Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Friday’s exam in Trigonometry was just one set of questions for both classes. After making two sets last time, it was something I believe they didn’t expect.

There were twenty-one questions for five points each. That gives them a possible total of 105 over 100. All of the types of questions were from the examples, with the possible exception of the first nine, which was a sneaky way for me to get them to verify the trigonometric functions of the special angles.

I gave them the exact values of the functions of thirty degrees. I told them to get the functions of sixty degrees and fifteen degrees using the double angle and half angle identities. Then they had to get the functions of 45 degrees using the sum of two angles identities.

One weird note was that Dudley, meeting me in front of the bookstore in the morning, asked me again if the identities would be given. When I replied in the affirmative, he said, “Yes!” like the winning goal in a game or something. Now I realize it may have been somewhat fake.

Deiv didn’t take the exam. He said he had an emergency, and suggested taking the exam of the second class. I told him to submit an excuse letter signed my one of his parents and I’ll give him a special exam next week.

Dudley may have been sending text messages during the exam. His phone was on his desk, and at one point he was handling something at his right side (he was at the row beside the window) and started guiltily when I looked his way.

Even the consistent top-notcher of the class was still answering when I called time. It’s a good thing 100% is based on the highest score then.

In the second class there were four students who I assume gave up after a little more than forty-five minutes had elapsed of the exam. One of them was a student who did not go to class for some time in the middle of the term, including Graphics One. I gave him and another student with the same behavior (and I also found out are from the same high school) a notice from the guidance counselor to schedule an interview on or before August 16. I don’t know yet if they complied. I’ll ask Counselor Marj.

This was the same student who ripped a page from his test booklet. That was when I realized I had neglected to write that instruction in the test paper. I had only written “All numbers are 5 points each”. Not that he passed it around or anything. When he passed his paper, he still had the torn portion in his hand.

It was also in the second class that Deiv showed up again. He had the note from his parent, which, I assumed he had gone with that time. He was still under the assumption that I would let him take the test then and there. I told him that he would have to have his letter signed by the dean.

That was when he got an inkling that he couldn’t take the test that day. He asked if I would let him take the test the following week, which is what I was trying to tell him all that time. I said yes, he would just have to coordinate with the secretary when I had no classes.

Friday was also the investiture of the new brother president of the system. There were some representatives (including Marj) who went. I would have gone too, except that they were leaving at noon and I was in the middle of the exam then. I still have to find out from the school’s website about how it went.

Last Monday I started and finished the last two chapters in my electricity and magnetism lecture class (magnetic fields and magnetic fields due to currents). That is, I gave them all the concepts and formulas, and we had some examples. I guess next meeting we'll have more practice problems.

I'll relate the rest, and Tuesday's events, next time. We're finished for now.