Well, it finally happened to me. I have never taken a “bluebook” exam before. I have always taken them on my laptop. Today, however, I went to start up my exam software and it failed the security check! Yikes! My first reaction was that this was a mistake and I must have hit a wrong key. I rebooted and still nothing. I disabled almost all running programs I could think of and still nothing. Time is wasting.

I finally gave up and took a bluebook and hand-wrote my exam. I think I did pretty well and I was able to finish well before the time limit, but the stress of finding out at the last minute that my software did not work was a little unsettling.

After I got home I called the support line and found out what the problem was and corrected it. The moral of the story is that you should always be prepared for the “unthinkable” to happen during exam time. Don’t stress about it, just be prepared in case something happens. And always check, double check, and triple check your software! God bless and have a great day.