talking about being counter-intuitive & counter-productive

university is unarguably a classic example of bureaucracy.
i still remember in the management 101 class, the tutor told us how, in the university calendar (like a 500-page thick rules and regulations book for the university), it took about 10 pages to indicate how members of staff should dispose their rubbish.
and if i did learn something during my undergrad years, it was: YOU SHOULD ALWAYS COMPLAIN.
complaining doesn't help to solve the problem, but your voice needs to be heard.
so when it comes to the next round(s) of the same sh*t, they will try to fix them.
i have experienced some improvements over my grad student life time.
and thanks to those who constantly complain to the authority.
there's this wonderful thing about the university system called "class reps".
they gather together to pass on the complaints they receive from the student body to the department.

i'm saying all this BS mainly because of my French homework.
and it's not like it's hard or anything, c'mon for god's sake, it's just a language course, how hard can it be?
it involves absolutely no maths! not even simple 2-digit addition!
it's just that i've been doing it since last night and it takes forever to finish (well, there's a whole pile of them to start with: 7 chapters!), and the worse part is that it's a multi-media one.
you need to do it on a disc and then it corrects you before printing a report.
here comes the frustrating/counter-intuitive/counter-productive part: you need to make various attempts until you get 100%, otherwise, your marks will get deducted!
now, where does that come from?
first, it's my choice whether to do it or not.
2nd, it recognises it as wrong even if it was a typo.
3rd, if the accents are not correct, it's WRONG.
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then you just have to try over and over and over again until you get it right.
i think this system is just so counter-productive.
if i was writing it down, then i can scribble all over it and make it right, but no, you can't do it on here.
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so that's partly why i'm still stuck here trying to score 100%.

though having worked for a government that thinks it can do business better than the businesses themselves, i guess i understand how the professors think.