Return of the fat arsed work bandit...

Rather than dwell on the title too much (otherwise I'm going to get in a lot of trouble) I feel i need to rant. Now I'm all for revision, as much as it feels like a incredible pain for a bunch of poxy tests that are supposed shape my life, but that's another story. What I am against is spending quite a while doing work, finishing it, handing it in, moving on to looking at some more rubbish topics, to be then told (just before the holidays where i was aiming to relax for a short period before kicking into a lot of revision) 'All that work you did, it's not right'.

For those affected, they know exactly what I am talking about. Now this is different to been given a piece of coursework back as a draft and told what you need to change (usually within a short period of handing it in, you get it back). This is a case of handing it in waiting for over a month, when your mind has moved on to different things, and getting it back, not being told really what you need to do to get a better mark, but get yelled at for 'not putting this in, this in....I told you all this needed to put this in'.

This is usually all met with glancing looks around between the class, the patented 'o shit' position on the desk with your head in your hands and overall a probable feeling of being dumped in a big pile of the brown stuff (coloured if you buy stuff from the ice cream van). Now we have to go back and in some case re make half the work that we have already done, because all of us haven't done something we apparently 'were all told to do'. Now unless I'm being stupid, doesn't it tell you something if 20 plus people haven't done something, that is 'vital' to getting a good grade, we were not told about it.

To be perfectly honest, this has been a problem since the start. Every piece of work in that subject that we have handed in (or me anyway) has not been anywhere close to right first time. I have my own theories for this issue. We have rushed and rushed to get through the bulk of the work, but this plan to get it all done has spectacularly as we have spent more time going back and going over the majority of our work. In my opinion, rightly or wrongly, if there was such a issue time wise, all our lessons should of been planned out better and we should of worked through each piece with more detailed, with regular check on our progress and any issues would be notified.

By doing this, at least we would of had a smaller chance of messing it up and it would allow us to spend less time doing work over and over again.

And also of made people have a feeling of not 'This is the worst subject I have ever done and wished i didn't pick it' to being actually be able to cope with it. However its too late for that now.