Midterm Mistakes =)

 

Meh, so overall my first round of midterms went pretty well, definitely getting better as the weeks wore on. I am onto my second round of midterms, having just finished Physics today (which I think went ok). Here are some funny things that happened on my first batch of midterms:

Chem 121: Guess the element.

This was the last question on the midterm and I had no idea how to do it. Something was reacted, vacuumed, recrystalized e.t.c and ended up being a white solid. >_<

Starting out I thought… hmmm maybe it is Rubidium it sounds pretty nice.

And then I was like, “Wait no, maybe I should guess Magnesium it is white when it is burnt…”

And then I thought “Nope scrap that let me just guess Calcium, that seems like something that they would put on an exam!!!” and I went with it.

…All three guesses were wrong, hence the red line through my wonderful guessing game, but hey I did get 1 mark for the scribbles up top!… Yaaayy for part marks!!!

Math 100: So this midterm was the one where the average was around 60% with EXTENSIVE scaling. Thank god for scaling, I ended up with an A+ which was nice… but I had massive math fail with one question. We had to use the squeeze theorem to prove that the limit of a function was 1/2. I was rushed for time and each time I found the limit it NOT 1/2!!! Panicking I tried again, nope it wasn’t working. I tried again, nope, nope, nope. Scribble, scribble, scribble. In the end I gave up and just wrote = 1/2 at the bottom, praying that the marker wouldn’t notice my limit calculating fail! Here is the response:

“all limit calculations are wrong!!” (Please note the double exclamation marks, oh no!!). Also note that not only did I get a little mini x for it being wrong, but the little x was not quite severe enough so I got an even larger X on top of the mini x!!! =) =) =)

P.s.: your marker will see EVERYTHING!

Now, onto studying for Math midterm no. 2!!


6 thoughts on “Midterm Mistakes =)

  1. p.s. you probably won’t find this all that funny unless you actually took the midterms that I took… but hey, that’s ok!

  2. hey who was your math 100 prof?? at first the writing totally looked like my profs writing! and our average was around the low 60s too for the first midterm….but then you said it was scaled…ours wasn’t haha.

    • Mine was M. Fazly! He was so great! And that first chem midterm…..that question completely messed with my brain…and I was running short on time — it was a gongshow! But I eventually learned to manage my time with exams, thankfully!

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