After being here since January, you would think that I'd have become used to the idea of the French running on their own time system. Not so.
For every exam we were told to be in the room 30 minutes early for roll call and instructions. Being late to this could possibly make us unable to take the test when it was administered.
This threat is really nothing new here. I have heard variations of it throughout the semester in different classes and always it is the same - people disobey but are still allowed to complete the test/assignment. But this time seemed different in that there were always mass groups of people clustered around the ampitheatres where the tests are administered.
So yesterday afternoon we were all there again at precisely 13h30 to begin the roll call for our oral comprehension exam only to find out that the testing group using the room before us had yet to finish. We ushered ourselves into an unoccupied amiptheatre and waited. Forty-five minutes later we were allowed to begin our own exam. So much for punctuality.
For every exam we were told to be in the room 30 minutes early for roll call and instructions. Being late to this could possibly make us unable to take the test when it was administered.
This threat is really nothing new here. I have heard variations of it throughout the semester in different classes and always it is the same - people disobey but are still allowed to complete the test/assignment. But this time seemed different in that there were always mass groups of people clustered around the ampitheatres where the tests are administered.
So yesterday afternoon we were all there again at precisely 13h30 to begin the roll call for our oral comprehension exam only to find out that the testing group using the room before us had yet to finish. We ushered ourselves into an unoccupied amiptheatre and waited. Forty-five minutes later we were allowed to begin our own exam. So much for punctuality.
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