The assembly on the test was much larger than the snippet you provided. I wish a kept a copy of the old test so I could just copy and example problem. Honestly though, that wasn't the worst part of the tests. It was the most dangerous though because many of the questions/instructions relied on previously completed questions/instruction to be correct.
So, like if you passed a wrong value to a certain register, then downstream, every problem that used that register would be off.
The tests were often 4 pages front and back with the handwritten assembly, definition matching, word problems, essay responses, etc.. We had like 75 minutes to take the test too. This was all at a public, no-name state university too. I was no MIT student or anything.
Anyway, I'll never forget the first day of class. Our professor said we were to have 4 tests and a final and some labs.
My friend in the class: "If we make a 100 on all 4 tests, do we have to take the final?"
The professor: "Hell, if you make 100 on 4 test, then I will let you write the final."
My friend: "Why? Has no one ever done that before?"
Professor: "No, in fact, in the 20 years I have taught this class, no one has ever scored a 100 on any test."
So, like if you passed a wrong value to a certain register, then downstream, every problem that used that register would be off.
The tests were often 4 pages front and back with the handwritten assembly, definition matching, word problems, essay responses, etc.. We had like 75 minutes to take the test too. This was all at a public, no-name state university too. I was no MIT student or anything.
Anyway, I'll never forget the first day of class. Our professor said we were to have 4 tests and a final and some labs.
My friend in the class: "If we make a 100 on all 4 tests, do we have to take the final?"
The professor: "Hell, if you make 100 on 4 test, then I will let you write the final."
My friend: "Why? Has no one ever done that before?"
Professor: "No, in fact, in the 20 years I have taught this class, no one has ever scored a 100 on any test."
We all knew we were in for hell after that.