In my first year of college right now, and on the first test we had to write some C# ConsoleApplications. We got instructions of what we have to taken as input, what we had to do with it and output it to the console.

I've tested them all and they all work correctly, which was the main objective. I have used the correct data structures, but I didn't get top mark. Instead, I got lower because "I didn't do it her way".

WELL F*CK YOU TOO!!! I hope this is not how every test/exam goes

At least a "right way", or some solution exists in these cases.
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Quite sadly, during my first year in computer science , my programming teacher gave me to option to pass with a 5 or fail and try for a higher grade because I had used a method that she hadn't yet thought us and that it didn't impress her in any way that I had more knowledge than my classmates .

Been there, done that.

Well, I still am.

That's how your college will be. That's how your life will be

What was "her" way of doing things? What was the question?

If I were to play a devil's advocate, I can understand her position somewhat.

Suppose that there is a question asked to use a while loop but you used a for loop. If the question was to test your knowledge on while loop, then you shouldn't get a full mark.

I am just trying to see if that is the case.

@dance2die it isn't the case where I used the wrong loop, the question was that we had to remove all even numbers from a List without making a new one. She didn't specify how and what, so I used LINQ to do it.

Now she probably didn't think anyone would do that, so she only thought of a reverse-iteration and remove them that way.

I don't really care about it any more, as I've talked about it with her and she would get the test from archives so we can review it together sometime and discuss it.