I'm an university student and in my university there are many pointless rules that do nothing except work against the students favour.
One of them that I found particularly annoying is that you cannot take a language exam in the same semester as your graduation. A practical example is if I want to graduate in October, I can't take the English exam in September, so if I don't pass the exam in June, I'm obliged to do it in September and graduate in February, so an entire year will be wasted without any logical reason.