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Im about to fail a test

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juicedrummer11
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So im up studying for this test i have tomorrow, a 400 level class and its by far one of the hardest ive taken my whole college career and of course i have been putting shit effort into it and idk why. so here i am, about to take the first midterm tomorrow and i know like 10% of the test maybe.

I know im fucked and I know ill be having a chat with the professor by friday asking for some help on basically everything he covered the first 5 weeks. so i need something to bring me joy in these dark 12 hours.

its not on a bubble sheet or anything so i can't just go in and christmas tree answers in, but i was wondering if anyone had any other cool ideas so i don't just write my name on it and leave?
Oct 3 2013 1:49AM
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LoathesRaisins
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I was under the impression that most professors couldn't give two shits whether you show up or not. So just don't go?
Oct 3 2013 1:51AM
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Rafiki
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op is pregnant
Oct 3 2013 1:52AM
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VT_scratch
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some credit is better than no credit
Oct 3 2013 1:54AM
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LoathesRaisins
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But will the professor really take the time to grade a test that someone didn't take seriously?
Oct 3 2013 1:55AM
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daannnnieel
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At least your not wasting your parents money.
Oct 3 2013 1:56AM
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appa
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maybe this isn't what you need but a classmate of mine once drew a huge, majestic pirate ship on a free response question. he spent the entire test time detailing it. then he handed it in and dropped the class.

i drew a whole bunch of cats in one of my AP test booklets that had speech bubbles convincing the graders to go easy on me. totally passed so i think the cats worked well.
Oct 3 2013 2:04AM
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chicken
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what class is it?

I have gotten 14% on a mid term before and still did ok overall. I just had to bust my ass to ace the final.
Oct 3 2013 2:16AM
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SFB
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you suck op
Oct 3 2013 11:11AM
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90053
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who sucks OP?
Oct 3 2013 11:16AM
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Wallisch_pl
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wats op? does it taste good?
Oct 3 2013 11:20AM
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hey-dude-its-me
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find whichever page you know the least answers on and tear it out and act like your test was a misprint
Oct 3 2013 11:28AM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
aerodynamics. but there is one more midterm and a take home final that will probably be insanely hard since its a take home but should be able to do much better on those for sure.

and i really like the pirate ship idea followed by dropping the class. but i need this class to graduate otherwise i have to take an extra one next semester and nobody wants to have more classes during peak ski season.

maybe ill just draw cartoon airplanes with wind blowing in their faces since it follows the theme of the class
Oct 3 2013 11:35AM
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45.
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Here's a novel idea - get off NS and give it your best shot.

This is a clear testament to your work ethic. You more than likely would be better suited in a business degree, there's a reason becoming an engineer isn't easy.
Oct 3 2013 12:25PM
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yuck
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go to the campus clinic / wellness centre or whatever its called, assuming you have one, and tell them you have explosive diarrhea and vomiting and headaches and all sorts of stuff they cant physically deny just by looking at you. theyll fill out some form and you wont have to write it. at least thats how it works at my school. I did that once (when it was true) and afterwards realized that anyone could go in and say that and it would work. it took me about ten minutes to get out of a 35% midterm. which made my final worth 70% in that course but i killed the final so it worked out in my favor big time.
Oct 3 2013 1:44PM
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Phooka
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Juicedrumme delende est.
Oct 3 2013 1:57PM
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chicken
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I once got a concussion skateboarding to my mid term. I would have probably done OK on it anyways (it was a second-year stats course), but instead I got to sit on the couch for two weeks. My final was worth 70% and I had a full week to study for it which was actually fucking awesome.
Oct 3 2013 3:39PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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further proof that your really are fucking stupid.
Oct 3 2013 3:50PM
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skier58284
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Don't go, quit school, be ski bum
Oct 3 2013 4:40PM
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chicken
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stupid because I couldn't figure out the answer to a question in 50 minutes?

don't you have a BA/MA?
Oct 3 2013 5:53PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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jesus, i can't believe i have to spell this out for you...stupid because you managed to get a fucking 14% on a midterm. sad.
Oct 3 2013 6:07PM
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chicken
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what is your degree in? have you ever even had to write a difficult exam?

what about the part where I said I managed to ace the final?
Oct 3 2013 6:08PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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the fact that you put yourself in a position where you HAD to ace the final says enough.
Oct 3 2013 6:15PM
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yuck
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i like you as a member way more than chicken. but tbh i gotta side with him on this one. just because someone gets fucked on a midterm doesnt mean their stupid (in many cases, yes, but not always). a friend of mine just had terrible midterm scheduling and had to basically study for 6 eng/phys courses at once. needless to say, he wrote all six of the midterms in one week and scored a perfect 0 on one haha

hes not a dumb guy, he just was in a virtually hopeless situation. there are a lot of programs out there where even the "smart" people barely scrape by, and thats just the norm. I was in a class last year that had a 45% fail rate. lifes a bitch sometimes.
Oct 5 2013 1:46PM
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Guck
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I'm pretty sure that he is a Physics major, the average on the test was probably around a 50%/40% anyway. Give the kid a break
Oct 5 2013 4:30PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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Welcome to my life.
Oct 5 2013 5:01PM
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spliff.Life
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take meth
study hard
?????
Profit
Oct 5 2013 5:06PM
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corona
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you're a fucking idiot if you think completely bombing a midterm means you're stupid.

Some of the most intelligent people I know have done that poorly on tests in university. I've done that poorly on at least a test or two. I honestly don't know very many people who at some point haven't completely bombed a test.

the first midterm in first year calc comes to mind, where the class average was a miserable 40% or something close to there with about half the class getting under 25%. some of the people in that class have gone on to graduate with CGPA's of an A equivalent.


anyways. you're fucked if you think doing poorly on the test means you're dumb.
Oct 5 2013 5:45PM
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Shredsterr
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Says the kid who got suspended for smoking weed
Oct 5 2013 7:03PM
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Crispy.
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Instead of studying, why not just complain on NS?
Oct 5 2013 7:07PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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christ all mighty, you guys are thick. it's fucking chicken.
Oct 5 2013 7:16PM
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louie.mirags
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I'm confused... How could you be so far toward a degree then try to do little as possible to finish it? What's the point?Don't let that be the tone for your life...
Oct 5 2013 7:42PM
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r32kid
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obviously you're wrong but Im with you, fuck chicken all his ideas are voided by his persona. Barefootin wins this round
Oct 5 2013 11:05PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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obviously the sole act of failing one test does not make one dumb...just as the sole act of a high score on the act/sat does not make one a genius. however, when you combine that act with everything else the person brings to the table, you are able to make more of a conclusive statement....so I still stand by my statement.

but honestly, it was mostly intended to bust chicken's she-balls because she's a douche baguette i didn't think that all of this needed to be explained, but i guess i was wrong.
Oct 6 2013 12:48AM
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MilaKunis
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I feel like all chicken does is present a topic and then gets hammered on by everyone and as soon as he argues his point he is called a retard.
Oct 6 2013 1:45AM
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chicken
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average was 35%. There were only like 10 people in that class though and a couple other people bombed it so we brought that average down a lot. I think the median was probably a lot higher.

basically it just came down to me not studying enough. It's not like I knew the physics and couldn't work out the problem. It was I didn't know the physics yet and that left me with pretty much nothing. It took hundreds of years of theory and experiment for humans to figure that stuff out so it's not like I could have just pulled it out of my ass on a mid term.
Oct 6 2013 3:15AM
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chicken
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says this guy...

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Oct 6 2013 3:23AM
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chicken
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or wait that's not you is it haha? unless you got way uglier since then.
Oct 6 2013 3:28AM
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S.Ki
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1. Walk in
2. Look at test
3. If you can answer enough do it otherwise stand up rip the fucking paper apart and shout "fuck this shit imma be a pokemon-trainer" and leave
4.???
5. Proft
Oct 6 2013 7:02AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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seriously? uglier? what are you? a 14 year old girl? haha, you're such a loser.
Oct 6 2013 1:53PM
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Willgum
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Fuckin sick photo right there
Oct 6 2013 1:55PM
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chicken
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That wasn't meant as an insult. I just figured that picture wasn't you because I know you are uglier than that. It was just an observation.
Oct 6 2013 1:59PM
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deleted5
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Yeah says one of the coolest mother fuckers I've ever seen, you're not helping your case.
Oct 6 2013 2:09PM
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TechnoPotamus
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O_o


don't group us accounting and finance guys with the dumbasses in management and marketing
Oct 6 2013 2:26PM
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Wompuscat
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Well, my serious response, if you're in a 400 level Aerodynamics class, you should be able to study for 12 hours and still at least pass the exam....I mean, clearly to get to that difficult of a course you're rather intelligent to start with, and while it may not be close to the grade you would ideally get, it's better than failing your exam. I've had the same issue with courses I've taken, hell, one this semester even. Human Pharmacology, I'm an undergraduate but its a mix of grad students and undergrad students. This exam is multiple choice, but it's not one where you can eliminate the obvious choices and narrow it down. You have to know every single statement and every aspect of the material in order to do well. Didn't realize I had one coming up that next week, and I only got like 2 days of studying in for it. Ended up getting an A-. Granted, I didn't learn the material at all like I should have, and I'm basically going to have to re-study everything come time for the final, but at least the cramming saved me there. Granted, I got lucky as crap with that grade, we were curved to a 45% average, sooo yeah. I should have actually had like a C I believe.

Anyway, TL:DR - Cram the fuck out of the material for the short while you have, and pray to everything holy that there is a steep curve. If you have no curve, just do your best not to fail.
Oct 6 2013 2:41PM
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Malcolm
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Pay one of your classmates 300 dollars to tutor you for the next 12 hours
Oct 6 2013 3:23PM
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yuck
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damn man, you lose

thats the fucking raddest thing i have seen in a while. he is indeed a barefootin fiend!
Oct 7 2013 10:46AM
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Wallisch_pl
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op has already failed
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