And the essay writing for the Russian exam is pure nonsense. Or rather, don't call it an essay. Any essay is a free expression of one's thoughts, but here it's just a stupid attempt to fit one's "arguments" into an official format... And it's also wrong to require exactly 3 arguments in support of one's "opinion" about the problem in the text - you can provide one, but a good one... And poor students are forced to learn how to write nonsense...
I have a friend in the ninth grade.
She took the exam.
She came out of the exam room, her hands were shaking, her eyes were wild :) Because it's hard to write without notes :).
+ those jerks took away her lucky pen with a dolphin on it.
Actually, I also prefer regular exams =).
Because I already have a couple of tricks up my sleeve... hehe... ;)
