"Last Minute Studying Tips" or "WAUGH FINAL TOMORROW!"

[Seil]

Good news: my teacher tells us that she accepts bribes. Bad news: the only bribes she accepts are the ones that allow her the freedom to quit her job and never work again.

So've got me math final tomorrow, and I feel... okay about it, but I know I'll flunk the graphing portion because graphing is terrible and I hate it. But most of the things we've done, I've had an okay grasp of... maybe. Anyway, it's at 10.30 tomorrow and I've got about 3 hours with it and a calculator, so we'll see. It's on factoring, graphing and trigonometry.

Does anyone have any tips, tricks or cheat codes?

(I already have the Konami code, thank you very much.)

[Revising Ocelot]

Last minute studying tip: don't leave your studying until the last minute.

Really, you ideally want to be relaxed the day before an exam. Maybe revise general pointers for an hour or so, but doing a massive revision binge hurts more than it helps.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

And don't back slide on us already, seil!

Eat a candy bar before the test.

[rpgdemon]

Also, make sure you get a full nights sleep, before the test.

[Seil]

Just got free pizza. M'birthday's in a week. There is good in the universe. I can do this.

I've got 59%, and the test is worth 25% of the total mark. I can do this. Where are my flashcards?!

[pochercoaster]

Post threads on various forums asking how to write an exam that entails knowledge you should have internalized over the course of four months. For good measure, also message various people to let them know you're totally studying. Maybe google some studying tips. Stay up late and sleep with your textbook under your head, since knowledge works like osmosis.

[Seil]

Yes ma'am!

[Ryong]

I have 543 slides on software engineering to fully remember for tomorrow.

We're in the same boat Seil. It's not a very good boat.

[phil_]

I have a test in the morning, and I'm not gonna study at all because that's how I roll.

Like, eight in the morning "in the morning." I'm gonna come home from it and go back to bed. I'm looking forward to that; it's like the best feeling ever. Wondermark agrees. (http://wondermark.com/622/)

[Arcanum]

I have a Managerial Accounting exam tomorrow. On the plus side we get a cheat sheet for formulas. On the down side it's managerial fucking accounting.

[Fifthfiend]

I have a Managerial Accounting exam tomorrow. On the plus side we get a cheat sheet for formulas. On the down side it's managerial fucking accounting.

Things that have two words and begin with the letter M:

"Managerial Accounting"

"Mercy Killing"

Coincidence, OR???????????????????????

[Ryong]

I have a test in the morning, and I'm not gonna study at all because that's how I roll.

Like, eight in the morning "in the morning." I'm gonna come home from it and go back to bed. I'm looking forward to that; it's like the best feeling ever. Wondermark agrees. (http://wondermark.com/622/)

I had two tests today.

I think I spent 10 minutes looking at what would be on the test because the teacher was late and everyone was going batshit insane about it.

[phil_]

Oh, I had a test today, too, Ryong. I prepared for it by claiming Din's Flame, saving a whale, learning the Song of Heroes, turning my spiritual growth into a rock the size of my fist, and entering the resting place of the Triforce. Oh, and drinking. And I caught some bugs.

My prep for tomorrow included boss fights, sliding puzzles, and a colony drop. Also drinking.

[phil_]

Oh, and Seil, if you give a crap about your grades you will stop drinking and go to bed before midnight at the latest and I'm being lenient!

And that doesn't mean drink as much as you can in the meantime, either!

[Seil]

But... but that's how I roll!

How can I pass this test if I don't pull an all nighter? Where will I go if I don't understand Math? HOW WILL LIFE GO ON!?

Also, flashcards are pretty rad, all in all.

[BahamutFlare]

With graphing, it's easy.

(x,y) plot points and draw lines connecting said points to a triangle.

sohcahtoa = Sine: Opposite/hypotenuse Cosine: Adjacent/Hypotenuse Tangent: Opposite/Adjacent.

Hypotenuse is the longest side of a right triangle. And these formulas only apply to right triangles. This is most all Trig that you ever need.

[Satan's Onion]

I had a Precalculus final today. I think I did reasonably well on it--well enough to pass with a respectable GPA, but not as well as I'd hoped, because 1. Precalculus is surprisingly hard and b. I'm kind of lazy and anyway I'm an English major soooo.

I prepared for it by watching a lot of Duckman and The Critic from Youtube, along with some Mystery Science Theater 3000 just to make sure. Seemed to work, too, so clearly I am an excellent role model for everyone else who has to study stuff for things.

[Gregness]

Good news: my teacher tells us that she accepts bribes. Bad news: the only bribes she accepts are the ones that allow her the freedom to quit her job and never work again.

So've got me math final tomorrow, and I feel... okay about it, but I know I'll flunk the graphing portion because graphing is terrible and I hate it. But most of the things we've done, I've had an okay grasp of... maybe. Anyway, it's at 10.30 tomorrow and I've got about 3 hours with it and a calculator, so we'll see. It's on factoring, graphing and trigonometry.

Does anyone have any tips, tricks or cheat codes?

(I already have the Konami code, thank you very much.)

For serious though? The unit circle. The unit circle and sohcahtoa are like 80% of what you need to know for trig.

[Ryong]

So, one of the tests I took yesterday, that I didn't study at all and had no hope of doing anything ever ( I got 5/100 on the first test, after all )?

I got 62/100 and now I'm on the final last chance exam thing, need 66/100 to pass.

Like hell I'm passing.

The lesson to be learned here is that you'll only do well without studying when there is no hope to pass.

Seil, have you ever drawn a hyperboloid paraboloid?

[Seil]

FINAL TODAY FUCK SHIT WAUGH!

I know trig just fine. It's graphing. Graphing is balls. Also, I always get confused with logarithms. They're like, the easiest things ever, but I just look at them and go "What the piss?"

And then there's the complex fraction things where it's like "Oh, we know you know how to do fractions, but we're gonna make you prove it with this whole huge complex thing here. Oh boy."

@Ryong: Yeah, I've got a 59% in the course right now, this final can make or break me. I got consistent low marks on most of the beginning tests and just started checking out. Then I got tutors and I started to do better, and now I can pass.

[synkr0nized]

ha

tests



Let me know when you start preparing for interviews about your research.

[Arcanum]

Just got back from a final that had, in addition to other smaller stuff, two essays. You know what sucks more? Thinking you had three hours to write the exam. Even worse than that? Hearing "You have 6 minutes left" when I'm about to start my second essay, when the prof made no previous effort to tell us how much time was left, and never told us that we only had two hours to write the exam despite university standard being 3 hours. FUNNNNNN.

[Betty Elms]

OFFICIAL BETTY ELMS GUIDE TO FINALS: LIFE SUCCESS IN TEN EASY STEPS

1. Realize that you need to finish your paper by tomorrow, and also you don't know how time works because all you have is a half page long borderline ineligible outline titled "dicks 'n cunts: let us embark upon a voyage through the world of melville!"
2. Lock yourself in a bathroom and cry.
3. Start typing!
4. Write "I would prefer not to" a couple hundred times.
5. Realize this train is rapidly approaching its destination of "fucking nowhere," go outside and in a panic steal somebody's bicycle and ride it around campus a few times before putting it back.
6. Return to bathroom!
7. Back to typing motherfucker we are gonna conquer this shit. We are gonna listen to so much John Zorn and drink so much coffee and Calliope is just gonna take emergency command of our fleshy form, and it's gonna be like bam spiral power is reaching impossible new highs time to merge with the moon and wreck this paper's shit.
8. Crawl around on the floor for half an hour.
9. Skip class.
10. Get a D for the term.

[shiney]

That post read like it was straight out of hyperbole and a half. Well played, Betty.

[EVILNess]

OFFICIAL BETTY ELMS GUIDE TO FINALS: LIFE SUCCESS IN TEN EASY STEPS

1. Realize that you need to finish your paper by tomorrow, and also you don't know how time works because all you have is a half page long borderline ineligible outline titled "dicks 'n cunts: let us embark upon a voyage through the world of melville!"
2. Lock yourself in a bathroom and cry.
3. Start typing!
4. Write "I would prefer not to" a couple hundred times.
5. Realize this train is rapidly approaching its destination of "fucking nowhere," go outside and in a panic steal somebody's bicycle and ride it around campus a few times before putting it back.
6. Return to bathroom!
7. Back to typing motherfucker we are gonna conquer this shit. We are gonna listen to so much John Zorn and drink so much coffee and Calliope is just gonna take emergency command of our fleshy form, and it's gonna be like bam spiral power is reaching impossible new highs time to merge with the moon and wreck this paper's shit.
8. Crawl around on the floor for half an hour.
9. Skip class.
10. Get a D for the term.

That... sounds just like how I handled macroeconomics.

[TDK]

That post read like it was straight out of hyperbole and a half.


I HAVE A THEORY.


I also have three exams this coming week, Physics on monday, Mechatronics on Wednesday, Aerospace on friday. Not particularly worried about any of them. So I guess I win the thread.

[Satan's Onion]

... "dicks 'n cunts: let us embark upon a voyage through the world of melville!"

I once wrote a similar piece about Wuthering Heights. Sounds like mine had a bigger word count than yours, but I used an awful lot of swears.

[TDK]

My last final is in two hours. You know what I'm doing?

I'm making cookies, motherfuckers.

[Nikose Tyris]

I print out the lecture slides from the course, 2 per page, in thumbnail form; and I write jot notes next to the slides about key notes from them. Nothing huge, but in non-math courses I average 80%~.

[DarkDrgon]

finally doing the Homework for the class that is a full half of our grade. get to the final one, which is worth the most, and instead of giving a list of problems we need to solve, it tells us to refer to page 609 of the textbook. The customized edition of my book skips that section.

Way to go, brookdale. You're a winner, and i'm not gonna miss you when i transfer next month.