Prick C.
I'd been encouraged by my maths teacher to take the higher tier paper, which, by definition was a whole level above the maths that was already poking me in the eye with a pointy stick and giving me a headache.
If I had opted to do it, I wouldn't have even gotten my C, I would have had a D; D for DENIED!
Bringing my highly relevant preamble bang up to date by, oh, about 15 years, I recently took a couple of assessment tests for a course I'm going to be taking and sailed through the English modules (*smug face*) but I may as well have dribbled on the maths one and coloured it in with crayons.
Do you know why? There are a number of possible reasons, including the fact that I haven't actively done that kind of maths for roughly 8 years (previous college course), that I wasn't ever really very good at it, or maybe even that I was rushing through it to get to the English bit. I think it relies on one thing:
Maths is WRONG.
Ok, maybe not all maths, I'm not going to argue the toss over 2 + 2 = 4, but there is one section that gets my goat: statistics. I know that you may read this and think "Oh wow, she's actually on the spectrum" but just have a think about what I'm about to say.
How is there any other "chance" than 50/50?
One either wins the Lottery or one doesn't, doesn't it irritate you when people say "I was nearly a millionaire last night! I only needed two more numbers!" Well, you didn't win then did you?
As the saying goes: "a miss is as good as a mile".
With multiple choice questions, you may have a number of options, but you either get it right, or you don't, am I right?
This might seem like a completely ludicrous idea and my lovely man tears his hair out when I vocally entertain it; I mean, in truth, I know full well that this isn't how statistics work, I don't know how to work them out very well, thankfully I don't have to use that sort of maths in day to day life (I BLOODY well told you, Miss Aspinall!) and I've been accepted on to the course.
It was just something for you to think about...or not; you either will or you won't. 50/50, you see?
