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Tuesday 11 August 2009

Polity Exam - three points, right through the uprights...

Well, that's it - it's done, written, PDF'd, and sent through to the District Office for onward transmission to EMMU.

If you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking out, it's the Polity examination that we wrote at College today. For those of you who don't speak MCSA, its an examination that attempts to test our knowledge of that horrid little red and white book, the Laws and Disciplines of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. I say "horrid", because while it's intended to be a benchmark for good governance within the Church, we unfortunately have some modern-day Pharisees who seek to apply it as a new Torah, and that's when things can get a little ugly.

Anyway, the exam is over, after a 10-hour battle of attrition between me and the question paper. Now I understand why they give us 24 hours to complete what appears to be an innocuous one-page question paper containing a mere seven questions! At least my agony is over - some poor soul at EMMU has to mark the 18-page "thud test" script that I've submitted as my answer...

1 comment:

Fat Prophet said...

That sounds just like the Constitution, Practice and Discipline of the Methodist Church which is equally cumbersome and often applied with an iron fist but no velvet glove by the Pharisees and sadducess of British methodism