If you think that's stupid wait until you get to discrete math/combinatorics/P.D.Es, you'll be happy if you get a 60% on the quit.

And the quiz is like 10% of your grade.

But none of it matters because grades don't matter.

On a side note, combinatorics sucks =(

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

May 25 2011 09:00 GMT

#22

Full steam ahead I say, you've never gotten below A on a test; if you put in the effort you shouldn't get lower than A in the exam.

tofucake

Hyrule19150 Posts

May 25 2011 12:26 GMT

#23

I forgot most of the calc I learned! Also, everything you said about Engineering students supposedly being good at math is a crock...half of them play video games all day, half of them smoke weed, all of them party, and 3 of them are girls (who are usually the only ones who know what's going on anyway).

Study hard and good luck.

Craton

United States17262 Posts

May 25 2011 13:50 GMT

#24

On May 25 2011 14:03 Megaliskuu wrote:
Assuming you're a high school senior, does this exam even affect your high school GPA? I though most schools didn't count the last grading period in GPA calculation, if so don't stress it...

They get updates, since drastic swings in the last quarter wont go in your favor.

QuanticHawk

United States32083 Posts

May 25 2011 14:46 GMT

#25

it's not a stupid system. it's there to reward people who hard all year, not the ones who just cram for finals. i dont see how your decision to forgo studying makes it dumb

at any rate, that miniscule drop isnt going to impact anything for you going into college, so you're worrying over nothing

Joementum

787 Posts

May 25 2011 16:20 GMT

#26

My most hated thing of school... You do good on all exams, but one and you lose so many damn points because of that one grade -_-

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 25 2011 16:55 GMT

#27

Hah, it could be worse, when I was in HS my grading system was 94 and up was an A, so you were stuck with a B anyways. Almost a C+ (88).

So there you go.