I suppose I should have seen this coming. You provide a nice, quite room for the final exam, so why should it be surprising that a student takes this as an invitation to nap? Especially given that this is a student who attended — slept through — just about every class meeting of the term?
At least there was no audible snoring.
Oooh, can I grade THAT one?
Matthew and I were very perplexed by the naps throughout the semester. We have come to a tentative diagnosis of narcolepsy…dyssomnia is more interesting than poor etiquette.
So they slept through the final exam? Or completed it and decided to sleep through the duration?
I can’t imagine how stupid I’d feel if I fell asleep during my exam and didn’t finish it
I would never fall asleep on a completed exam paper, because the drool marks would obscure the obviously correct answers.
When I was in HS there was a requirement that students had to remain in the classroom for at least 2 of the 3 hours alotted to a final exam. We had a bio-chem teacher who was, um, lax, in his classroom discipline. Most of the AP bio-chem students finished the final in about 45 minutes. It consisted of 12 short answer questions. I wasn’t in the class so I don’t know what they were, but I had friends who were there. Anyway, one of the students really wanted to go to a good school, so he tried extra hard. Wrote out a couple of pages for each question, with charts and diagrams and supporting notes, etc. Meanwhile the other mooks couldn’t leave so they turned on the radio and ate donuts and drank soda for an hour or so until the time limit had passed. The teacher never even noticed as far as anyone could tell. He was in his office at the back of the room with the door closed.
The guy got into Penn, BTW, and did very well there, so I guess there is a silver lining.
Just wondering…is it possible your student has to work while going to school? Lots of kids do these days; at K-State I knew kids who were working 30 hours per week while going to school full time. With studying, it didn’t leave much time for sleep.
On the other hand, I had a guy in my undergrad major who slept through every class. He was a big partyer. He did not, however, sleep through the finals – and he got A’s in everything. Too bright for his own good.
IF ONLY I could have afforded school and a place to live on only 30 hours of work a week. I didn’t sleep in class, but there many times when I felt that if I stopped writing, or stopped doing something beyond merely listening, I would be unconscious.