I have seen the pale horseman of Death....
... and its name is physical chemistry.
Seriously, though. Most brutal exam. Ever. I'll be lucky to get 2/3rds of the problems correct. And I shudder to think about how low the class average will be.
The sick thing is that it was sort of fun. I'm such an academic masochist. I haven't been challenged by a test like that in a long time.
It's not that we were expected to know esoteric things. No, making an exam like that is the easy way out. Instead, we were expected to extrapolate the answers using the information we knew.
For example: We spend half of first quarter learning about particle in a box. Test question? Derive wavefunction for particle in a different shape (won't tell shape, in case someone hasn't taken exam yet and happens to read this). Good times. (I got that wrong, btw.)
Seriously, though. Most brutal exam. Ever. I'll be lucky to get 2/3rds of the problems correct. And I shudder to think about how low the class average will be.
The sick thing is that it was sort of fun. I'm such an academic masochist. I haven't been challenged by a test like that in a long time.
It's not that we were expected to know esoteric things. No, making an exam like that is the easy way out. Instead, we were expected to extrapolate the answers using the information we knew.
For example: We spend half of first quarter learning about particle in a box. Test question? Derive wavefunction for particle in a different shape (won't tell shape, in case someone hasn't taken exam yet and happens to read this). Good times. (I got that wrong, btw.)