@julia999 I wouldn’t count on it :)
Especially on some of the more cutthroat engineering exams such as the early college weed-out courses, or the post-grad FE. Someone forgot to tell the engineering profs that in the real world of engineering, you have much more than 2 minutes to put together an exact answer, and units only count if you’re working with a particularly difficult or foreign customer. Even in that case, most people I talk to on an every day basis know when I say “pound” it could mean psia, psig, lb-mass, or I could even be referring to the class rating of a flange. In all of these situations, the word “pound” means very different things, but it is said with a high degree of confidence in the understanding of your audience.
But to address the reality here – we’re talking about a college exam where reality-based situations have never crossed most professors’ minds. This fact proves to be probably the only dose of literary irony you will ever see in your engineering coursework.
Sorry for the downer – I’m 4 years in as a career engineer, and I love it, but I found college material useless then, and that feeling has only strengthened in the years since. Long rant here with little reason, but I hope all went well with your end of semester – good luck and take the FE immediately.