If you think that the standard of writing is bad, then you should check out the Engineering students.

I knew a degreed mechanical engineer who couldn't do simple trig (with a full function calculator) and who couldn't calculate the weight of a pressure vessel.

Another couldn't get the tube out of a spray bottle, it had fallen off inside the bottle and the lip at the top of the bottle had him completely fooled. I straightened a paper clip and stuck it down the tube. He was amazed and said he'd spent half an hour trying to get it out.