Calc 2 Exam

[K]

My calc 2 exam is today.  Boy I wish I had use my AP Credits and skipped to calc 3 instead of thinking, "hey, calc 2 will be review.  It'll be easy."

[Yoni]

Taking calc 3 without calc 2 sounds dangerous.

[K]

Taking calc 3 without calc 2 sounds dangerous.

Yeah, it would be  
I actually took the Advanced Placement BC Course in Highschool, so technically I *have* taken calc 1 and 2.  We did surface area / volume of rotation,  covergence of sequences / series, Taylor/MacLaurin series, etcetera.  I get the feeling that if I had taken calc 3 first year after graduating, I would remember more than I do now.  I took calc 1 last semester for an easy A and I'm taking calc 2 this semester.

[CrAzY]

I'm in Algebra 1  

[MyndFyre]

My calc 2 exam is today.  Boy I wish I had use my AP Credits and skipped to calc 3 instead of thinking, "hey, calc 2 will be review.  It'll be easy."

Nah, don't worry, the calc 2 will be good for you, especially if you get into series, if you didn't in high school.  That's exactly how I felt until we got there, at which point I soiled myself because it was unfamiliar.

[K]

I just got back my third exam today in calc2.  Everything on it I had seen before and knew how to do, and I still got a 58.  Now I definently wish I had skipped this class.  Our teacher is just an asshole.

Edit: Class Average: 50.

[Adron]

I just got back my third exam today in calc2.  Everything on it I had seen before and knew how to do, and I still got a 58.  Now I definently wish I had skipped this class.  Our teacher is just an asshole.

Edit: Class Average: 50.

So, why didn't you get a full score? You made stupid mistakes?

[K]

I just got back my third exam today in calc2.  Everything on it I had seen before and knew how to do, and I still got a 58.  Now I definently wish I had skipped this class.  Our teacher is just an asshole.

Edit: Class Average: 50.

So, why didn't you get a full score? You made stupid mistakes?

He likes to pull out new material on the tests.  IE, he'll work through a problem without mentioning what would happen if Y instead of X? and then throw a problem like that onto the test.  It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's that it's not what you would expect when the majority of the people in the class just learned X for the first time last week and you're trying to budget time.

That and he gave a problem with parts A, B, C, D, and E.  In order to get full credit on parts B C D and E, you have to get A right.  I made a simple error on part A that caused parts B C D and E to be easier to work out than if I had gotten A right.  Boom.  4 points out of 26.

[Adron]

He likes to pull out new material on the tests.  IE, he'll work through a problem without mentioning what would happen if Y instead of X? and then throw a problem like that onto the test.  It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's that it's not what you would expect when the majority of the people in the class just learned X for the first time last week and you're trying to budget time.

That and he gave a problem with parts A, B, C, D, and E.  In order to get full credit on parts B C D and E, you have to get A right.  I made a simple error on part A that caused parts B C D and E to be easier to work out than if I had gotten A right.  Boom.  4 points out of 26.

Sounds completely fair to me. A test can't be about using the same old knowledge on the same old problems, what kind of test would that be? It has to be the same knowledge on new problems!

And it sounds like you should've checked your answers better. Having to do the first simple part correctly to get any points at all from the other parts makes sense. Sounds like he was nice and gave you a few points instead of a zero for the whole problem?

[K]

The four points I got on that problem was the partial credit I got for getting part A almost completely right.  I got ZERO points for all the work I did on parts B, C, D and E, which was completely correct with respect to my answer on part A.

Edit:  If this test is completely fair with respect to the course, why was the class average a 50?  Either the test isn't fair, or his teaching leaves something to be desired.

[Adron]

Ah, well, makes sense, and makes you check your solutions more carefully?

[iago]

That's evil when b, c, d, and e depend on a.  That often happens on our tests, but if we pooch up a, they still give you credit for b, c, d, e.

[Adron]

That's evil when b, c, d, and e depend on a.  That often happens on our tests, but if we pooch up a, they still give you credit for b, c, d, e.

That typically depends on whether b, c, d, e have meaning considering you failed a - if b, c, d, e don't test what they were supposed to test, you get no points. But often you can figure out that you did something wrong on a if the other ones don't make sense when you do them based on your a.

[Falcon[anti-yL]]

I'm in Algebra 1  

Don't worry, I'm in that class too. Its sooo boring.

[Yoni]

I'm in Algebra 1  

Don't worry, I'm in that class too. Its sooo boring.

I agree. Algebra is boring and obvious in comparison to calculus, which is exciting and intriguing.