Maybe the instructions made sense for people writing it by hand, but they demanded “one page single spaced and approximately two pages double spaced” for a total of five short answers. Followed by a 5-7 page essay.

Now I have a severe written language disability and need to write everything out by a word processor. You wouldn’t know it here, and that’s because I shoot from the hip/have endured an ungodly lot to get to this point. A page single spaced is 500 words. I ran the numbers and to complete this exam you would have to be typing 5,000 words. No human fucking being can do that and make a coherent argument in one sitting (they wanted it to be a proper essay with a thesis, intro, body, conclusion).

The neurotypicals had three hours to sink that shot and this is why I believe something went wrong. I had time and a half. I wrote the short answers and by the essay I realised that by the time I synthesised a structure and argumentative thrust I’d be out of time.

I’m emailing my ta, and it’s not going to go well because I talked to him about this during class and he stared at me like a deer in the headlights. Nobody teaching this course has run into this problem, likely because the pandemic made them forget.