kempy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xsavvyx) wrote,@ 2009-05-12 14:16:00 |
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Aspirations
Given final exam grades, here's what I'm hoping for in my class... I wish these were so much better:
Set Theory - A? (Maybe? No fucking clue, 'cause I never got my grade for my midterm and there's no pre-determined curve... Really don't think it should be less than a B)
213 - C (I think I needed to get a 60 on the exam to get a C... I think I might have gotten about that, hopefully with a mild curve, I will get a C, I think I needed something like a 92 to get a B.... Yeah, that's not happening...)
312 - C (Holy shit that exam was terrible, let's hope I get a C)
Econ - B (I think it's pretty hard for me to not get a B)
I really need to figure out some way to improve my exam performance or get extra time or something. I never finish exams and I find I am rushed for time even on the questions I do finish. I had less than half of the 213 exam finished 2 hours into it. And consequently ended up with a few questions unanswered. I just don't know why I can't do exams faster... In high school algebra, I did tests twice (literally, I got two copies of the test) and was done both of them before anyone else had finished their one copy. I wish I could do that with college exams...
I also wish I knew what to study. Some classes it's straightforward like 213 and most math classes. But 312? Yes I know how to prove safety and write an evaluator and type-checker. Will that help me at all on the exam? No. Another thing about 312 is that the syntax is just horrifying. I know what the rules should be, but do I know how to write them? Not in some cases with memory, apartness, "it doesn't matter what order these come in," etc. And I think that a non trivial amount of the time that I wasted on that exam was that I didn't know how to write down what I wanted to.
Economics is dumb and not allowing students to ask questions on the exam is even dumber. I really wish Cummings would have e-mailed me my midterm grade for Set Theory so that I would have had some idea of how I was doing...
Arg blarg I am Kempy and I am worried about my grades. (Surprise? No.)
Given final exam grades, here's what I'm hoping for in my class... I wish these were so much better:
Set Theory - A? (Maybe? No fucking clue, 'cause I never got my grade for my midterm and there's no pre-determined curve... Really don't think it should be less than a B)
213 - C (I think I needed to get a 60 on the exam to get a C... I think I might have gotten about that, hopefully with a mild curve, I will get a C, I think I needed something like a 92 to get a B.... Yeah, that's not happening...)
312 - C (Holy shit that exam was terrible, let's hope I get a C)
Econ - B (I think it's pretty hard for me to not get a B)
I really need to figure out some way to improve my exam performance or get extra time or something. I never finish exams and I find I am rushed for time even on the questions I do finish. I had less than half of the 213 exam finished 2 hours into it. And consequently ended up with a few questions unanswered. I just don't know why I can't do exams faster... In high school algebra, I did tests twice (literally, I got two copies of the test) and was done both of them before anyone else had finished their one copy. I wish I could do that with college exams...
I also wish I knew what to study. Some classes it's straightforward like 213 and most math classes. But 312? Yes I know how to prove safety and write an evaluator and type-checker. Will that help me at all on the exam? No. Another thing about 312 is that the syntax is just horrifying. I know what the rules should be, but do I know how to write them? Not in some cases with memory, apartness, "it doesn't matter what order these come in," etc. And I think that a non trivial amount of the time that I wasted on that exam was that I didn't know how to write down what I wanted to.
Economics is dumb and not allowing students to ask questions on the exam is even dumber. I really wish Cummings would have e-mailed me my midterm grade for Set Theory so that I would have had some idea of how I was doing...
Arg blarg I am Kempy and I am worried about my grades. (Surprise? No.)
