For my college posters: what was your hardest final ever?

[NBAplayoffs2001]

For me, it was my Thermodynamics final in my sophomore year. Somehow got a pretty good grade in the class (way higher than I expected). On the final, there were about 12 pages and I honestly flipped through it the first time and felt like crying :cry:. Some kid behind me was a graduating senior and kept asking if he could skip the final since he was a senior (literally kept asking every 30 mins). I was only able to answer 2 pages and I made up a ton of stuff up (my teacher went through my exam when I handed it in and asked me my average before this test lol... after I told him, he was like oh good and said have a good break) for the rest. My best friend somehow knew how to do about 9 pages out of 12. Comparing my answers with him after the final was so depressing. Based on the correct answers, I got like a 30%. Somehow got a B in this class lol :lol

[DukeDelonte13]

For me, it was my Thermodynamics final in my sophomore year. Somehow got a pretty good grade in the class (way higher than I expected). On the final, there were about 12 pages and I honestly flipped through it the first time and felt like crying :cry:. Some kid behind me was a graduating senior and kept asking if he could skip the final since he was a senior (literally kept asking every 30 mins). I was only able to answer 2 pages and I made up a ton of stuff up (my teacher went through my exam when I handed it in and asked me my average before this test lol... after I told him, he was like oh good and said have a good break) for the rest. My best friend somehow knew how to do about 9 pages out of 12. Comparing my answers with him after the final was so depressing. Based on the correct answers, I got like a 30%. Somehow got a B in this class lol :lol


typical engineering :oldlol:

I remember getting a 23% on a physics II final that curved out to a B.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

typical engineering :oldlol:

I remember getting a 23% on a physics II final that curved out to a B.

Lol straight up, I saw the final grade and literally went "what the f***." When I handed it in my professor was like depressed, he was drinking his water and shaking his head while I was smiling stupidly at him :D. Either way, he told me before I left the test that he said based on the finals he has already looked at, mine wasn't that bad. Was a huge relief because I knew he curved to a mid B and I had a very low B+ going into the final.

[christian1923]

I took a health class and didn't realize half the class was actually am active lifestyle class called dance until I walked into class :coleman: well for the final we had to remember a 2 minute dance routine and perform it infront of everyone. Never been so nervous in my life

[nathanjizzle]

heat transfer. i just didnt care but got a C.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I took a health class and didn't realize half the class was actually am active lifestyle class called dance until I walked into class :coleman: well for the final we had to remember a 2 minute dance routine and perform it infront of everyone. Never been so nervous in my life

Lol, I feel you. Our dance classes at our university are kind of awkward (never took one). They have clear glass so anyone can watch you perform and they have classes and exams in a heavy traffic area during the day. I personally would get too nervous performing while random strangers walked by... odd because my brother and father were dancers for dance teams that performed in front of thousands when they were in university.

[shaq2000]

Linear algebra (not intro)

All other areas of math came pretty easily, although I wasn't a math major and never took stuff like real and complex analysis. Calculus, DE, discrete, probability courses were all fine. But there was something about linear algebra that just didn't click with me. I studied enough to walk away with an A, barely, but I didn't feel like I understood the why behind a lot of it. Just the how.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

One crappy thing that I noticed as a senior is that my GPA is surprisingly not as great as I hoped it to be. It's not horrible nor is it great but I'm upset of hearing people I know who were average in high school who had 3.8+s in college and are getting into insane grad schools or very solid job offers. I'm not upset at them but myself. I wish I could redo university for the grades and I would have transferred freshman year when I contemplated doing so (there was a state school back in my home state that was highly ranked and I got into there out of high school but disregarded it for some reason beyond my understanding lol). Didn't really hit me how much I disliked my university's curriculum and it's fast paced nature until the end of my sophomore year.

[nathanjizzle]

One crappy thing that I noticed as a senior is that my GPA is surprisingly not as great as I hoped it to be. It's not horrible nor is it great but I'm upset of hearing people I know who were average in high school who had 3.8+s in college and are not getting into insane grad schools or very solid job offers. I'm not upset at them but myself. I wish I could redo university for the grades and I would have transferred freshman year when I contemplated doing so. Didn't really hit me how much I disliked my university's curriculum and it's fast paced nature until the end of my sophomore year.
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[NBAplayoffs2001]

:biggums:

oops mistake I meant they were getting in.

[Le Shaqtus]

College Algebra, which is pretty pathetic :oldlol:

[Myth]

I struggled with some chemistry tests back in the day. The most stressful test I took though was the Clinical Competency Exam for Psychology. Multi-hour test and if you omit any of about 100 points you need to make in the essay format test, you fail. If you fail 3 times, you are done. Luckily, I passed it the first try, but I had probably studied about 40 hours for it.

[Milbuck]

I've definitely taken harder classes/subjects overall, but my Organic chem final sophomore year was ****ing brutal. Very poorly taught class, over a third of the exam was about material neither the professor nor the textbook covered, and there was roughly 3-4 hours of work on it but you were only given 2 hours to finish it. I got a 41% on it, the average was 32%.

The worst part is that going back now I could probably ace it..but at the time it was the toughest exam I had ever taken.

[DeuceWallaces]

Outside of candidacy/juries/comps I'd say Plant Physiology while I was working on my Masters.

[tpols]

Didn't take any of the typical hard classes like orgo or engineering.. as I was business supply chain and economics.

Ops management was tough.. 3 hrs 5 word problems with integer programming having to map a bunch of shit out with curveball thrown at us (things we were never specifically taught.. had to figure out) nobody finished early in that class.

My econometrics teacher also believed it was a waste of a test if you knew everything so averages up be 40 something even with open book notes everything

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I've definitely taken harder classes/subjects overall, but my Organic chem final sophomore year was ****ing brutal. Very poorly taught class, over a third of the exam was about material neither the professor nor the textbook covered, and there was roughly 3-4 hours of work on it but you were only given 2 hours to finish it. I got a 41% on it, the average was 32%.

The worst part is that going back now I could probably ace it..but at the time it was the toughest exam I had ever taken.

I had one of the funniest experiences with my orgo 1 final. I felt like a boss through the first 9 pages :rockon:, I turned to the last page and we were told to draw a mechanism that I've never heard of and it was 20% of our grade (our grading scale was 73-75 was usually an A- and 80 was always an A no matter what, 60-65 was like a B-, etc). I knew I got about 70% of the first 80% right. The last mechanism I found out later I got like only 4 points out of 20. Got an A- on the final, I walked out feeling I just got trolled.

:biggums:

I had two finals that day. I had a better chance at getting in the A range for orgo so I studied for that final for 40 hours straight and completely ignored my other final. Ended up getting a 77% on my other science final. I admit to have guessed on the whole thing. To this day, I don't know how this happened LOL. Oh then a few days later I handed in my physics final knowing I got a 70% (which got me an A no matter what). I handed it to my professor and he said this "aye, at last someone whose handed me the exam who may have passed pre-curve"

[rufuspaul]

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[oarabbus]

Most difficult finals?

-Differential Equations
-Linear Algebra
-Organic Chemistry (Quarters II and III)
-Fluid Dynamics/Mass Transfer (this one was BRUTAL)
-Thermodynamics of Materials and Phases

[ballup]

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Why isn't there a tipsy choice?!

[shlver]

Immunobiology

Needed to memorize a week in advance for every midterm. Wasn't necessarily hard, but a lot of work.

[Rockets(T-mac)]

Fluid Mechanics was pretty tough. The last question was literally a page long of just the question and diagrams and by the time I finished reading it through the first time, I was like....:biggums:. I didn't even know where to start. I wrote so much bullshit for that question lol. The rest of the exam was good though so my mark was fine.

Heat transfer 1 was also a really hard exam. There was just so many different cases and types of questions that it was hard to not confuse them.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Most difficult finals?

-Differential Equations
-Linear Algebra
-Organic Chemistry (Quarters II and III)
-Fluid Dynamics/Mass Transfer (this one was BRUTAL)
-Thermodynamics of Materials and Phases

I've heard from friends at Penn State that this class was universally agreed to be one of the hardest engineering classes at the school.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Didn't take any of the typical hard classes like orgo or engineering.. as I was business supply chain and economics.

Ops management was tough.. 3 hrs 5 word problems with integer programming having to map a bunch of shit out with curveball thrown at us (things we were never specifically taught.. had to figure out) nobody finished early in that class.

My econometrics teacher also believed it was a waste of a test if you knew everything so averages up be 40 something even with open book notes everything

Yeah my brother was a finance and economics double major at a top school. He said in one of his classes the average for the final was literally a 23% despite being open book lol. He got like a 40% and that was an A :lol

[T_L_P]

UK uni student: all of my Land Law exams.

Land Law II this year :biggums:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

UK uni student: all of my Land Law exams.

Land Law II this year :biggums:

How does univ work in the UK. I have a friend there who claims she wants to go to univ soon yet she's 20 (UK citizen currently lives in Manchester). Really confused about how it works.

[T_L_P]

How does univ work in the UK. I have a friend there who claims she wants to go to univ soon yet she's 20 (UK citizen currently lives in Manchester). Really confused about how it works.

Based on the responses in this thread I can tell you it's quite different to college in America

Over here you pretty much solely study one subject (Law, Mathematics, Biomedical Science etc), generally for three years. You do a set of exams/essays in January and May/June each year. Then in the third or final year you do a dissertation (thesis).

Simple as that really.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Based on the responses in this thread I can tell you it's quite different to college in America

Over here you pretty much solely study one subject (Law, Mathematics, Biomedical Science etc), generally for three years. You do a set of exams/essays in January and May/June each year. Then in the third or final year you do a dissertation (thesis).

Simple as that really.

Yeah which I wish this was how the school system was here. For example to become a doctor, it takes 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of medical school.

I know of people and relatives who became doctors in the UK/India and only had to spend 5 years after high school.

In America, it's all business and colleges just try to pry as much cash as they can from you by requiring you to take a lot more classes than probably needed (ie electives and freshman requirements like english).

[ballup]

I can't wait to drive on bridges that engineers that scored 20% on their finals helped design!
Don't worry. You are in good hands. I scored 30% on my finals!
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[NBAplayoffs2001]

I have a friend in some sort of engineering, and he said the average score of his tests were bumped up by 30% because the average grade was so low. It was One of his math classes, but I dont remember which.

30% only? That's child's play. I had like a 50 in thermo and got a 86% with the curve :cheers:. Literally got only 1 out of 33 questions right on the first test and somehow got a C+ on it lol :lol

[aj1987]

Yeah which I wish this was how the school system was here. For example to become a doctor, it takes 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of medical school.

I know of people and relatives who became doctors in the UK/India and only had to spend 5 years after high school.

In America, it's all business and colleges just try to pry as much cash as they can from you by requiring you to take a lot more classes than probably needed (ie electives and freshman requirements like english).
You don't get a doctorate after 5 years. You get an Bachelor of Med, Bachelor of Surgery degree. You'll have to go to grad school for another 3 years. Pretty much the same as the US, since both take ~8 years to become a Doctor. You can practice in India after 5 years, but most hospitals won't take you and you won't make much money.

The hardest exams? VLSI and Electromagnetic Theory.

[BigBoss]

My intro to religion final because my TA was super sexy and I kept checking her out during the final :banghead: True story.

[GimmeThat]

I don't see how it's possible counting the amount of exams/finals in which I walked out having absolutely no clue how well I did.


the hardest?


your lowest score on an exam doesn't make it the hardest exam

[ace23]

Literally got only 1 out of 33 questions right on the first test and somehow got a C+ on it lol :lol
:biggums:

[bballer]

Asian History (srs)

i had no idea wit da fun was going on.

We were supposed to list the leaders of the Chinese Dynasties in chronological order and there was no word bank. Pretty sure I got every one of them wrong.

Also blank map of Asia and we had to fill in states AND Capitols.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I don't see how it's possible counting the amount of exams/finals in which I walked out having absolutely no clue how well I did.


the hardest?


your lowest score on an exam doesn't make it the hardest exam

True to this day I still don't know how I did numerically on my last biochem midterm and the final. I was happy with my final grade. I only knew like 45% of my grade when my final average was uploaded

Rumor has it that our final may have been curved. I thought it was a little tough but I do remember seeing a few girls cry hysterically after it.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

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Lol I got loads of partial credit because I messed up like part A and the rest was based on the wrong assumption so if the question was 4 parts, the other 3 parts are technically right on the wrong assumption. I overexaggerated, it was like 4 multiple choice questions and 3 questions with 15 parts all together. With partial credit and all, I still got in the mid 50s without the curve and a 79% with the curve, class average was low 60s.

[DCL]

i remember taking a bullshit electives course for pass/no pass in my senior year. by that time, school was almost over for me. already had a job lined up. that class was supposedly one of the easiest/dumbest courses in school. but graduation was months away and i was already stupidly in party mode. my ass never went to class and i barely read anything. i think i only half-ass studied from somebody else's shitty notes. then i took the final, didn't know jack shit, and ended up not passing the course. they denied me graduation, and i had to go to the professor and plea and all that shit. ended up writing a 10-page paper that i probably plagiarized to get the pass to get my degree. moral of the story - don't slack off until you're fully sure it's ok to. :lol