Final exams can be a make-or-break moment for college and high school students. For some, finals are their last opportunity to boost their grade above a certain average, going from that cursed B+ to that blessed A-. For others, it’s a slightly scary chance to fumble the bag, bringing their high grades down to their idea of mediocrity. I was lucky in college because I only had to take a handful of proper exams. Much like in high school, I found that finals usually weren’t anything out of the ordinary. They were a pretty good indicator of how I had been doing in the class already. If I did A- work all year, I would probably get an A- on the final. 

Although final exams are important, not all are meant to be. One professor recently went viral after sending the dreaded email to his class saying that more than half of the final exams from his physics class were accidentally thrown out at the university testing center. Oh, the humanity!