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Mark better than expected
Has anyone ever recieved a grade and thought "holy, how the hell did I get that GOOD of a grade?!"
I for one, never experienced this...it always turns out worse then expected  |
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04-27-2011 at 04:46 AM
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I always expect terrible marks.
Makes getting my marks very pleasant!
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04-27-2011 at 06:55 AM
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I always expect the worst possible outcome, so yes, I have been pleasantly surprised many times.
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04-27-2011 at 06:58 AM
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I was convinced I was going to get a D- in stats, I was so anxious, then I opened up mugsi and saw C, and I was astatic.
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04-27-2011 at 07:26 AM
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this happened to me with bio 2ee3 and then again with mol bio 4p03, in the latter i KNOW i bombed the exam and definitley could not have gotten what i got, but im not complaining 
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04-27-2011 at 08:48 AM
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Last semester I was sure I was gonna get a 5 or 6 in a class and I ended up getting a 10. I also remembering getting an essay back with an A and actually disputing it with my TA. We had a sit-down conversation about why I deserved that mark. I was pretty sure I deserved like a B+ instead.
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04-27-2011 at 09:27 AM
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04-27-2011 at 11:27 AM
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It has happened to me a few times, not in university yet though
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04-27-2011 at 11:28 AM
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yup!
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04-27-2011 at 11:37 AM
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Ya, like in my control systems how I was expecting only a shitty 11, but then I got a 12.
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04-27-2011 at 11:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeboi7
Has anyone ever recieved a grade and thought "holy, how the hell did I get that GOOD of a grade?!"
I for one, never experienced this...it always turns out worse then expected |
That's because you over-expect. I am not trolling. Seriously, once you start aiming lower, you will get higher and experience that "holy, how the hell did I get that GOOD of a grade?!".
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04-27-2011 at 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jeboi7
Has anyone ever recieved a grade and thought "holy, how the hell did I get that GOOD of a grade?!"
I for one, never experienced this...it always turns out worse then expected |
happened to me for the first time this semster. MUCH MUCH higher than I expected.
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04-27-2011 at 12:11 PM
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I try and expect the worst possible outcome. So you can probably understand how upset I was when my 2nd year Finance mark was even lower than that.
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04-27-2011 at 01:45 PM
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Yes, only a couple of times.
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04-27-2011 at 01:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by L'Étoile
That's because you over-expect. I am not trolling. Seriously, once you start aiming lower, you will get higher and experience that "holy, how the hell did I get that GOOD of a grade?!".
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But not to say that you should actually aim lower. I always calculate my grades going into the exam and the minimum marks I need to achieve each grade point. I find it really helpful because I know exactly how well I need to do in each course. This way I can allocate my resources efficiently to receive the highest average possible. If the exam is worth very little (like 30%) then you get huge gaps between the different grade points (like 15%). It may be easy to get a 75 on the exam, but extremely difficult to get a 90. So I wouldn't dedicate too much time for that course assuming I've been getting good grades (like 85) on the midterms.
It also helps in what you expect to get. Generally you don't expect to do much better or much worse than how you did on past midterms if you allocate the same amount of resources as your past midterms.
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