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Oh yeah. Its that time of year. Got finals everyday mon-thurs. The grand finale is a paper for my criminology class which has to be typed within the 2-hour allotted timetable. It consists of 2 Questions... Sounds easy right? Nope. The first question is worth 100 points and is required to be at least 4 pages long. The second question is worth 150 points and must be 6-8 pages long. By the way, we wont find out the questions until we go in there on thursday.

This on top of having tests to study for every day, is going to make my blood pressure shoot through the roof.


Blitzer

Yeah, I really hate finals.

I'm on the fringe in Discrete Math. I have like a 72%. The final, worth 1/3rd of the final grade, is absolutely make-or-break for me. My test average has been 76%, so I should be in line to pass, provided I perform along the lines of what I have done in the past.

With that said, Discrete Math is a prerequisite for my Data and Algorithms class. It's vital, and serves as a prerequisite for a big chunk of the upper-level Computer Science classes. So if I don't pass Math, it bumps Algorithms back a semester, which basically bumps my entire college career back a semester.

I really need to pass this test.

Good luck! My son is starting his final week Thursday. His school starts at the end of the week and spans the weekend, he really loves that. He finishes Monday.

I remember that angst and worry about finals, and although it probably won't help if there is one piece of advice I could give is study hard, do your best, and don't sweat it. It's important, but in 20 years when you list your 20 most stressful situations in life I'm guessing finals week won't even make the list.

It looks like Mt. Everest, but it's really just a hill. A steep son of a gun, but just a hill.

StLBlitzerMM515 wrote:Oh yeah. Its that time of year. Got finals everyday mon-thurs. The grand finale is a paper for my criminology class which has to be typed within the 2-hour allotted timetable. It consists of 2 Questions... Sounds easy right? Nope. The first question is worth 100 points and is required to be at least 4 pages long. The second question is worth 150 points and must be 6-8 pages long. By the way, we wont find out the questions until we go in there on thursday.

This on top of having tests to study for every day, is going to make my blood pressure shoot through the roof.


Blitzer

You have to write 10-12 pages in 2 hours? Christ.

I'm in the happy zone for most of my classes. Where I'd have to do extremely well to move up a grade and extremely poor to move down.

It's part of my personality as far as being real relaxed, but the students that completely freak out over any tests especially finals were my favorites. Watching them get to class early and try and cram everything or make sure they know everything. These are the same people that feel they are benefitting from using the full class period to finishing their test, I was always one of the 1st to finish.

Also, I was the type that would study an hour a day a couple of weeks before the finals b/c I tried to cram, I would not do nearly as well. The only way I would cram would be if I could cheat.

Good luck to all.

I'm a weird duck, in the fact that tests made my grade. While others that were smarter than me would study all night and still do bad on tests (I think it was nerves), I would just slide in and do better on tests than my regular grade.

I don't know why, but I'm not complaining.

The calculus professor decided the semester grade would not be lower than the grade on the final exam, which turned a C to an A.
Then there was the Philosophy 101 prof who announced the first day of class there would be no papers or tests all semester, you would keep a journal and grade yourself.

dangerous wrote:The calculus professor decided the semester grade would not be lower than the grade on the final exam, which turned a C to an A.
Then there was the Philosophy 101 prof who announced the first day of class there would be no papers or tests all semester, you would keep a journal and grade yourself.

That is so zen like.

What did you give yourself? Ah never mind, if you took the class seriously you know it doesn't matter, right?

I only have finals Wednesday and Thursday, but I have to present a six-page research paper that will only require an 11 out of 35 points to get a "C" on. Then I have to re-write a 10-page memoir by Thursday.

Reporting class is a breeze and I haven't studied for my mass comm final, but who really cares, right?

GatewaySnayke wrote:I only have finals Wednesday and Thursday, but I have to present a six-page research paper that will only require an 11 out of 35 points to get a "C" on. Then I have to re-write a 10-page memoir by Thursday.

Reporting class is a breeze and I haven't studied for my mass comm final, but who really cares, right?

6 pages? How did you get away with a 6 pager?

I remember in undergrad we usually had 10 page papers.

lol! My introduction to my 25 page research paper is 2.5 pages.