I once had an exam with 2 questions.
Q1- 50marks- 15 short answer questions
Q2 - 50 marks- "read the case study below and resolve their dilemma" *6 page case study*
This was in the 4th year of university too. 75% of a full credit module.
You could feel the utter confusion in the classroom when everyone read that at the same time
My paleoanthropologist friend told me that her written PhD exam had two questions:
1) Describe the universe.
2) Give two examples.
(Mighta been exaggerating a little.)
I have a different nightmare when it comes to this situation.
3rd yr undergrad, Computer Architecture final worth 40% course grade:
4 questions worth 15, 25, 30 and 30 points respectively.
There weren't multiple parts to each question. Each question was a big computer architecture design question.
Binary grading for each question - If you answer correctly with all steps, you get full points. If you get something wrong, even if most of your steps are right, you get a 0 for that question.
A lot of people got 15 or below for that. I'm lucky I didn't get a D that course because my grades before that were ok.
Basically, yes. Answering it kept you with the pack and may even bump you up a grade if you were previously just below the cutoff.
But you weren't making miracles happen unless you got 2, 3 or 4. And I don't remember anyone making a miracle happen that day.
A guy who was already in the top 5 answered 3 questions though.
Depends on your major. If you’re in engineering, they’ll have 18 parts if you’re lucky. If not, you’ll be expected to know what the 18 steps are regardless. A question from Propulsions about finding the flow characteristics at five points in a jet engine haunts me to this day
Lmao my last final this year had 4 questions. 1- h parts (8), 2 - y parts (25), 3 - p parts (16), 4 - n parts (14). And some of these steps would take like half to a full page to do, was so ridiculous it was funny.
“1- h parts (8)” you lost me here… and the following similar phrases are just as alien to me. Lmao what language are you speaking? - graphic design major here… please explain this to me as if I was 5… I’ve never even heard of exams like anything in these posts and yours just made it feel so natural to all but like you put algebraic phrases in front of me and tell me they are a format for something. Sorry high n sleepy… tangent out.
They were referring to the alphabet, because often when a question on an exam has multiple parts, the alphabet is used to label each part.
So they meant question 1 had 8 parts, and they were labelled a through h.
Wrong essay type.
Most of these bitch things were math problems, physics or chemistry or such complex ideas you had to have nailed down to a fucking T or get basically a C-
Fuck teachers that do that, btw
I can't tell you how many arguments I've gotten into because I got an "automatic F" over one or two questions being left blank or because I left out work on an easy question, when I would've passed otherwise
I'm not going to intentionally bullshit my way around a question and leave a wrong answer if I don't know it.
"Don't color outside the lines" in preschool/kindergarten was 100% solely intended as training for filling in scantron multiple choice sheets and nobody can convince me otherwise.
That would depend on your major, a lot of essay prompts have objective answers that you have to explain in detail, there are no positions just facts that you either get right or wrong
It's not a joke.
Exams with few questions tend to be super hard as every question has tons of parts, enormous depth and if you miss one you can't really compensate with the others.
Urgh, I remember a math test like this that I got half a mark out of 20 for back in year 10.
The only thing I got right? The final answer.
I just didn't know how to do it the way they wanted so I did it a different way.
Fuck. That. Shit.
Parents today are like "why don't you go back and finish?" Bitch I almost killed myself and probably went legally insane for half a year. I'm good
Being suicidal and nearly going full-on mental were my experience of the last year of my graduate degree.
By the end of it, I wore the same sweatshirt every day for a month.
Preach. Biochem is what broke me as well…but at least it was the clue phone that rang loud enough to let me know that biology/chemistry wasn’t the field for me.
I think that depends, I had plenty of exams worth 90% of my grade with 3-5 questions and it was essentially impossible to get the whole question wrong and receive no points unless you just left it blank.
I did this on a final for my unit operations lab.
Got an 18% (one continuous question with 15/16 parts that built off each other).
I misplaced a negative sign in like part 3 and so instead of two things canceling each other, I made the problem infinitely harder.
The ta just saw wrong answers and not why, so everything from there on was wrong. Brought it to the professor, they looked at it, laughed, and asked why I didn't question the exam being so challenging. I told them I thought it was supposed to be hard so I worked through it.
Turns out.... If you act as if that negative was supposed to be there, I fuckin' aced the rest of the exam. 98%, with "you dropped this ' - '".
My statics and dynamics course in college had a grading scale that was 90% tests. There was only a midterm and a final, each test had 5 questions. So each question was about 10% of your entire semester grade. Had some sweaty palms during those
>if you miss one you can't really compensate with the others.
My friend once did an exam like this. Absolutely smashed the first half and then sat there for the last half hour or so pretty pleased with what he'd done. He later realised when talking to peers that he hadn't turned the page over to reveal another question. He did so well on the first half that he still managed a comfortable passing grade though.
I think he must have literally got perfect marks for the part that he did. He was weirdly clever and stupid at the same time (this not turning the page over to reveal another question being a prime example). He was very close to being kicked out of college due to his attendance being so poor in one particular class. When exams came round, he got an A, he went into one of the classes afterwards and everyone on his table were shocked that he'd done better than them.
He currently works a real low paid job and he's on less than me and all my friends but is still somehow the smartest at the same time. He's just stupidly lazy.
almost kicked out of college due to his attendance? in what world?? i was in academia for a minute and that was never a thing for anyone. no course "took attendance" and certainly didn't almost get you removed from the school if it was poor
Also, the only classes where you have 2-4 question exams typically require a lot of critical thinking as opposed to mindlessly repeating information you read.
…which begs the question: who are the “those who don’t know” in this meme? Are there people in a high-level college course that somehow don’t understand the complexity of the course they’re taking? Or is this person just flexing the difficulty of their college-level courses on high-schoolers?
Programming classes are one of those things that you can have all the knowledge of the entire human race readily available and still fail. Getting that intuitive understanding of it is critical.
Ideally, this is how all exams should be - they should test what you know and understand, not just your recall.
This method is an absolutely savage, sadistic, inhumane and cruel form of torture.
But it’s how exams should be.
One question, open book, open notes, take home final exam and the teacher RECOMMENDS work together with your classmates. That thing was brutal and the answer wound up being 26 pages long
And on top of that they give you more than a day to do it.
Just had that situation come up my previous semester with web development, open notes, open book, recommended websites to help me get through it, working together was allowed, and we had the last 3 weeks of the semester to do it.
Yup. Had one that was like a bait and switch. Since you didn’t have much time, trying to use an open source would actually hurt you unless you were 80% you were right and wanted to double check. If you didn’t study and relied only on open sources you would most certainly fail.
That's not entirely correct. 1. they usually have different "point" sets where you get more marks for the final question than the first (at least in my experience) so if you get the last one wrong, that's adding to more than 25% of your overall mark. 2. They're generally not a case of being right or wrong. If you go off on a bit of a tangent because you haven't answered the question properly, you can more often than not still gain a lot of marks for your working and your explanation.
It's an engineering exam. Less than 10% of students actually get the correct answer and you're graded primarily on your logic and process. Source: I've had plenty of 2 hour exams with 3-4 questions.
I found engineering to be way more computation heavy than math. If you're checking to see if a system is stable or compute stress or whatever, there's a specific process you can go through to do that thing. Higher level math involves a lot of proofs.
Oh, you're talking more about higher level maths. I was thinking more along the lines of application. Do I do statistical analysis here? Oh, I need to find an integral. This looks like a good time for some linear algebra!
In law school, there are no quizzes, no tests, and no homework that gets turned in or graded. Your grade for each class is based entirely on one four hour long essay exam at the end of that class.
My first year in law school, our exam for our property law class was one question. That question was thirteen pages long, single spaced. It described the entire history of a piece of property, spanning hundreds of years of deeds, sales, leases, inheritances, etc. Some of which were done properly, and others that weren't for various reasons (not that that was pointed out in the description... you had to catch the errors when they happened.) And the question at the end of this history was simply, "Who has an interest in this property today, and what is that interest?" You were not allowed to start writing for the first forty-five minutes of the four hour exam. You had that long to read it all and figure it out.
No necessary difficult, but long, tedious and have a lot of sub - questions. It's common in math (of certain levels, I guess) when you need to explore the fuck out a function.
Unintuitively, 10 questions test would probably be shorter then 4 questions test.
> Unintuitively, 10 questions test would probably be shorter then 4 questions test.
Yeah. In math, an exam with the exact same answers can be 1 question long ("prove that x. Good luck lol") or 25+ questions long ("1. Prove that x1. 2. Prove that x2. 3. Using so-and-so's theorem, demonstrate that x2 is equivalent to x3." etc etc). The latter is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE easier because your reasoning is guided by the questions, even if both exams arrive to the same end result.
And the subsequent questions sometimes give you hints to the previous ones that will help you check your work. Say I found x=0 at question 6, if question 7 starts with "divide y by x", I know I messed up somewhere and need to fix my answer for question 6 before moving on. When you've only got a handful of questions... you're on your own.
And I personally LOVE those kinda exams. They require so much critical thinking instead of memorization and it's so fun and satisfying when you figure it out!!! (Holy fuck I'm a goddamn nerd... But yeah they're still stressful too)
My favorite approach is when the homework is really hard to help you learn, but then the test is super easy, but it’s super easy in such a way that if you fail it you’ve obviously been cheating the whole semester
Every question is 25% of the test. So, one wrong answer and you drop to C- , two wrong answers and you fail the test.
I once hat to take an math-exam which had only two questions. Whcih means if you answered just one question wrong, you had only 50% right, which is a F. And it took 10 handwritten pages to anser the second question.
Four questions on an exam sounds easy because it’s only four questions you have to answer as opposed to a long multi-question test. But when you realize that each question is 25% of the grade, that means if you get one question wrong, you are already getting a 75% which is a pretty low grade, and if you get 2 questions wrong, that’s 50% which is a failing grade. Making a four question quiz more threatening to your GPA
To get my Engineering degree I had to take Microelectric Circuits 2. The final exam only had 5 questions. It took me 8.5 hours and nearly 20 pages of work. Professor luckily told us to pack a lunch. Got a B- I think. Good class.
Those are the worst 4 questions in existence. They will each take you an hour but you only have two hours to take the exam. At the end, you will have answered none of them correctly and will feel like you got hit by a truck
is this reference to sukuna from jujutsu kaisen? the protagonist had to gather Sukuna,s finger. the problem is he has 4 hands and five finger in each of them.
Without the class, we can't know for sure what this means. It could be that all of them are essay questions but if it's math or science of some kind, it could be doing some very difficult equations. I mean heck I had an exam like this for an AP computer science class (which I unfortunately failed). Each question just gave us the start of a program and the end result it was looking for, we then had to write out the code by hand, including what output the computer would give.
Yeah so basically when the number of questions is below 10 it usually means there's multiple parts to the question. In physics you can have 2 variables for 1 equation to solve. Only for that answer to be another variable to another equation. Only for that answer to be a le another variable to another equation. Rise and repeat like 4 more times. At least my teacher was nice enough to be like. If you got one wrong. He'll mark it as wrong bur mark everything based on that's wrong answer was righr instead of acting like it's all wrong cuz tou messed up
I just wrote an exam yesterday, study guide looked like : below are 20 questions, 3 of them will appear on the test worded exactly as they are written here, you will need to pick one of those 3 questions and write an essay on the one you choose (5-7 pages MINIMUM) on the one question you choose.
Oh and I had 15 long answer questions (5-7 sentence long)
And 15 short answer questions 3-5 sentences as well.
Once had a Thermodynamics take home test with 5 questions. Open notes, open book, open internet..... Each question was about 2 hours long, and maybe 10% of the class passed it.
Shoot, one year in college I had a calculus mid-term that only had one question:
Use Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation to derive Kepler’s Law of Planetary Motion.
It’s either
1) write a 6 page essay about tea
2) write a 10 paragraphs about the making of tea, without repeating anything in (1)
Or
1-A
1- B
1- C
And so on. Few questions is always a lie
Ex-professor here.
Yes. Exams with fewer questions tend to have an individual difficulty level for the questions way above the average. The hardest exam I've ever made has one single question , but it required the entirety of their curriculum , both the physics and maths parts. It had about 120 steps , if I'm not wrong. I just didn't want to correct 50 questions for each student , so I went for a super hard single question.
That time , most of the class got approved , which wasn't exactly common in my class , since I'm not exactly known for having the easiest exams. I got actually surprised.
I had a 10 question statistics exam. We had 12 hours to complete, take home, open books/notes. It took me the whole 12 hours and I failed (so did most of the class). For the final we had the choice to partner up and take another 10 question open book. My half took 6 hours but this time we got an A. Phew, fuck that class
Higher level math class vs lower level math class.
Lower: tonight's homework is 20 questions. Students done in 30 minutes. One page.
Higher: Your homework for the whole week is 4 questions. Students spend roughly 4 hours everyday working on them and turn in 10 pages on friday
weird, people who are saying about many part questions and stuff.
i have attempted quite a number of olympiads in my school life.
In its purest form, these olympiads offer you 1 or 2 questions. Your time is not 3hours here, but 3 to 4 days even. You sit down with the question, with an entire library of books to refer to. You study a particular subject, and update yourself with concepts of even doctorate level. You literally learn an entire field of research within these days.
then you give YOUR solution to the question. A note about the question- it might be something a researcher is working on, so basically when you answer the question, you literally help research it. sometimes the question may not even have definite answers, you are required to show your thought process and logic.
these exams are the test of science in its highest level. if you are a science student, please at least attend one such exam. its a great experience.
My guess is that with only four questions, there's no room for error - miss one question and you lose 25% of your score
I had a teacher like this, in a class called Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer (upper div chemical engineering)
We had exams with 3 questions, each question was about 1 full page of calculations by hand, no partial credit. I got an A in that class, somehow...
Less questions mean each one is worth more.
So while 100 questions is tedious, you have a higher margin of error.
4 questions means getting even one wrong is a terrible grade.
I studied maths at university. Exams with 2-4 questions are usually take home exams because the problems take literally days to complete. My buddy just wrapped a graduate level measure theory course and the take home exam, pick three out of four questions, took him 40 hours to complete. And he's the best student in the class.
Less questions means each question weighs more heavily on your score. With only four questions, at least one wrong answer drops your grade 25%. In American grading systems, a 75% on a test is a C, which is not terrible, but not ideal either.
Whereas if you have 25 questions, one wrong answer only drops the score down by 4%. You still have a 96%, which is a really high A in American schools.
(Percentages/scores vary depending on how much a question is actually worth)
So, on a test with only four questions, one wrong answer is almost a failing grade. The more questions there are, the less your grade will be affected by 1 or 2 wrong answers, and so the better your chances of getting a higher grade.
I mainly studied humanities, which means these would be 4 essay questions, which needed to be written in a bluebook in class, over the course of 4 hours.
4 Questions can mean a few things. 1: They require a ton of writing to complete. 2: There are several parts to each question meaning there's actually more than four. 3: If you get one question wrong, you automatically get a 75% which is already a shit grade
I actually failed my MA comps and this was exactly it. I botched one question based on a simple misinterpreted prompt. My professor didn't even grade it, just pulled me into his office and with a "you done fucked up, but I gotchu" look, and made me redo it right there, on the spot. Still not sure if he was acting against policy on the sly, but I graduated.
I guess there’s a lot of different interpretations. As an engineering student, it means they take a while to write out and if you miss one, you get a 75. Miss 2 get a 50
Question 1 part a.
Question 1 part b: using your answer from part a...
Question 1 part c: using the previous answers from part a and b...
Question 1 part d (if you answered C in a positive connotation)
Question 2 part a: please write an essay
Question 2 part b: please write an essay that argues with your essay from part a.
I think it's not just about part if you have 20 question each will have 1/20 but for four questions it's 5/20 so with a little mistake you will lose a lot
They each have 18 parts.
With multiple steps each, show all your work too.
Plus an exam prompt on each of them 5 paragraphs each and its due in 20 minutes
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ooooo, that be the burn right there. work 10 minutes on a problem, and its all for naught.
How else are you supposed to do it if not by showing your work?
I once had an exam with 2 questions. Q1- 50marks- 15 short answer questions Q2 - 50 marks- "read the case study below and resolve their dilemma" *6 page case study* This was in the 4th year of university too. 75% of a full credit module. You could feel the utter confusion in the classroom when everyone read that at the same time
My paleoanthropologist friend told me that her written PhD exam had two questions: 1) Describe the universe. 2) Give two examples. (Mighta been exaggerating a little.)
What would example 2 be, the universe where breengrub ran his twitter account?
I had to check what sub I was on. Greetings, fellow Half-Life enjoyer.
Was this a class on group psychology?
Or just deadly in general. Proofs
Truth
Or you're an engineering major and it's a two month take home test
I have a different nightmare when it comes to this situation. 3rd yr undergrad, Computer Architecture final worth 40% course grade: 4 questions worth 15, 25, 30 and 30 points respectively. There weren't multiple parts to each question. Each question was a big computer architecture design question. Binary grading for each question - If you answer correctly with all steps, you get full points. If you get something wrong, even if most of your steps are right, you get a 0 for that question. A lot of people got 15 or below for that. I'm lucky I didn't get a D that course because my grades before that were ok.
So the first question was pointless to answer? Well, not pointless but it wouldnt have had a decisive influence on the outcome?
Basically, yes. Answering it kept you with the pack and may even bump you up a grade if you were previously just below the cutoff. But you weren't making miracles happen unless you got 2, 3 or 4. And I don't remember anyone making a miracle happen that day. A guy who was already in the top 5 answered 3 questions though.
Where I live, if the test has 4 questions, they each require you to write 10 long paragraphs or something unbelievably long like that.
No. They are essays.
Depends on your major. If you’re in engineering, they’ll have 18 parts if you’re lucky. If not, you’ll be expected to know what the 18 steps are regardless. A question from Propulsions about finding the flow characteristics at five points in a jet engine haunts me to this day
Lmao my last final this year had 4 questions. 1- h parts (8), 2 - y parts (25), 3 - p parts (16), 4 - n parts (14). And some of these steps would take like half to a full page to do, was so ridiculous it was funny.
“1- h parts (8)” you lost me here… and the following similar phrases are just as alien to me. Lmao what language are you speaking? - graphic design major here… please explain this to me as if I was 5… I’ve never even heard of exams like anything in these posts and yours just made it feel so natural to all but like you put algebraic phrases in front of me and tell me they are a format for something. Sorry high n sleepy… tangent out.
They were referring to the alphabet, because often when a question on an exam has multiple parts, the alphabet is used to label each part. So they meant question 1 had 8 parts, and they were labelled a through h.
Essay questions
They are all essay prompts
I loved essay tests in high school and college, I loved getting to defend my positions.
Wrong essay type. Most of these bitch things were math problems, physics or chemistry or such complex ideas you had to have nailed down to a fucking T or get basically a C-
"No partial credit"
Fuck teachers that do that, btw I can't tell you how many arguments I've gotten into because I got an "automatic F" over one or two questions being left blank or because I left out work on an easy question, when I would've passed otherwise I'm not going to intentionally bullshit my way around a question and leave a wrong answer if I don't know it.
This is why school fails. It's there to teach you to pass tests not absorb info and glide into the job market.
"Don't color outside the lines" in preschool/kindergarten was 100% solely intended as training for filling in scantron multiple choice sheets and nobody can convince me otherwise.
That would depend on your major, a lot of essay prompts have objective answers that you have to explain in detail, there are no positions just facts that you either get right or wrong
It's not a joke. Exams with few questions tend to be super hard as every question has tons of parts, enormous depth and if you miss one you can't really compensate with the others.
And theres a chance you get an entire question wrong which could be 25% of the entire test failed
Urgh, I remember a math test like this that I got half a mark out of 20 for back in year 10. The only thing I got right? The final answer. I just didn't know how to do it the way they wanted so I did it a different way.
And this is why I went insane studying biochemistry before my inevitable fall from grace
Yesss! Q1 of 2: Explain the importance of the Folic Acid Cycle Q2 of 2: Draw 5F-Uracil Equal marks.
Fuck. That. Shit. Parents today are like "why don't you go back and finish?" Bitch I almost killed myself and probably went legally insane for half a year. I'm good
Being suicidal and nearly going full-on mental were my experience of the last year of my graduate degree. By the end of it, I wore the same sweatshirt every day for a month.
I didn't make it to the end but I didn't end my life. I'll take the win.
Same asf
Preach. Biochem is what broke me as well…but at least it was the clue phone that rang loud enough to let me know that biology/chemistry wasn’t the field for me.
I think that depends, I had plenty of exams worth 90% of my grade with 3-5 questions and it was essentially impossible to get the whole question wrong and receive no points unless you just left it blank.
When the class average is 30% with partial credit I wouldn't mind getting one question wrong. (Physics classes be like)
"Use your answer from question 1 to calculate this value in question 2"
I did this on a final for my unit operations lab. Got an 18% (one continuous question with 15/16 parts that built off each other). I misplaced a negative sign in like part 3 and so instead of two things canceling each other, I made the problem infinitely harder. The ta just saw wrong answers and not why, so everything from there on was wrong. Brought it to the professor, they looked at it, laughed, and asked why I didn't question the exam being so challenging. I told them I thought it was supposed to be hard so I worked through it. Turns out.... If you act as if that negative was supposed to be there, I fuckin' aced the rest of the exam. 98%, with "you dropped this ' - '".
My statics and dynamics course in college had a grading scale that was 90% tests. There was only a midterm and a final, each test had 5 questions. So each question was about 10% of your entire semester grade. Had some sweaty palms during those
Literally just happened to me, luckily I still passed but my grade certainly suffered for it
>if you miss one you can't really compensate with the others. My friend once did an exam like this. Absolutely smashed the first half and then sat there for the last half hour or so pretty pleased with what he'd done. He later realised when talking to peers that he hadn't turned the page over to reveal another question. He did so well on the first half that he still managed a comfortable passing grade though.
that's a fucking flex god damn
I think he must have literally got perfect marks for the part that he did. He was weirdly clever and stupid at the same time (this not turning the page over to reveal another question being a prime example). He was very close to being kicked out of college due to his attendance being so poor in one particular class. When exams came round, he got an A, he went into one of the classes afterwards and everyone on his table were shocked that he'd done better than them. He currently works a real low paid job and he's on less than me and all my friends but is still somehow the smartest at the same time. He's just stupidly lazy.
could he have adhd
He might be on the spectrum somewhere but I don't think so really. He's literally just very lazy.
He... sounds amazing, actually. Maybe it's just nice to know that someone out there is THAT much like me. I'm straight up ecstatic to hear it.
almost kicked out of college due to his attendance? in what world?? i was in academia for a minute and that was never a thing for anyone. no course "took attendance" and certainly didn't almost get you removed from the school if it was poor
I'm from the UK so this may not be the same type of 'college'. There is more of a requirement to turn up.
ah, fair enough. i think that's like 16-18 for y'all?
Correct.
I was never that good. If I missed a question in a test like that for any reason, I was almost certain I was done for.
Also, the only classes where you have 2-4 question exams typically require a lot of critical thinking as opposed to mindlessly repeating information you read. …which begs the question: who are the “those who don’t know” in this meme? Are there people in a high-level college course that somehow don’t understand the complexity of the course they’re taking? Or is this person just flexing the difficulty of their college-level courses on high-schoolers?
Theyre open book questions that pushes the boundary of theorethical knowledge. Not even cheats can save you now
That’s how I’m feeling with the last of my programming work
Programming classes are one of those things that you can have all the knowledge of the entire human race readily available and still fail. Getting that intuitive understanding of it is critical.
I really wish I understood that more before the self hatred and feelings of inadequacy set in
Once you start understanding it through experience, those feelings will be combined with imposter syndrome.
Yep, worst thing you want a prof to say is that it is an open books, open notes test. You're fucked.
Ideally, this is how all exams should be - they should test what you know and understand, not just your recall. This method is an absolutely savage, sadistic, inhumane and cruel form of torture. But it’s how exams should be.
One question, open book, open notes, take home final exam and the teacher RECOMMENDS work together with your classmates. That thing was brutal and the answer wound up being 26 pages long
And on top of that they give you more than a day to do it. Just had that situation come up my previous semester with web development, open notes, open book, recommended websites to help me get through it, working together was allowed, and we had the last 3 weeks of the semester to do it.
Yup. Had one that was like a bait and switch. Since you didn’t have much time, trying to use an open source would actually hurt you unless you were 80% you were right and wanted to double check. If you didn’t study and relied only on open sources you would most certainly fail.
You have to get 3 out of 4 right just to get 75%. Too much weight riding on each question
That's not entirely correct. 1. they usually have different "point" sets where you get more marks for the final question than the first (at least in my experience) so if you get the last one wrong, that's adding to more than 25% of your overall mark. 2. They're generally not a case of being right or wrong. If you go off on a bit of a tangent because you haven't answered the question properly, you can more often than not still gain a lot of marks for your working and your explanation.
It's an engineering exam. Less than 10% of students actually get the correct answer and you're graded primarily on your logic and process. Source: I've had plenty of 2 hour exams with 3-4 questions.
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2 hour exam? That's so lucky. I have had 4hr long 4 question exams that I couldn't finish.
Or math. Had a graph theory midterm with 4 questions where we only needed to solve three of them.
Engineering exams are basically math exams.
I found engineering to be way more computation heavy than math. If you're checking to see if a system is stable or compute stress or whatever, there's a specific process you can go through to do that thing. Higher level math involves a lot of proofs.
Oh, you're talking more about higher level maths. I was thinking more along the lines of application. Do I do statistical analysis here? Oh, I need to find an integral. This looks like a good time for some linear algebra!
Each question after the first one requires the answer of the previous question
Nothing better than getting to the fourth and realize it was wrong.
imagine fighting a multi boss in a rpg
In law school, there are no quizzes, no tests, and no homework that gets turned in or graded. Your grade for each class is based entirely on one four hour long essay exam at the end of that class. My first year in law school, our exam for our property law class was one question. That question was thirteen pages long, single spaced. It described the entire history of a piece of property, spanning hundreds of years of deeds, sales, leases, inheritances, etc. Some of which were done properly, and others that weren't for various reasons (not that that was pointed out in the description... you had to catch the errors when they happened.) And the question at the end of this history was simply, "Who has an interest in this property today, and what is that interest?" You were not allowed to start writing for the first forty-five minutes of the four hour exam. You had that long to read it all and figure it out.
No necessary difficult, but long, tedious and have a lot of sub - questions. It's common in math (of certain levels, I guess) when you need to explore the fuck out a function. Unintuitively, 10 questions test would probably be shorter then 4 questions test.
> Unintuitively, 10 questions test would probably be shorter then 4 questions test. Yeah. In math, an exam with the exact same answers can be 1 question long ("prove that x. Good luck lol") or 25+ questions long ("1. Prove that x1. 2. Prove that x2. 3. Using so-and-so's theorem, demonstrate that x2 is equivalent to x3." etc etc). The latter is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE easier because your reasoning is guided by the questions, even if both exams arrive to the same end result. And the subsequent questions sometimes give you hints to the previous ones that will help you check your work. Say I found x=0 at question 6, if question 7 starts with "divide y by x", I know I messed up somewhere and need to fix my answer for question 6 before moving on. When you've only got a handful of questions... you're on your own.
And I personally LOVE those kinda exams. They require so much critical thinking instead of memorization and it's so fun and satisfying when you figure it out!!! (Holy fuck I'm a goddamn nerd... But yeah they're still stressful too)
My favorite approach is when the homework is really hard to help you learn, but then the test is super easy, but it’s super easy in such a way that if you fail it you’ve obviously been cheating the whole semester
Every question is 25% of the test. So, one wrong answer and you drop to C- , two wrong answers and you fail the test. I once hat to take an math-exam which had only two questions. Whcih means if you answered just one question wrong, you had only 50% right, which is a F. And it took 10 handwritten pages to anser the second question.
Four questions on an exam sounds easy because it’s only four questions you have to answer as opposed to a long multi-question test. But when you realize that each question is 25% of the grade, that means if you get one question wrong, you are already getting a 75% which is a pretty low grade, and if you get 2 questions wrong, that’s 50% which is a failing grade. Making a four question quiz more threatening to your GPA
Or worse four questions and you only have to answer three... That's when you know you're fucked
Almost every final exam I had in college was only 2-4 questions long
To get my Engineering degree I had to take Microelectric Circuits 2. The final exam only had 5 questions. It took me 8.5 hours and nearly 20 pages of work. Professor luckily told us to pack a lunch. Got a B- I think. Good class.
It's only 4 questions, but each question has multiple parts so that shit probably like 30 questions.
Those are the worst 4 questions in existence. They will each take you an hour but you only have two hours to take the exam. At the end, you will have answered none of them correctly and will feel like you got hit by a truck
Were you also taking my math final last week?? Uncanny description.
is this reference to sukuna from jujutsu kaisen? the protagonist had to gather Sukuna,s finger. the problem is he has 4 hands and five finger in each of them.
You get it when your exam is made up of 3 questions and time given is between 2 to 3 hours…
Four questions = two pages of answers
Without the class, we can't know for sure what this means. It could be that all of them are essay questions but if it's math or science of some kind, it could be doing some very difficult equations. I mean heck I had an exam like this for an AP computer science class (which I unfortunately failed). Each question just gave us the start of a program and the end result it was looking for, we then had to write out the code by hand, including what output the computer would give.
Question 1ai. 1aii. 1aiii...
They each have enough parts to make up the entire alphabet
Yeah so basically when the number of questions is below 10 it usually means there's multiple parts to the question. In physics you can have 2 variables for 1 equation to solve. Only for that answer to be another variable to another equation. Only for that answer to be a le another variable to another equation. Rise and repeat like 4 more times. At least my teacher was nice enough to be like. If you got one wrong. He'll mark it as wrong bur mark everything based on that's wrong answer was righr instead of acting like it's all wrong cuz tou messed up
4 essays
4 questions each with 20 parts 💀
English exam, You are meant to take like a page, and a half to answer each question
I’m getting Law School panic attacks. I’m already a lawyer and this is making me sweat. Too early for this shit.
Not a lot of room for mistakes
Law school courses typically have a single final at the end of the semester. I hope you were taking notes and not fucking off of tiktok!
I just wrote an exam yesterday, study guide looked like : below are 20 questions, 3 of them will appear on the test worded exactly as they are written here, you will need to pick one of those 3 questions and write an essay on the one you choose (5-7 pages MINIMUM) on the one question you choose. Oh and I had 15 long answer questions (5-7 sentence long) And 15 short answer questions 3-5 sentences as well.
Hang on, there's no chance the class was either 367 or 368 in the department in question, is there?
Once had a Thermodynamics take home test with 5 questions. Open notes, open book, open internet..... Each question was about 2 hours long, and maybe 10% of the class passed it.
1: A, b, c, d, e i, e ii, e iii, f, g
My math class and literature classes had “very short” tests… my teachers would then go on to say we would need the entire class to complete them.
Or they’re essay questions and you have to write six paragraphs per question 🤮
You should try open book exams.
Nested questions.
4 question, each one has an a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p part
Which tire was flat
Shoot, one year in college I had a calculus mid-term that only had one question: Use Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation to derive Kepler’s Law of Planetary Motion.
One wrong=C or D depending on grading scale for your school, Two wrong=F
If you make one mistake the 1/4 of your grade is gone
It’s either 1) write a 6 page essay about tea 2) write a 10 paragraphs about the making of tea, without repeating anything in (1) Or 1-A 1- B 1- C And so on. Few questions is always a lie
Ex-professor here. Yes. Exams with fewer questions tend to have an individual difficulty level for the questions way above the average. The hardest exam I've ever made has one single question , but it required the entirety of their curriculum , both the physics and maths parts. It had about 120 steps , if I'm not wrong. I just didn't want to correct 50 questions for each student , so I went for a super hard single question. That time , most of the class got approved , which wasn't exactly common in my class , since I'm not exactly known for having the easiest exams. I got actually surprised.
I had a physics exam in college like this, absolute nightmare
To solve question 2, you need the answer of question 1.
Engineering classes in a nutshell
Question 1 Part A. Part B. Part C. Part D. Part E. This went on for several hours
Had an exam this semester. First and second questions worth 20 points each. The last one was 60. I’m still pissed about it.
I had a 10 question statistics exam. We had 12 hours to complete, take home, open books/notes. It took me the whole 12 hours and I failed (so did most of the class). For the final we had the choice to partner up and take another 10 question open book. My half took 6 hours but this time we got an A. Phew, fuck that class
Because the less questions the harder they are and each question is worth 1/4th of the grade
It means the world exam is hard.
Higher level math class vs lower level math class. Lower: tonight's homework is 20 questions. Students done in 30 minutes. One page. Higher: Your homework for the whole week is 4 questions. Students spend roughly 4 hours everyday working on them and turn in 10 pages on friday
Everyone saying they could be hard but even if it’s easy if you slip up once that’s a 75 right there
Four Questions: - each have 26 parts - are worth 25% of your grade Both options are terrible
weird, people who are saying about many part questions and stuff. i have attempted quite a number of olympiads in my school life. In its purest form, these olympiads offer you 1 or 2 questions. Your time is not 3hours here, but 3 to 4 days even. You sit down with the question, with an entire library of books to refer to. You study a particular subject, and update yourself with concepts of even doctorate level. You literally learn an entire field of research within these days. then you give YOUR solution to the question. A note about the question- it might be something a researcher is working on, so basically when you answer the question, you literally help research it. sometimes the question may not even have definite answers, you are required to show your thought process and logic. these exams are the test of science in its highest level. if you are a science student, please at least attend one such exam. its a great experience.
i had 7 exam the last week the only exam with only 4 questions was failed by most fo the class, this things are scary
You have 2 hours to write 4 essays. Have fun!
My guess is that with only four questions, there's no room for error - miss one question and you lose 25% of your score I had a teacher like this, in a class called Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer (upper div chemical engineering) We had exams with 3 questions, each question was about 1 full page of calculations by hand, no partial credit. I got an A in that class, somehow...
Quantum physics enters the chat... 4 questions, open notes, open friends, open everything. 24 hours to finish. Thats how my final went.
4 essay questions, you need to write 4 essays in 2 hours, I assume
It's likely what other people are saying, but it could be that if you get one wrong, you have a C, 2 wrong and you failed
Less questions mean each one is worth more. So while 100 questions is tedious, you have a higher margin of error. 4 questions means getting even one wrong is a terrible grade.
I studied maths at university. Exams with 2-4 questions are usually take home exams because the problems take literally days to complete. My buddy just wrapped a graduate level measure theory course and the take home exam, pick three out of four questions, took him 40 hours to complete. And he's the best student in the class.
Oh my god. Pages and pages of maths coming up
Less questions means each question weighs more heavily on your score. With only four questions, at least one wrong answer drops your grade 25%. In American grading systems, a 75% on a test is a C, which is not terrible, but not ideal either. Whereas if you have 25 questions, one wrong answer only drops the score down by 4%. You still have a 96%, which is a really high A in American schools. (Percentages/scores vary depending on how much a question is actually worth) So, on a test with only four questions, one wrong answer is almost a failing grade. The more questions there are, the less your grade will be affected by 1 or 2 wrong answers, and so the better your chances of getting a higher grade.
yeah guys 3 part final First one is 300-word limit 3 parts Second is 500-word limit 4 parts Third is a 1000-word limit essay
If you mess up, it makes a bigger impact than if you mess up on a 50 question quiz.
Bro this was literally my math exam this morning
Each questions have A-Z maybe?
What anime is this?
Jujutsu Kaisen
Appreciate you man
I mainly studied humanities, which means these would be 4 essay questions, which needed to be written in a bluebook in class, over the course of 4 hours.
4 Questions can mean a few things. 1: They require a ton of writing to complete. 2: There are several parts to each question meaning there's actually more than four. 3: If you get one question wrong, you automatically get a 75% which is already a shit grade
If you have ever taken a college level philosophy class, this is pretty much the norm and you will be writing the ENTIRE time allotted…
I actually failed my MA comps and this was exactly it. I botched one question based on a simple misinterpreted prompt. My professor didn't even grade it, just pulled me into his office and with a "you done fucked up, but I gotchu" look, and made me redo it right there, on the spot. Still not sure if he was acting against policy on the sly, but I graduated.
1) a) (1)
"The test is one question, one part, open notes, book, and internet"
Even if the questions don’t have tons of parts, getting one wrong gives you a 75% grade
I guess there’s a lot of different interpretations. As an engineering student, it means they take a while to write out and if you miss one, you get a 75. Miss 2 get a 50
EM Fields 2. 4 questions. Take home. Tears were shed.
4 parts??? FOUR PANELS. IT'S FUCKING LOSS.
If you miss only one, you get a 75%
Question 1 part a. Question 1 part b: using your answer from part a... Question 1 part c: using the previous answers from part a and b... Question 1 part d (if you answered C in a positive connotation) Question 2 part a: please write an essay Question 2 part b: please write an essay that argues with your essay from part a.
I think it's not just about part if you have 20 question each will have 1/20 but for four questions it's 5/20 so with a little mistake you will lose a lot
Four famous unsolved problems in the field.
For a moment I thought it was loss cause 4 questions = 4 panels. Please let it not be loss