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How to Recover From a Bad Midterm

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Huanir
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States85 Posts
March 04 2010 04:53 GMT
#1
-Complain to your friends about the test; this is especially helpful if you have friends in the class who have similar feelings.

-Engage in a simple yet engrossing activity, like making peanut-butter-and-jelly tortilla sandwiches for your living block.

-Be understanding of the plight of your roommate who has a test the next day. This isn't so much helpful to you as to him, but virtue is its own reward, is it not?

-Now that you have the time to do so, watch the TSL Finals!

-Dedicate your 50th TL post to how you've coped.

So yeah... I had a Computer Networks test today, and it wrecked me. Part of it was insufficient detail in my studies (whenever I'd get lost in the test, it'd be a terminology problem rather than a conceptual one). Part of it was succumbing to pressure (the ARP caches were empty, so why did I think R2 would reply to the ARP request instead of PC3?). Part of it was overconfidence (the homework was really easy comparatively). But for better or for worse, it's done, and now I can feign some degree of enlightenment to an internet community.

Good luck in your midterms, TL!

Lord of the Rings was the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century, period. ~Orson Scott Card
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
March 04 2010 04:59 GMT
#2
DONT SWEAT IT

you've got the previous test + quizzes (im guessing) + homeworks to balance it out!

it'll be alright dude. its only one test!
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leejas
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States440 Posts
March 04 2010 05:00 GMT
#3
you'll do better next time! Think of it as like...bo5 haha
GrayArea
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States872 Posts
March 04 2010 05:04 GMT
#4
To recover from a midterm you performed poorly on, study harder for the final so you can bring back your grade up.
Kang Min Fighting!
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
March 04 2010 05:12 GMT
#5
Mould a voodoo doll of your proff and stick pins in it.
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
March 04 2010 05:12 GMT
#6
Just remember when you're successful, you can tell people you give your motivational speech to that you failed your networks final and STILL became a millionaire. What distinguishes you from other people won't really be how much you accomplished, but how you overcame your failures and still became successful.

Best of luck! I always mass game/LAN up with some BW and I DON'T WORK FOR THE REST OF THE DAY
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unionbank
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia666 Posts
March 04 2010 05:12 GMT
#7
I thought i was the only living creature on this planet to ever embark on a journey to create a nutella + peanut butter + jam tortilla... it seems there is many more
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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
March 04 2010 05:25 GMT
#8
Drink until you black out is a faourite of mine.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
March 04 2010 05:38 GMT
#9
Jerk off so hard it causes earthquake ... Then head to bed ..

Works for me :/
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17730 Posts
March 04 2010 05:40 GMT
#10
extra credit ^^
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jyhlol
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
243 Posts
March 04 2010 05:42 GMT
#11
I did so poorly on my microbi midterm, hoping to get a decent mark on my final to balance it out -_-
hwasin, zero, really fan
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-04 05:48:07
March 04 2010 05:46 GMT
#12
On March 04 2010 13:53 Huanir wrote:
-Complain to your friends about the test; this is especially helpful if you have friends in the class who have similar feelings.


gets pretty annoying when im being complained to

"omg i did so bad. how many points do you think i get off? what do you think the average is?"
"stfu"
The6357
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States1268 Posts
March 04 2010 05:59 GMT
#13
good final...
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flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
March 04 2010 06:01 GMT
#14
Dude, finals are where it's at. You can recover man.
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Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
March 04 2010 06:08 GMT
#15
I bombed two midterms, one last night and one this morning. Brain atrophying over Olympic break = gg
Always
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States376 Posts
March 04 2010 06:17 GMT
#16
I had a midterm from 1:00-4:00 yesterday. I stayed 'til the last minute!

I stayed up the whole night before, and couldn't sleep after the test because I kept thinking about the questions. When I woke up today, I felt totally sick lol. I think staying up killed my immune system or something. That midterm gave me a cold.

I feel your pain, but I also feel your enjoyment-- Spring Break starts on Friday, and for some reason, my school has a ridiculously long one! 5th til the 22nd =)
"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." - Linus Pauling
hipaul
Profile Joined May 2009
United States274 Posts
March 04 2010 06:19 GMT
#17
i am a fan of the drinking idea as well
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Nick_54
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2230 Posts
March 04 2010 06:37 GMT
#18
On March 04 2010 14:00 leejas wrote:
you'll do better next time! Think of it as like...bo5 haha


You just lost game 1 in a bo5, now pull a Jaedong and take it 3-1
Maero
Profile Joined December 2007
349 Posts
March 04 2010 06:39 GMT
#19
I like you, OP!

Quality post
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
March 04 2010 06:51 GMT
#20
I hope I didn't bomb my accounting midterm ._.

Good luck OP :3
TranslatorBaa!
Huanir
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States85 Posts
March 04 2010 17:53 GMT
#21
Update:

The TA graded fast! I got a 64/100, which was better than the worst-case scenarios I'd been afraid of (and definitely better than some other midterms I've taken).

My sadness is also mitigated by the fact that I got 87/89 on another class's exam.

Over Spring Break, though, I'll hopefully spend my time working on the Static Router project for that class. Since projects are worth more than exams (and I already got 10/10 on the first project), I should be able to recover. Bo5 indeed! And thus life moves on.
Lord of the Rings was the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century, period. ~Orson Scott Card
Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
March 04 2010 17:55 GMT
#22
For every point you got off the exam, make sure some form of "fag" or "gay" is used to describe the class/subject/text/teacher.
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Oracle
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada411 Posts
March 04 2010 17:56 GMT
#23
That feeling doesn't compare to getting terrible on an easy midterm which is supposed to be free marks.

Yep, I got a 70% on a Linear Algebra 1 midterm, didn't study at all, and I came out thinking I aced it.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
March 04 2010 18:02 GMT
#24
Saw your post after raping the shit out of my algorithms midterm :D

Sorry for you though . Missing out on the high of FUCK YES tests are done! Spring break! But... there's no TSL this weekend. What.... so wrong.
ZeeTemplar
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States557 Posts
March 04 2010 18:07 GMT
#25
It wont be your last midterm. Just push through it.
Jangbi storms!!!
ThatGuy
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada695 Posts
March 04 2010 19:00 GMT
#26
In the process of getting wrecked by my midterms, lol. Study Break was last week for me, and all the midterms and projects were scheduled for this week. :/
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