Posted: 10/29/2010 4:45:39 PM EDT
| I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% was over 90 points, 20% above 30 points<75 points, and the rest above 75 points < 90 points. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. |
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Even if you got an "A" in class, you'll be flipping burgers for a living.  Yeah I find it basically true the amount of people that got below an "F". Every night of the week that I am at the dorms with my girlfriend I hear kids partying up until 3-4 am and most have class at 8 and no later than 12. Meanwhile I forgo the parties and study my ass off. I figure the top percentage are people that are naturally brillliant at math read. the engineering types and the mid are people with good work ethic while the bottom half if people enjoying mom and dads money and not caring. |
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Chicks don't like math majors no matter how smart they are Yeah luckily for me I am not a math major but rather a business major.  However, this class is required for my major and yes your reasoning was the same as mine for the deviation of the class scores. 
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I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. LOL WUT? Is that English, or fancy upper math class talk? |
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Quoted: Quoted: I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. LOL WUT? Is that English, or fancy upper math class talk? Good point. Maybe the burger flipping comment was right. |
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Meanwhile I forgo the parties and study my ass off. You're doing it wrong. Full ride scholarship. Stipulates I need to make a 3.3 or better to keep it. I think I am going the right thing. If I get 3 a's, and 1 c. Then I will be over what I need. |
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Quoted: I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. I am guessing you will do very badly at stats. (even with your edit)
My Diff Eq class tended to have test averages of about 30/100. I didn't understand it until my circuits class. Boundary conditions didn't make sense until I had to calculate the deflection of a beam. |
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I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. LOL WUT? Is that English, or fancy upper math class talk? 100 people had less than a 30 on the test 200 had between 30 and 74 600 were between 75 and 89 100 people had a 90 or better |
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I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. LOL WUT? Is that English, or fancy upper math class talk? 100 people had less than a 30 on the test 200 had between 30 and 74 600 were between 75 and 89 100 people had a 90 or better n Thanks, I guess I should have clarified. My original post my bad so I edited, but I guess it wasn't enough. Nice work!
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Sounds to me like you need to party more. YMMV  Haha good to see you in GD buddy get all your paper work taken care of? I probably actually should but this first term at least I am focusing on studies and seeing how it goes. It should be all done by Thursday. Silly schedules on their end. 
Don't feel bad about the lack of partying - I spend about 4 hours doing homework this Friday night. |
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Chicks don't like math majors no matter how smart they are Yeah luckily for me I am not a math major but rather a business major. However, this class is required for my major and yes your reasoning was the same as mine for the deviation of the class scores. This sentence verifies that you are not an english major.
Stick with the really hard math problems. Grammar is for nerds. Actually I just noticed another grammatical error in the first sentence. BTW: I was an animal science major. Waaaay more useless. |
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I am in a upper math class at my college. I took the midterm the other day and the average for the entire group taking the midterm was somewhere around a 65%. I got 10% more than the class average thus a 75%. I anticipated that my grade was going to be worse than it was, because of how hard the class was. I found the roughly 10% of the class was under 30 points, 10% over night, 20% above 30%<75%, and the rest above 75% < 90%. Just curious what I should make of this? The class had roughly 1000 people in all the various sections. LOL WUT? Is that English, or fancy upper math class talk? 100 people had less than a 30 on the test 200 had between 30 and 74 600 were between 75 and 89 100 people had a 90 or better Isn't that a pretty standard bell curve? Honestly curious as I'm not a math whiz. |
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Sounds to me like you need to party more. YMMV Haha good to see you in GD buddy get all your paper work taken care of? I probably actually should but this first term at least I am focusing on studies and seeing how it goes. It should be all done by Thursday. Silly schedules on their end.
Don't feel bad about the lack of partying - I spend about 4 hours doing homework this Friday night. I hear yeah there average about 8-10 hours a day for home work and 2-3 for on campus class. Not as bad as the girl I know in engineering. SHe has classes from 8-2 and does home work from 2 until usually midnight. |