May 26, 2006 12:31
I think i just beat my lowest test score ever (a 49% in physics last year). I make stupid mistakes on tests which don't have a bubble sheet, like differential equations tests. But Diff Eq is basically just learning how to set up problems so they're solvable, then it's just a matter of calculus and algebra to finish it; once you know the procedure it should be trivial, right? Not so much for me. I totally decided that e^3ln(x) is equal to ln(x)^3, (it's not), making problem one unanswerable. I missed the factoring in problem 2, leaving me with another impossible integral. Question 3 I decided to forget all about the chain rule (even though I used it heavily in the 2 previous problems), giving me an unsolvable problem. Question 4, well, I don't know what I did on question four. And finally question 5, which was a PHYSICS problem for christ's sake, decided to remind me that I never finished any of those dumb multiplication speed tests we had to do in elementary school. Turns out 4x+3=0 when x=4/3. At least it would if I created math.
I suck.