My high school German teacher used to joke, "I don't really grade these papers. I just stand at the top of the staircase and throw them down the stairs. The one that travels the longest distance gets an A. The paper with the second longest distance gets an A-, the third a B+, and so on."
Apparently, the time I spent learning to conjugate verbs in German should have been spent making my tests and quizzes as aerodynamic as possible.
