Of course, that's bullshit. I'm doing A level Art at the moment, and 2 out of 3 projects/ pieces of coursework, I've determined what I want to do, and I've gone ahead and developed myself. The third was of course the exam, which I'm still doing, but I got to choose it myself out of a selection of questions. You've obviously never done art.
Shit, how did you manage to get a U?...I worked for like the last month and got an A* o_0