Strict professor wants me to prove that I'm trying to improve my grades?

I'll give her just that then.

When I was a freshman in college, I had a maths teacher who was very strict about how she taught,

and, more importantly, about how she expected us to learn.

For example, she would force students to take notes, and if they didn't, she would make them leave.

During our midterm exam, someone asked how much time was left, and she said, five minutes.

Now at this point, I was only about halfway done with the test, so I rushed and finished it barely in time.

Me and most other students delivered the test and left the room.

When I checked my phone, I realized that there was a whole other 20 minutes left.

The students who hadn't finished in time told me that after we left, she realized that

she'd read the clock wrong, and gave them another 20 minutes that me and the others didn't have.

I've always been pretty good at math, but obviously, after rushing half the test, I didn't get a good

grade. The part I didn't rush was perfect, though. The next class, after showing us our results,

she said that we needed to develop a strategy

to improve our grades.

She said that if we created a plan, stuck to it, and provided evidence of us doing it,

she'd give us some extra credit.

What she expected us to do was say something like, I'll practice every week and submit pictures of us doing it as

evidence, or something like that. Now, while I didn't blame her for reading the clock wrong,

I did blame the fact that I thought I only had five minutes left for not doing well on that last

test. I was confident that I could have gotten a perfect grade on it if I had the extra 20 minutes.

And so what I said I would do is bring a watch to the next exam.

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