May 05, 2004
Done with exams!
I finished my last exam of the semester today. The final I took yesterday was easier than expected, the one today harder than expected.
I hate when my preparation for an exam is completely wrong. I wrote up a few pages of dense notes to memorize for my exam today, just as I had done for my previous two midterms (the midterms and final in this class are all non-cumulative). I made these pages by asking myself, "What facts are my prof likely to test us on?" I then wrote all of those facts down. On the midterms, 90% of what was on those pages was on the test, and nothing that was on the test was not on those pages. I did exteremly well on the midterms. I thought I had this all figured out.
I did the same thing this time. And only about 40% of what was on my pages was on the test and about 40% of the test was on material not covered by my study notes. Urg. Missed the boat on that one. The prof gave us a study guide (which I geared my notes towards), but the study guide was waaaaaay off.
Oh well. I should still get a very good grade in teh class even if I bomb this exam because of how well I did on the midterms and the term project.
- wink [May 5, 2004 12:14 AM]syndromes says:
Well, congrats on being done, regardless of how well you did on the final :)
When does the next semester start up?
Jeremy Pierce says:
It's not as bad as that time you took a class pass/fail and figured out exactly how high your final exam score needed to be to pass the course, safely failing the exam but doing well enough, only to discover that the professor wasn't willing to abide by the syllabus and let you pass the course according to the criteria once he saw your grade on the final.
wink says:
O man...don't remind me. That was such a crappy day when I found out I failed that class.
I'll have to write a post about that someday.
says:
yeah! summer break!