Yeah, I know what you mean. This happened to me as well!!
Two years ago, I had a neurolinguistics class. And I had to study hard. I bought books, got out of bed to go to lectures, the lot. Rough times. I studied, like, hard, for almost two weeks or something.
Then, it was D-Day: examination.
So I went. But, silly bugger that I am, like you I went to the wrong place. I ended up at a neurosurgery examination. Man, was that tough! At first, it all went went fine. The multiple choice questions were difficult, but I made up for it by writing a brilliant essay out of the top of my head about capillary telangectasias as a major vascular malformation. I remembered reading about that a few years earlier.
But the hard part was after the break. Practicum. I mean, already had an inkling that something was maybe wrong, what with the questions seemingly being so unrelated to all the stuff I studied about my neurolinguistic course on Wikipedia. But...practicum!? But I was there anyway, so I thought, well what the heck. Might as well finish it, test my luck a bit.
I expected a doll or something, but no, they brought in this old woman, under narcosis. And handed me these...tools. So now I was like: 'Oh my God!' I don't know if you've ever seen 'Saw', hospital horror movies? Something like that, but worse. Little drills, saws, scissors, in all sorts of sizes and shapes.
It was brilliant fun! I totally kept my cool and pretended I knew what I was doing. Little inciscion here, a cut there. I didn't have a clue what was going on, but I pretended I had studied her file, because by now, well I wanted to pass this exam, thought it was a fun challenge. 'Shall I remove some of this redundant tissue here, prof? According to Perrault and Arouet this will reduce craniosynostosis..'
The profesors thought I was really impressive, knowing so many extra-curricular information and all, so they gave me a free hand. In the end, I got top marks for it!
Okay, I am rambling on a bit. I guess there should be a moral. Maybe, err, that just because you end up at a completely unrelated examination doesn't mean you don't stand a chance. Bluff will get you a long way.
(Small language edit - Beirut)
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