Final Exams!

Ozrat

Ozrat

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Bah, the final exams are upon me already. I'm down to two more before I'm finally done this year. Here's a sample...

English 1B03- "Visual Culture" Bird shit course. Honestly, I did like 25% of the required reading and I think I aced the exam.

Engineering 1C04- "Engineering Communications and Design." Had 10 questions on it with a 3 hour limit. I did the first two questions, looked at the clock and realized that half the time was up already! Sad part was that these were the first things we learned in the class! Luckily, it was supposed to be like that. I did the rest in one hour. Damn prof put two trick questions on it... Luckily I caught them. Think I aced this one as well.

Math 1NN3- "Calculus II for Engineering." Need I say more? Bah bah bah. Spent 12 hours on this today, and I'm nowhere near where I want to be. I'm tired, so I may be rambling...

Anthropology 1B03- "Archaelogy." I thougt this would be another bird course, but I was wrong. Sucks the living heck out of me! This class makes me want to go back and enjoy Math 1NN3...

So anyways, I'd be interested to hear what everybody else is struggling though.
 
Well, I'm looking forward to college now. :?

My final exams aren't until June, but if anyone cares, here's what sophomore classes I'm taking:

Spanish 2 - Easy as hell. Teacher is one of those people who wants all the kids to pass regardless of knowledge level.

Earth Science - A lot of my friends have trouble with this class, but I think it's a cakewalk.

AP US History & Gov't - This is a college-level course (at least that's what Mr. Stanley told us), and this is friggin' hard. I actually read the book in order to prepare for tests, and half the questions I barely can take a good guess at. Luckily this year I don't have to take the AP Exam (I took Accelerated Global for one semester and this for the second), but still, this class is...ugh...

Music - Have to learn to play "American Pie" on guitar. Haven't started yet, so don't know how that will go.

English 10 - The class is easy, but the teacher makes it hard, with reading/grammar skills/homework/etc. checks about every other day and just basically being an ass.

Math 3B - I was doing really good in this class until we reached the tool of the devil itself: Trigonometry. As long as I can avoid as many Trig identities and triangle trig questions as possible, I'll do alright on the final.

Religion - Figuring how we haven't done anything in this class all year, it's going to be difficult for the teacher to make up a final exam for it.
 
The Dutch "Central Exams" are always around the same date for every type of High School in the Netherlands, May the 15th.

I already finished 7 courses (French reading, German reading, History (basic), Social Studies, Philosofy, General Sciences, Roman/Greek History and Biology (basic)...

I have central exams in 8 other classes, and those are Science (complete), Chemistry (complete), Maths (advanced and complete), Biology (complete), Hellenic Greek, History (complete), English and Dutch.

None of these subjects are easy, except English, which is a cakewalk. Science and Advanced Mathemathics are insanely difficult and Biology and Chemistry are hardly any fun. Don't get me started on Hellenic Greek...At least I don't have Latin.

Note: In the Netherlands, you can choose between doing a subject completely (denoted here as "Science 1,2") or incompletely (denoted as "Science1") and maths as basic (A) or advanced (B).
 
Might I ask what kind of school you're on Kharn?

I'm having my last exams (hopefully) half June.
I have two courses which I still need to pass.
 
MidSizedJesusMordino said:
the tool of the devil itself: Trigonometry. As long as I can avoid as many Trig identities and triangle trig questions as possible, I'll do alright on the final.
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Mmmm, trigonometry! I remember doing this back in 11th grade. During 4th quarter of that year I hated math sooo much because of the teacher even though I was excellent at it. We had daily assignments that was always a new section of the book with at least 30 questions that were due, that's right, every day! For some odd reason I decided that it wasn't worth my time to do the assignments on time, so I handed every single one exactly 1 day late for a 10% penalty. End result for the quarter was a 90% because I was so dang good at it, and no I didn't get the answers from other people. I could have had a 100%, so I think the teacher realized that I did that just to spite her. The ACT test comes along, and I get a 99 percentile out of the nation on trig! Then comes along Calculus for Engineering and I couldn't make heads or tails of it for a while for some odd reason. Now I can do most of it, but don't ask me for the derivatives of inverse trigonometry functions, as that's not my forte.
Hey, maybe you can quiz your teacher with this:
What are the derivatives of sin(x)?
1st derivative: cos(x)
2nd derivative: -sin(x)
3rd: -cos(x)
4th: sin(x)
Of course it get waaay more complicated if the x in sin(x) is different, but I won't hurt your heads with the details. And don't ask me what a derivative is either!
 
Jacen said:
Might I ask what kind of school you're on Kharn?

I'm having my last exams (hopefully) half June.
I have two courses which I still need to pass.
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Gymnasium.

That's right, top-o'-the-world, baby.

To be more specific, the Marnix Gymnasium in Rotterdam.

Bloody death-trap, that school.
 
Ah, all this talk about exams make me all misty eyed and yearning to get back to college this fall. Good luck guys!
 
Exams

Wow it's been almost 8 years since i got out of school with an almost completed physical therapy degree and a pregnant wife.

For all that my finals seemed hard at the time (especially pathophysiology, neurology and gerontology), i now see that these were the easy part of life.

Good luck Kids! blablabla stay in school blablabla! because blablabla and blablabla or else blablabla. :)
 
I've got my final A-levels june/july then I holiday till october.
Then I'm off to uni to hopefully get a degreee in engineering (and definitely one in beer drinking!!).

I totally agree that trig is the work of satan. I had the (DIS)pleasure of having to prove that 1/(tan0 + cot0) = sin0cos0
(had to use 0 couldn't get theta) for my mock exam. fun huh.

Also can anyone give me a practical use for knowing the derivations and differentials of all the trig identities? Hopefully they will drop it from the syllabus *crosses fingers and prays*
 
From what I hear, trig is useful for everything! :roll:
Honestly, I guess engineers use trig because it is so similar to wave and repetitive motions. As for the derivatives, they tell us how fast they're going, how fast they will/have go/gone, and how fast their fastness is changing. I know that's not technical or scholary language, but I wanted to explain it as simply as possible.

I was going to solve that problem in my head, but I just remembered that I'm on my break from Calc II right now, so screw that!

Hey Ugly John? I'm guessing you live in the Toronto area since half of Canada does. Where did you go to school? U of T? Queens? Guelph? Waterloo? I'm at McMaster University myself.
 
I have one of those "this-crap-you're-learning-actually-applies-to-real-life" kind of teachers for math, and he was going over some practical applications...I wasn't really paying attention, but he mentioned stuff about building, sounds, and the stuff Ozrat mentioned. I still think it's pretty useless... :|
 
I have my AS exams in May, little in significance to those that most of you are taking but the most inportant exams i've taken yet.
 
Why does everyone think trig is nasty?

It's one of my average maths (advanced and incomplete) subjects, while the advanced and complete maths section of my maths classes contain stuff that makes trig seem like a walk in the park.
 
Kharn, you're absolutely right, but it depends on how far you take your trigonometry. In high school we were just finding the distance of that and the angle of this. Here in engineering its been thrusted to us WITHOUT any vasoline or speed control! As for those who are taking it now, let them feel like they're doing something hard and suffer through it. There's no point in telling them that it's a walk in the park compared to other stuff. I used to think that Calculus must be the best math out there since that's what they teach up to in high school... :roll: I know better now.
 
Ozrat said:
Hey Ugly John? I'm guessing you live in the Toronto area since half of Canada does. Where did you go to school? U of T? Queens? Guelph? Waterloo? I'm at McMaster University myself.
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I am in Montreal. I went to Marie-victorin ... and lionel groulx .... and Chicoutimi.
I spent six years and two (almost) degrees in College.

And now i work in the hospitality business where trig is useless.
 
Hmm, how can I explain this?

Well in Sweden, after the so-called grundskola (can be described as high school) you get a point value. The higher the point value is the better program can you choose. I had a point value of 275 (maximum is 315 or something) and was able to choose a program called naturescience. Now I’m in grade 3 of 3 (I really should have been in two but…).

My last exams are in May

English D: Well I consider my English speaking and writing as somewhat good, but I still do mistakes from my younger ages that I never learned.

Math E: uh...this is hard but I'm managing this with some tricks :P

German 4: Yeah, my beloved native language. No probs with this.

Swedish D: I could say the same for this as for my German (if that just would have been my native).
 
Ozrat said:
Kharn, you're absolutely right, but it depends on how far you take your trigonometry. In high school we were just finding the distance of that and the angle of this.
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Aye, I remember that, I still have to use that in Science at times, sin alpha = opposite divided by...Well, you get it, I have no idea how the English terminology for this go (school subjects are the only areas my English knowledge really fails me)

In basic math or incomplete advanced math, you don't get much farther in trig than that. As for advanced math, you start getting questions such as "A line AB is the centre corde (don't know the English word) of a circle and CD the centre corde dividing AB right down the middle and making an angle of 90 degrees with it. The line A and S (random point on the circle) touches CD in Q. Prove that QS is SB" etc. etc. And that requires a lot of skill in trig and knowing a lot of backdoors.
 
Hmph!

I'm trying to post a scan of math test joke I found in the campus Engineering paper, but I don't know how to without linking to another website. Is there anyway I can just upload to NMA the pic?

On a side note, I woke up at 7:30 a.m., went to school to study at the library from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. I then decided that I didn't get enough done, so I went to the student union and studied there from 10:30 until 8:30 a.m. this morning. Went home, got a 3 hour nap, and I'm back at them! Gotta love engineering!
 
Ahh University Life

Heh, doesn't everybody feel math is ridiculously tough? I have this teacher (this year we got an unusual influx of students to Electronic Engineering and thus had to form three classrooms instead of one) in the A class named Gutierrez. He is the devil. He doesn't use a book in his class since he makes up ALL of his problems (none of which are solved by TI-89s, HP-whatevers, Mapple or MatLab) and no matter what they taught you in highschool, he can prove it wrong if he applies enough limits and trig to it(last class he proved that 2 != 2 and that 1 == 2). Made me change class to professor Nole, whose class feels like is being taught by Woody Allen or the Monty Python guys since nothing he makes up can be solved. I am not saying Calc ain't necessary but I would like to see my University make the Calculus course more applied to Electronic Engineering than pure math. For example, instead of learning where the Laplace Transformation comes from, learn where can you applied it in real life. My calculus courses feel as if I was earning a pure Math degree.

After I die and I go to hell, I am going to grab Newton's foreskin and hack it off with a stone flint; skin him and dip him in ethanol and cut everyone he knew in pieces and feed them to his GAY VICTORIAN ASS!!! ---Cry from the best Engi student down here.
 
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