answering of the questions didn't take that long, but you had to defend your answers during an oral exam. And those things take ages if their is only 1 professor for a whole bunch of people.
My own mistake though, I was finished quite early but wanted to make very VERY sure I didn't make any stupid mistakes. Little did I know the second part took that long...
I learned my lesson after that one.

An interview is always some sort of an examination, but an actual job has a lot longer examinations. In November I spend 3 days in front of a jury of customers defending and proving my designs during a design review.

On March 02 2011 19:38 annul wrote:
i've taken a 12 hour final exam before.

Say what? How does something like that go down: you start at 8amand the deadline to finish is 8pm?
Bankai - Correlation does not imply causation
Eeryck
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States184 Posts
March 02 2011 14:36 GMT
#46
For becoming a licensed professional engineer you take two 8-hour exams.

EIT (Engineer in Training) Covering all areas of Engineering, Civil, Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, Computers as well as Physics, Economics and a few other topics.

PE (Professional Engineer) Specializes in area you work, electrical for me, with further specialization in either power, computers or circuits.

Passed both easily. Once you learn how to take exams, the length and subject really becomes irrelevant.
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nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
March 02 2011 14:42 GMT
#47
3 hours was my longest exam on some Law paper :/ I spent my the last 45 minutes sleeping tho lol
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17305 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-02 18:20:43
March 02 2011 18:09 GMT
#48
On February 24 2011 02:21 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Well the United States standardized SAT (the exam that high schoolers take to get into a good college) is 3 hours and 45 minutes, which is probably the longest test that most Americans take. I've taken college exams that are around that long too. The worst was probably my math analysis (read as: Calculus 5) exam, which was about 3 hours and 30 minutes, and wasn't ridiculously easy like the SAT was -.-'

Isn't that the old length before they added the essay section, which is like another 30 mins plus downtime?

Most of my finals have 2-3 hour time-slots, but generally it's not all needed.

iirc all AP tests are about 3 hours, too.
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shreepy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States121 Posts
March 03 2011 02:12 GMT
#49
Longest test I have taken so far is the FE Info. The first half is a general exam given to all engineers, the second half is specialized to your discipline, Mechanical Engineering for me, in total it ends up being like 8 hours or so.
Mixed with the breaks and logistics on top of the test itself this ends up taking an entire Saturday where you come in early in the morning and leave at 6:00 p.m. or so. The test is fully comprehensive so I had questions on a huge range of coursework from basic chemistry to strengths of materials to heat transfer/fluids. Thankfully, since the test covers such a huge breadth of subject matter they don't tend to have incredibly in depth problems and the pass rate is actually quite reasonable.
imperfect
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada1652 Posts
March 03 2011 03:27 GMT
#50
wow you guys wrote some loooong exams;

i think my longest was 6 hours, i took the PCAT since i was thinking about pharmacy at UofT..

wasn't actually that bad. included 2 breaks i think. got like 60th percentile on reading comprehension TT
blind bisu free and anytime fanboy.
dydtaylor
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States12 Posts
March 03 2011 04:18 GMT
#51
My longest was 6 hours for the putnam math competition. It's kind of like the USAMO except on crack. To give you an idea, each problem is worth 10 points, there are 120 points total, and the median score is often below 10 (actually, from my stats, from 1998-2006 the highest median score was 3 points,the others being 1 and 0)
holy_war
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States3590 Posts
March 03 2011 04:24 GMT
#52
Took the Fundamentals of Engineering test was 8 hours long. Taking the test wasn't so painful but your brain just explodes afterwards.
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
March 03 2011 05:04 GMT
#53
This doesnt relate to test durations but I have a question about studying before exams. Lets say if you have 2 free hours before a test, basically a gap between another class... Would it be ideal to put in more study time into it or relax and try not be all hyped up about it?

I know its subjective since some can remain all calm and dandy about exams while others including me get really nervous, essentially the mind gets clouded.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
HeadhunteR
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Argentina1258 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-03 07:36:28
March 03 2011 07:35 GMT
#54
I passed the exam got a 4/10 (60% right) but didn't pass the group work part we got a 3/10 so I have to take the exam again the 3.5 turns into a 3 FAIL. Very weirdly Im not that bummed out, I did pass so I know that its possible to pass the whole thing According to many other students I know that this is the hardest subject in the whole career so Im practically Finishing the hardest part of my career. Sadly I will have to study this again in 4 months hope I remember all this. FML.
in The Kong line forever
infinitestory
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4053 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-03 07:45:24
March 03 2011 07:44 GMT
#55
On March 02 2011 22:21 DTK-m2 wrote:
USAMO is 9 hours, split up over two days.

This. Holy shit it's deadly.
for high schoolers only ~
Translator:3
jacosajh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
2919 Posts
March 03 2011 16:57 GMT
#56
The CPA test used to be a 2-day event. I'm glad we can break it up into separate days now (4 exams). But most of the "old-timer" CPAs I know had to do it this way. Insane.
roflpie
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Estonia93 Posts
March 03 2011 17:38 GMT
#57
Had 6 hours in the last year of high school to write a composition in Estonian, which all high schoolers have to write in order to graduate.
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