Just from a topic i was talking about with a friend, and then curious to hear some stories.

What is the most demoralizing test you have ever taken?


I'd have to say it was a tossup for me, from either

a) the 1st time I took fluid mechanics (43 on the final and 2 flat tires on the way home)

or

b) control systems (1st question was 33 points and i''d never seen the topic... -30 on the 1st question!)

4/7/2008 9:44:56 AM

qtip in the p33n

4/7/2008 9:45:50 AM

guess i had to expect std test, paternity test, colorblind test, etc.

4/7/2008 9:47:25 AM

Homosexuality test

4/7/2008 9:49:08 AM

definitely a BCH 451 test i took a few weeks ago.

4/7/2008 9:49:26 AM

can't say I've ever had a test like that

4/7/2008 9:53:45 AM

the final where i was sick and puked in the middle of the test time, had never seen ~50% of the material, and spilled OJ on the test immedately after getting it.

popped that c-wall with a point to spare tho

4/7/2008 9:53:58 AM

^ those are the best
at least the c wall part

4/7/2008 9:55:09 AM

My History of Film test that I didn't have time to study for.

j/k

Never had a difficult class because I'm not in any difficult majors and when I was, I just did the intro classes.

4/7/2008 10:22:07 AM

EIT

just because it's soooo loooooonnng

4/7/2008 10:22:55 AM

oh fuck

TT 321, first test


I had nooooooooooooooooooooooooo idea there was gonna be THAT much detail on the test! I'd had the previous class in the series with the same prof, and as long as you got the math part, you were good to go on the tests. I expected the same in this class.

I got a 17 :-\

4/7/2008 10:25:06 AM

and forwhatever it's worth


if you've ever taken the nanoelectronics ece492m when misra was teaching it

there'd be ~9 people in the class, and she'd tell you

3 of you will make an a

3 of you will make a b

3 of you will make a c

if you stick around for the semester.

then the first test, the "A" range was like 35%-100% correct
"B" range - 20%-35%
"C" range - <20%


it was the only class ive ever busted my ass for, and been extatic when getting like a 40 on a test.

lol

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 10:28 AM. Reason : m not n]

4/7/2008 10:25:12 AM

most of the exams i've taken in pharm school.

4/7/2008 10:56:10 AM

std

4/7/2008 10:57:21 AM

prostate exams are prolly right up there

4/7/2008 11:03:26 AM

SAT wore my ass out, tedious more or less tho.

4/7/2008 11:10:30 AM

Accounting

4/7/2008 11:11:18 AM

Probably when I was "beat" into The Crips

4/7/2008 11:11:30 AM

F freakin E

4/7/2008 11:13:14 AM

Quote :

"prostate exams are prolly right up there"

4/7/2008 11:22:15 AM

body fat

4/7/2008 11:49:01 AM

sobriety

4/7/2008 11:49:45 AM

LSAT, by far. Most mentally taxing exam I had ever taken.

4/7/2008 11:50:00 AM

one of my Thermo II tests

4/7/2008 11:51:00 AM

got a 27 the first organic test i took

Quote :

"definitely a BCH 451 test i took a few weeks ago."

im takin this over the summer, i know its gona be bad, very nervious

4/7/2008 11:51:22 AM

first csc574 test. thought i did well.. but i didn't.

4/7/2008 12:01:56 PM

BCH 451 isnt that hard it's just amazingly fucking tedious. Memorize all the shit they tell youto memorize and you'll get A's on all the tests.

4/7/2008 12:12:33 PM

Linear Algebra Final Exam,

I got a freaking 14.

Luckily, it was the most "curved" class I ever had.

4/7/2008 12:14:45 PM

perhaps it's the fact that when i took the fe it had no real consequence one way or another


but i dont get the hype.

4/7/2008 12:17:35 PM

4/7/2008 1:04:05 PM

MA 412 and MA 416 both have had me coming home with the need to lie down.

4/7/2008 1:08:50 PM

Quote :

"control systems (1st question was 33 points and i''d never seen the topic... -30 on the 1st question!)"

more like +3 on the 1st question, amirite?

4/7/2008 1:40:10 PM

either way, it hurt

4/7/2008 1:49:26 PM

one time i tried to pull an all nighter and crashed at like 11am...class was from like 1:15-2:30....well i wake up at 2 and am like oh fuck but i studied my ass off so i dont want to just not take it...so i get to there at like 2:10 and the teacher is like good luck...i finish like right around 2:30(might have been 2:32!!1) and shes like how did u do...it was like 50 questions so i was just like going with first instinct and not thinking twice...ended up getting an 80 which all things considered i felt that was good...bus 340

4/7/2008 1:53:09 PM

that's pretty fucking awesome

I think my worst was when I forgot my calculator to a statistics exam.. it was easy as fuck but he was the type to see if you had the right answer and if so he gave you full credit and moved on.. since I had no final answers he went through each of mine and counted off for any and everything I did wrong

I believe I failed that one

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/7/2008 1:54:53 PM

Last exam of the first semester of law school. Felt pretty good about the previous three, and the last was an open book, 30 (or 40) multiple choice question exam.

I pretty much didn't study for it at all, because they gave us 5 HOURS to take 40 multiple choice questions...and you could bring in anything to help you with the exception of using the internet.

It took me 4:45minutes to finish that exam and I made a C- with a curve. I MIGHT have gotten 15 questions right.

Civil Procedure made me its bitch.

4/7/2008 1:57:10 PM

controls midterm, silverberg - ripped me a nice 53 out, but I think the TA just felt sorry for us.

4/7/2008 3:08:17 PM

Quote :

"one time i tried to pull an all nighter and crashed at like 11am...class was from like 1:15-2:30....well i wake up at 2 and am like oh fuck but i studied my ass off so i dont want to just not take it...so i get to there at like 2:10 and the teacher is like good luck...i finish like right around 2:30(might have been 2:32!!1) and shes like how did u do...it was like 50 questions so i was just like going with first instinct and not thinking twice...ended up getting an 80 which all things considered i felt that was good...bus 340"

4/7/2008 3:14:16 PM

like, whats your point?

4/7/2008 3:15:46 PM

drug test

4/7/2008 3:16:13 PM

i really think the LSAT wins

fuck that test

i'd rather take the GRE five times than take that damn thing again

4/7/2008 3:26:52 PM

any and every one of them

no, kiddin, umm.....let me think. The only exams i've failed have been spanish ones. But even then, it wasn't demoralizing because I just don't give a flying fuck about spanish. My final grades are more demoralizing than any one grade because sometimes I feel like I bust my ass in a class, then i'll end up with a B- or a C+ or something and im just like fuck it. Then i catch shit from my parents and its just blah blah fuck

4/7/2008 3:27:05 PM

chemistry

4/7/2008 4:39:57 PM

this applied microeconomics final that i took in grad school. it was a 6 hour all writing test and i finished about 2min before the time limit.

but i wouldnt call it demoralizing, just absolutely draining. and a bit rediculous for an applied micro class

4/7/2008 4:47:35 PM

Quote :

"I think my worst was when I forgot my calculator to a statistics exam"

one time me and smileyncsu were in the same stats class and i forgot what day our test was...came in and grabbed a formula sheet like a sec before i took it...i think i got like a 75 on it bus 350

4/7/2008 4:58:32 PM

AP physics, 3-4 hours of shit that we hadnt been taught.

4/7/2008 5:02:04 PM