Hey dudes and dudettes! Nice to meet you!
My name is Yuutsu. Did you know that I am the stupidest person in the world?
Let me tell you an interesting story. I had a Physics midterm today. It's worth 9% of the overall grade. There were 3 questions, worth 5 marks each.
I am a first-year student. I enrolled in the Honours Physics class. It is my understanding that the depth and difficulty of Honours Physics was to be a cut above the vanilla course.
After having attended the course for a month, I'd have to say the material was of decent difficulty. It wasn't actually all that bad compared to the difficulty I experienced in AP Physics (yet; maybe this course will become harder soon?). However, I understand that even the easiest concepts can have hellishly difficult questions associated with them.
This is the the mindset I had in my approach to studying for the midterm, that I should be prepared for very difficult questions that stretch my thinking capacity. We had already been assigned to read 200 pages out of the ~450 page textbook that we use for Physics. I looked over every single detail, made sure I understood it completely, and practiced the hardest questions I could find. I wasn't 100% confident, but figured I could scrap together an A.
Come test-time, imagine my disbelief as the midterm consisted of 3 mind-numbingly easy questions (that would probably take a 11-th grader no longer than ~15 minutes to do; we were given 60 minutes).
But guess what?! : D
Yuutsu reads one question wrong, and gets the other one wrong.
You have a 2 identical slanted tables with a ROUGH surface..... This is what I thought at the time, "Rough surface? Neat. ^.^ Duuuuuuuur........... this is easy-peazy." A millisecond later, I forget that the surface is rough.
Moving on, you have a 2 masses connected to a string on a frictionless pulley. You are told what the masses are. Calculate the acceleration of one of the 2 objects. This is what I thought at the time, "Pulley? Neat. ^.^ Duuuuuuuur........... this is easy-peazy." A millisecond later, I get the question wrong.
The last question makes me laugh so hard. The pulley thing was one of the easiest things I did in grade 11 and 12. I did questions on pulley systems that involved angular momentum for goodness' sake (in AP Physics)! The question in the midterm was about as freakin' easy as you can get. I still got it wrong.
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Anyway, first world problems. Thanks for allowing me to vent and I'll watch as this thread withers away into oblivion as it rightfully should.
My name is Yuutsu. Did you know that I am the stupidest person in the world?
Let me tell you an interesting story. I had a Physics midterm today. It's worth 9% of the overall grade. There were 3 questions, worth 5 marks each.
I am a first-year student. I enrolled in the Honours Physics class. It is my understanding that the depth and difficulty of Honours Physics was to be a cut above the vanilla course.
After having attended the course for a month, I'd have to say the material was of decent difficulty. It wasn't actually all that bad compared to the difficulty I experienced in AP Physics (yet; maybe this course will become harder soon?). However, I understand that even the easiest concepts can have hellishly difficult questions associated with them.
This is the the mindset I had in my approach to studying for the midterm, that I should be prepared for very difficult questions that stretch my thinking capacity. We had already been assigned to read 200 pages out of the ~450 page textbook that we use for Physics. I looked over every single detail, made sure I understood it completely, and practiced the hardest questions I could find. I wasn't 100% confident, but figured I could scrap together an A.
Come test-time, imagine my disbelief as the midterm consisted of 3 mind-numbingly easy questions (that would probably take a 11-th grader no longer than ~15 minutes to do; we were given 60 minutes).
But guess what?! : D
Yuutsu reads one question wrong, and gets the other one wrong.
You have a 2 identical slanted tables with a ROUGH surface..... This is what I thought at the time, "Rough surface? Neat. ^.^ Duuuuuuuur........... this is easy-peazy." A millisecond later, I forget that the surface is rough.
Moving on, you have a 2 masses connected to a string on a frictionless pulley. You are told what the masses are. Calculate the acceleration of one of the 2 objects. This is what I thought at the time, "Pulley? Neat. ^.^ Duuuuuuuur........... this is easy-peazy." A millisecond later, I get the question wrong.
The last question makes me laugh so hard. The pulley thing was one of the easiest things I did in grade 11 and 12. I did questions on pulley systems that involved angular momentum for goodness' sake (in AP Physics)! The question in the midterm was about as freakin' easy as you can get. I still got it wrong.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Anyway, first world problems. Thanks for allowing me to vent and I'll watch as this thread withers away into oblivion as it rightfully should.