Phopojijo
December 18th, 2007, 08:37 PM
Had an exam today, as per thread title. (Lagrangian/Hamiltonian Mechanics)
It's a graduate level course that they brought down to 3rd year to reshuffle some crap around... make quantum flow nicer into the mix of things.
To compensate for the difficulty of the course -- they let us bring in our textbook and 3 pages of self-written notes.
I filled up half a page (IE: one full side) with formula and did practice problems from the textbook and put the solutions on the formula sheet -- one from as many sections as possible -- to show myself application of said formula in case I panic. (I emailed the prof to make sure that was okay -- he said "Just be careful, practice problems take up a *LOT* of room")
Turns out...
When he made the exam -- he *used* questions from the textbook.
Of 8 questions, *2* were on my formula sheet and another was just plain a gimme to ease us in.
Even funnier? We only needed to do 4 questions of the 8.
So I, quite literally, had 50% of the exam answered on my equation sheet and 25% done within 15 minutes by hand and I needed to only do *1 of any remaining 5 questions*. Last question I did was relativistic mechanics -- that was hard but I think I done it well.
I was the first one out.
It's a graduate level course that they brought down to 3rd year to reshuffle some crap around... make quantum flow nicer into the mix of things.
To compensate for the difficulty of the course -- they let us bring in our textbook and 3 pages of self-written notes.
I filled up half a page (IE: one full side) with formula and did practice problems from the textbook and put the solutions on the formula sheet -- one from as many sections as possible -- to show myself application of said formula in case I panic. (I emailed the prof to make sure that was okay -- he said "Just be careful, practice problems take up a *LOT* of room")
Turns out...
When he made the exam -- he *used* questions from the textbook.
Of 8 questions, *2* were on my formula sheet and another was just plain a gimme to ease us in.
Even funnier? We only needed to do 4 questions of the 8.
So I, quite literally, had 50% of the exam answered on my equation sheet and 25% done within 15 minutes by hand and I needed to only do *1 of any remaining 5 questions*. Last question I did was relativistic mechanics -- that was hard but I think I done it well.
I was the first one out.