Sounds like a really stupid move on your prof's part, Metope. Do you have any way of accessing the essays in English? Anyway, go for that end sprint!
Unbelievably enough, I scored a 35/40 on the mutliple choice test about neuroanatomy and physiology of last Friday. It had a lot of dry facts to go through, most notably all the neuron and brain structures and their functions in both human and rat, and I hadn't memorized nearly enough of them. Fortunately, the student's association has the exams of previous years posted online, and they appeared to recycle about 80 questions over the past three years, so that made me pretty confident I could get the 25 correct questions needed, but I never expected to only get five of them wrong! The next course is about 'perception and visual consciousness', whatever that means, but it's bound to be more interesting than this one. Woo, brains!