i hit him back with my pet rat
I've had two midterms handed back this week. Not awful marks, but not up to last semester's standards. I really do have to blame 8am for part of that. I studied as much, if not more, than I did for last term. (I've definitely improved on reading ahead and making notes), but my marks are lower.
Looking over the tests, some of the lost points are on things I legitimately didn't study enough/didn't know/didn't remember. A decent chunk, however, is stupid errors that made sense at the time, but that I immediately understood as wrong the second time around - no futher review, simply by being less fatigued. Yes, I realize that I'm looking at the marked tests at the same time of day as when I wrote them, but I'm less stressed/sleep-deprived this week than I was during midterms.
In one of my classes, I didn't have a midterm, but I did have an assignment due that week, and a couple quizzes and individual pieces of homework earlier. I did well on all of the items that could be worked on outside of class, and scraped by on the quizzes. Yes, I studied! In fact, after doing poorly on the first one, I studied more for the second, and ended up with a slightly lower mark. So much of this semester's content is so dry and specific. Even though I can understand and apply it, I can't regurgitate it on command. Why would I want to, that sounds pretty damn gross!!
Looking over the tests, some of the lost points are on things I legitimately didn't study enough/didn't know/didn't remember. A decent chunk, however, is stupid errors that made sense at the time, but that I immediately understood as wrong the second time around - no futher review, simply by being less fatigued. Yes, I realize that I'm looking at the marked tests at the same time of day as when I wrote them, but I'm less stressed/sleep-deprived this week than I was during midterms.
In one of my classes, I didn't have a midterm, but I did have an assignment due that week, and a couple quizzes and individual pieces of homework earlier. I did well on all of the items that could be worked on outside of class, and scraped by on the quizzes. Yes, I studied! In fact, after doing poorly on the first one, I studied more for the second, and ended up with a slightly lower mark. So much of this semester's content is so dry and specific. Even though I can understand and apply it, I can't regurgitate it on command. Why would I want to, that sounds pretty damn gross!!