I just came to the full realisation...

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Posted by astroboy on Nov-16-2003 11:00:

I just came to the full realisation...

...that I have never despised anything quite so passionately as exams!!

Thank you ... I feel better now.

Posted by Fast Turtle on Nov-16-2003 11:04:

I feel you. *zero hours of sleep in the past few days*

Posted by A.J. on Nov-17-2003 04:44:

Hmm i had exams for Sydney Universoty last week.

Here is how my sleeping pattern went:
Sunday night: 0 hours
Monday night: 4 hours
Tuesday night: 7 hours
Wednesday night: 3 1/2 hours
Thursday night: 3 hours
Friday night: FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Total sleep = 17.5 hours
Average sleep/night = 3.5 hours

Plus i went though about half a jar of insatnt coffee.

I think i must of had about 100 cups of coffee!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Orbax on Nov-17-2003 04:47:

its probably cuz you spell realization with an "s" instead of a "z"

it is still recognized as the same word, but much less so. Akin to the grey/gray debate.

Posted by whiskers on Nov-17-2003 04:51:

finals, you mean?

you guys are gonna hate me, but....

BEFORE I CAME TO COLLEGE I WISH I HAD KNOWN...
* That if you were smart in high school, so what?

* That you can know everything and fail a test.
* That you can know nothing and ace a test.

exam studying?

i spend at most 40 minutes quickly going over stuff and i never got below a B........

maybe until this coming week, got two hardass tests coming my way.

oh well. must post more.

Posted by NY1004 on Nov-17-2003 06:59:

Posted by Nadi on Nov-17-2003 07:03:

I think i came to that realization in the second week of first grade when we had our first spelling test

Posted by Yoepus on Nov-17-2003 07:07:

Re: I just came to the full realisation...

quote:
Originally posted by astroboy
[color=limegreen]...that I have never despised anything quite so passionately as exams!!

hehe I think someone just got an F

Posted by astroboy on Nov-17-2003 12:35:

Re: Re: I just came to the full realisation...

quote:
Originally posted by Yoepus
hehe I think someone just got an F

There's a real possibility of getting a few fails this semester I'm afraid.

True - about your "smartness" at school having nothing to do with how well you do in exams at uni. In Australia, your uni fees are subsidised by the government, and you only have to pay part of them back when you finish uni and get a job (your liability is deducted from your salary). So here Uni course entrance is based purely on academic merit, and the more popular the course/university you want to get into the higher your marks have to be to get in. Unfortunately I decided I wanted to do one of the most sought after degrees in the most prestigious uni in my state. I got in, because I always found school fairly easy and somehow managed to get reasonable marks with minimal effort. However now that i am in my course I am surrounded by people who are at least as smart as me (mostly smarter) or just work damn hard... so now I am stuck at the bottom of the cohort, unless I change my work ethic dramatically

I don't think what whiskers said about exams is true... at least not in my faculty. If you've gone to lectures, done your tutes and generally know your shit then you're sweet when exam time comes around. Unfortunately for me that feeling of knowing all I need to know has become very unfamiliar since I finished school.

Posted by Boomer187 on Nov-17-2003 17:17:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers

BEFORE I CAME TO COLLEGE I WISH I HAD KNOWN...
* That if you were smart in high school, so what?
* That you can know everything and fail a test.
* That you can know nothing and ace a test.

That is so brutally true that I am laughing histarically. Mainly because I did not show that I was "smart" in high school (motivation) and that I can fail an exam yet know the material better than the professor.

I am reminded of a certain stats test I took last week. When I ace all of the application parts yet struggled through the definitions, and get marked low, something wrong there. Yeah the other students are good at rote memorization, I would rather know how to do a technique. Of course my course grade will never reflect my knowledge, then again, course grades don't account for after test learning either which is one major downfall.

Posted by butterfly on Nov-17-2003 17:19:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
finals, you mean?

you guys are gonna hate me, but....

BEFORE I CAME TO COLLEGE I WISH I HAD KNOWN...
* That if you were smart in high school, so what?

* That you can know everything and fail a test.
* That you can know nothing and ace a test.

exam studying?

i spend at most 40 minutes quickly going over stuff and i never got below a B........

maybe until this coming week, got two hardass tests coming my way.

oh well. must post more.

right on... add to that never breaking open the binding of a textbook and you just described my college life.

Posted by squirrelly on Nov-17-2003 17:22:

quote:
Originally posted by butterfly
right on... add to that never breaking open the binding of a textbook and you just described my college life.

I spent six days straight studying... at least 83% of the hours I was awake was spent studying... and I got a flippin 68%! I could shoot myself in the foot right now! Stupid Anthropology!

Posted by Boomer187 on Nov-17-2003 17:25:

quote:
Originally posted by anuneventrade
Stupid Anthropology!

mmm anthropolgy. I think every single question started out with, in general...

I got a question wrong about something to do with american culture because it was a distorted generalization.....aaahh that is why I love social sciences.