When you were in high school, studying was made easy by a study guide or review sheet. The topics were covered in length and examples were given. You came into the test feeling prepped and ready to make an A. Well when you get to college, those study guides lose their handiness. You get a narrow, boring, and questionable study guide at best. Half of the topics you have not covered yet. Others are ideas that you touched on briefly for two seconds in class one morning. Some are random terms you have never even heard of. You don't feel sure of yourself going into the test. You feel more confused now then you did before you opened the study guide. College is an on going question mark. Seriously, I'm confused for at least 3 hours a day in college. Whether it's about work, or schedules, or personal stuff I need to get done, I'm like a chicken walking around without its' head. It's a pain in the butt and these horrible study guides make it all the worse.
I don't have time to guess what you are trying to get out there. My confidence is tested and my desire to actually come to class and learn is diminished. Why would I sit through a two hour class to not be given a test on what you taught? I mean is it really that hard to send out a useful study guide these days? I feel like it isn't. But I don't know what you do in your free time. It's obviously not creating a review that is actually relevant to what you are teaching me and asking me to know. Maybe you're watching netflix. I'd like to be doing that, but instead I'm killing myself trying to study for your horribly prepared test. Could you please put the stuff you want us to understand and not the stuff that isn't pertinent to what we are doing? I'm tired of opening test booklets to see random terms about plants when I'm trying to understand the anatomy of the cardiovascular system. It's getting annoying. So can you work on that and maybe I can work on my annoyance level with you. Please and Thank You.
*FYI I wrote this to vent and not be rude about my professor, but it has just been one of those days. I need coffee, chocolate, and maybe a kitten to calm me at this point.
