Civil Engineering Exam Marking Chaos

Civil engineering exams are actually designed to destroy your sanity. I got my hands on

a first-year mechanics marking scheme and it is absolute chaos. It starts innocent enough with some

basic definitions about stress and boilers. But then, out of nowhere,

you’re stuck calculating rolling friction and deriving mass moment of inertia formulas.

The real nightmare is the final section. Look at this massive twenty-mark question where you have to

calculate the centroid for a shape that looks like a geometry puzzle from hell. One tiny calculator

slip on this diagram and your entire degree is basically toast.