I spent all of today grading tests and quizzes, answering student emails (Needs-a-B got a D on the test, and I broke the news to her as gently as I could, though I still anticipate she’ll be in my office crying sometime later this week) and preparing my six and a half hours of classes tomorrow. Consequently, I did not have a chance to set this week’s precalculus test. Since it needs to be at the printers’ by tomorrow in order for me to have it by test day, I’m going to cobble together questions from the tests and exam I gave in the same course last term.”In theory, this gives my former students – the ones who took the same course with me last term, and failed – an unfair advantage.”In practice, however, it doesn’t.”