(POLL) exam predictions

[gonnabehappy]

I have bio and chem exams next week.

BIO: I have been making anki cards for bio and got the 2nd highest score on exam last time. I am a bio exam demon. There’s like 500 kids in the bio lectures btw.

CHEM: I’m fucked. I have skipped half the lectures. I have used AI on half the homework. I need about 10 more hours to master the material. Planning to devote saturday to learning and sunday to mastery. 5 hours each day. Will look over every homework problem, every practice test problem, and every etextbook problem. I will do them all. Around 800? kids in this class. Exam is out of 20 no curve & I got a 95 last exam.

Will post bio exam distributions for proof if I get the highest score.

Rep the post if u wanna be tagged when scores come out.

 

[gonnabehappy]

maybe I will give out prizes to those who guess correctly

 

[gonnabehappy]

@Jason Voorhees @59H390 shoot I gotta start tagging high IQ ppl

 

[Jason Voorhees]

What kind of exam is this? Like a standardized tests of some sort

 

[bottleofwater]

dont give a fuck mate

 

[LTNUser]

How did you get so good at Bio?
Do you remember things very fast naturally or you had to work really hard to remember everything?

 

[gonnabehappy]

How did you get so good at Bio?
Do you remember things very fast naturally or you had to work really hard to remember everything?

I memorize everything that could be on the test in anki with spaced repetition, it reduces cortisol and decreases studying load / effort.

 

[gonnabehappy]

What kind of exam is this? Like a standardized tests of some sort

midterm

 

[Gaygymmaxx]

I have bio and chem exams next week.

BIO: I have been making anki cards for bio and got the 2nd highest score on exam last time. I am a bio exam demon. There’s like 500 kids in the bio lectures btw.

CHEM: I’m fucked. I have skipped half the lectures. I have used AI on half the homework. I need about 10 more hours to master the material. Planning to devote saturday to learning and sunday to mastery. 5 hours each day. Will look over every homework problem, every practice test problem, and every etextbook problem. I will do them all. Around 800? kids in this class. Exam is out of 20 no curve & I got a 95 last exam.

Will post bio exam distributions for proof if I get the highest score.

Rep the post if u wanna be tagged when scores come out.

How do you know you got top of the class

What kind of class is this? I never get results like that at my uni it's just a /100 grade

 

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What concepts in chem are you taking

 

[gonnabehappy]

How do you know you got top of the class

What kind of class is this? I never get results like that at my uni it's just a /100 grade

They put the distribution on the class slides, like a bar graph or scattergram or whatever. So if avg bio exam grade was a 70, there’s not many people scoring 95s, and you can reason based on the bars or dots whether you got the highest score or 2nd highest score, anything beyond that is speculation because scores typically start overlapping.

They js show a graph and you can tell.

 

[dex0bp]

Chem is impossible for me brah

Luckily the main subjects in my grade/country are history and English

 

[gonnabehappy]

What concepts in chem are you taking

chem 1

 

[Gaygymmaxx]

Chem is impossible for me brah

Luckily the main subjects in my grade/country are history and English

History is harder than most main subjects because it relies less on IQ imo, all memory and studying

 

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chem 1

Should be easy, youre taking atomic spectrum and mass number ajd radius and how to find empirical formula etc?

Very easy, should take 2 days or three to completely grasp, if not one day

 

[Jason Voorhees]

midterm

Chil man. You don't have to sweat this much over mid terms. What are you chemistry topics? 5 hours everyday seems overkill to me but what do I know. Everyone studies in their own way

 

[dex0bp]

History is harder than most main subjects because it relies less on IQ imo, all memory and studying

History is all about active recall and just trying to recall dates, names, places, empires, etc during ur day till it sticks in ur head

 

[Hide]

History is harder than most main subjects because it relies less on IQ imo, all memory and studying

History is intuitive imo, maybe bc I like history but just memorise some boring details and know the events and timeliness and boom

 

[gonnabehappy]

Should be easy, youre taking atomic spectrum and mass number ajd radius and how to find empirical formula etc?

Very easy, should take 2 days or three to completely grasp, if not one day

Yeah I agree which is why I justified putting it off until last minute, unlike bio where there is too much info to memorize in one day.

 

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Yeah I agree which is why I justified putting it off until last minute, unlike bio where there is too much info to memorize in one day.

Imo for chem legit just memorise the patterns and ideas and solve type of questions

I got chem midterm on the bag bc I did that, im taking ap chem

 

[Jason Voorhees]

How do you know you got top of the class

What kind of class is this? I never get results like that at my uni it's just a /100 grade

My school had relative grading. The grades were given relative to the top scorer. Depending on the top scorer. 2-3 of the people after him got S grade The rest were distributed across A, B, C, D, and E grades depending on how close their scores were to the top. Made every test extremely brutal even a small difference in marks could drastically affect your grade especially if the topper had scored exceptionally high.

 

[gonnabehappy]

Chil man. You don't have to sweat this much over mid terms. What are you chemistry topics? 5 hours everyday seems overkill to me but what do I know. Everyone studies in their own way

I’m a sweat it’s my nature.

But also I haven’t gone to half the chem lectures and I’ve used AI / answer keys on half the homeworks, so I would say spending 10 hours before the exam is justified even if it is just chem.

 

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My school had relative grading. The grades were given relative to the top scorer. Depending on the top scorer. 2-3 of the people after him got S grade The rest were distributed across A, B, C, D, and E grades depending on how close their scores were to the top. Made every test extremely brutal even a small difference in marks could drastically affect your grade especially if the topper had scored exceptionally high.

Damn ours is standardised out of 100. If everyone failed, everyone failed.

 

[gonnabehappy]

My school had relative grading. The grades were given relative to the top scorer. Depending on the top scorer. 2-3 of the people after him got S grade The rest were distributed across A, B, C, D, and E grades depending on how close their scores were to the top. Made every test extremely brutal even a small difference in marks could drastically affect your grade especially if the topper had scored exceptionally high.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Only indians could justify a system like that in the 21st century.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

History isn't just memorizing. At the university level, most history questions are analytical or interpretative not simple recall like asked to evaluate sources, compare perspectives, or argue how and why something happened. Biology is mostly memorization tho. factual information, terminology, and processes you just have to know cold.

History is harder than most main subjects because it relies less on IQ imo, all memory and studying

 

[Jason Voorhees]

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Only indians could justify a system like that in the 21st century.

Yea. Relative grading is very brutal. Certain ivy league tier schools have it like Stanford they have it for their hyper competitive courses that have too many students to reduce grading inflation

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Damn ours is standardised out of 100. If everyone failed, everyone failed.

There was minimum marks set for each course. Like everyone had to get atleast 40 in the final test and 50 marks aggregate, after that there was relative grading based on the curve. I don't like this grading either. Just unnecessary competition and stress

 

[gonnabehappy]

Yea. Relative grading is very brutal. Certain ivy leagues like Stanford have it for their hyper competitive courses that have too many students to reduce grading inflation

Maybe you could justify it in a course like that, but tbh if I was a course coordinator I’d just write a test where you would need complete mastery of the material to get a 100, near complete mastery for a 95, decent mastery for a 90, etc and then the grades should fill out themselves.

Everyone would be graded based on exam score straight up. It is so pointless to make 10th guy get a B or whatever when he may have had near complete mastery of the material. I would be happy if everyone mastered the material and got a 100, but that will never be the case.