General

Chat

Dem college Finals

I have a final that's worth 40% of my total grade tomorrow, and here I am on Basil procrastinating. Yey =D

I remember one of my old physical chem classes where each question on my final was worth a letter grade.... x.x

December 8, 2012

14 Comments • Newest first

powerguy121

I actually prefer these largely weight finals. The finals that I'm taking are 50%, 40%, and 25% of my entire course load.

Reply December 8, 2012
Gearwork

finals that are worth that much points are stupid. all that tells me is that you can half ass the entire semester but do good on the final and you'll pass so why bother doing any other assignments

Reply December 8, 2012
sakurarose8955

I have to create my own font for my Typography final project.

Reply December 8, 2012
FalenXangel

what's up with all these low % finals... my calc final's worth 75%

Reply December 8, 2012
oxaloacetate

I have a comp exam in 9 hours and im on basil.

Reply December 8, 2012
NoNsensical

My last final is on Friday and it's for a class where there's only four tests, including the final, and they're all worth 25% of your grade. My teacher is dropping the lowest test. Looks like I'm taking that day off.

Reply December 8, 2012
xreminiscing

@Classicvibe An average of over 50% is too high for any science class at my school. Whenever a class exceeds that, the professors purposely make the next exam even harder to prove a point..I really don't understand why they make it so unnecessarily hard. I'm pretty sure most people do understand the basic material, but they always try to make us feel like we don't know anything.

Reply December 8, 2012
Classicvibe

[quote=omega12311]@xreminiscing:
yeah I'm guessing they get too technical, that's why I went into Social Sciences[/quote]

yeah haha, although personally I liked being a science major so I didn't have to write 15 page essays xD

To each their own I suppose.

Reply December 8, 2012
Classicvibe

[quote=omega12311]@Classicvibe:
OH cool, what type of science, I'm a political science major so we do a lot of writing on our test since all answers are opened ended.[/quote]

Chemistry

we're like the inbetweens of Biology and Physics, there's only 200 of us in my college too

My tests go everywhere from open ended free response to pure math depending on the subfield, physical chem has a lot of math but biochem is really conceptual
No essays though.

@xreminiscing

ikr? I swear the professors at my school use ochem as some kind of hazing ritual. One of my ochem prof's paraphrased lectures was how he was going to make our final so hard we'd get our asses kicked, so that it wouldn't hurt as much when we got our asses kicked again next quarter....

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited
xreminiscing

@omega12311 Pretty much all of my science classes: physics, chem, bio, etc. The average on one of my organic chem midterms was a 28%.

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited
Irony

its ok tmr is my mit non linear equations final and we hav a final test thats the only mark for our grade so its basicly pass or fail dam i shud study or i wont b able to graduate and go to harvard law skool T.T

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited
xreminiscing

[quote=omega12311]dayum is the final at least some what fair?
My Law final is gonna be worth 50 points out of 100 total in the class but its at least gonna be open note / open book (its essay based)[/quote]
My finals are worth 40% and the average is usually well below 50% because of how ridiculously hard the tests are .

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited
Classicvibe

[quote=omega12311]dayum is the final at least some what fair?
My Law final is gonna be worth 50 points out of 100 total in the class but its at least gonna be open note / open book (its essay based)[/quote]

probably....haha

I'm a science major so I don't have much experience with essay thingies lol =P

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited
Classicvibe

[quote=x4znDreamer]Cool, I guess. Hope you fail![/quote]

I won't

Reply December 8, 2012 - edited