Math Exam

This past week was exam week. It's funny, they do exams to make sure you have learned everything you should have learned, but if your like me you learn the stuff the forget it. With history and journalism I remember pretty much everything, but math and biology there is no chance! So the week before is basically me holed up in my room attempting to cram four months worth of daily information into my brain. It didn't help that I was still recovering from a certain medical problem either, but all thing's considered I think I did pretty well. Journalism, history, band, biology, and video production at least not so sure about math though.
Math is actually what I wanted to briefly write about. So we get this study packet and it's like 10 pages or something with problems from every section we worked on. Unfortunately I missed when the class was working on the first half of the packet and so by the time I came back to school I felt totally lost. Well spent most of the weekend silently freaking out (and sometime openly) it was like I was walking toward an impending doom and I couldn't do anything to save myself. I went to my friend Kismet's house and she helped me a bit, but there was just so much more of the packet. The night before the test I was up till about 2:00 fervently doing math problems. Then the next day at 7:30 am I sat in my class room and waited. The test was passed out, and as I looked upon the pages and pages of numbers I had a feeling of calm float over me, I could do this. I started methodically doing problem after problem there where only two so far I hadn't been able to do. At 30 problems I glanced up at the clock I only had half an hour to go! In one hour and 30 minutes I had only completed 30 problems. I had 50 to go. I randomly bubbled in the 50 answers and then in my remaining 20 minutes tried to do as many problems as I could re-writing my random bubble-ins all of which were wrong. It was a horrible feeling, I could have done those problems but each one took me about 1-2 minutes and I only had between 20-30 seconds. Maybe less.
So let me write here, that I protest the American math exam system. Seriously people! Either give us more time or less problems, this exam was not a test of my math ability it was a test of how fast I could put answers in, which was not something I was prepared for.