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Make the 'Test'

Nothing like a semester break...but now it's back to business. Reading, homework, activities, studying and exams. I have always had an interesting relationship with exams dating back to my early years of elementary school.  I liked them, but not in the way you might think. I liked to make exams. I created my first exam before I had taken my first real exam in school. Yes, I created an exam....Hold the applause. Before you get too carried away with applause, let me be honest about the magnitude of this "exam"... I had a children's almanac growing up that I used to look through from time to time.  When I say time to time, I mean daily...and each year I would get a new one to dissect. For whatever which reason, I decided one day that I wanted to design an exam for some students to take and evaluate what they have learned. The only problem was the students were my siblings, and I had not taught them anything to test them on.  Nonetheless, I was sti