D for Effort in Honors Physics

hyunsook
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:53:02 +0000

@whartonwannabe
Er yeah actually the freaking out and blanking only occurs on physics tests and Math if I haven’t studied for it. But usually the classwork=hw=test. So I’m usually good to go.

I’m not sure if this is true but my general gut instinct kind of says I have to be extremely anal with physics which I can’t be because I get lazy. Then I don’t account for stuff or sometimes overthink problems because of panicking.

Like last test I understood the concepts nearly perfectly (8 out of 10 tricky conceptual problems basically no math), but I focused my energies on rocket problems and rain falling at some angle toward a moving care, problems which I learned the day before were clearly not going to be on the test. Not knowing what to do I just didn’t do much besides solve more problems.

Test/Quiz grades last quarter: 84, 62, 64, 79 (Kinematics test). I mean there was a 15 point improvement… eh not good enough. Class average was a 70 which means some people are still failing the other section’s average was a 76. However after curving (which I have no idea how this happens), there’s only one D and that person clearly failed with like a 45.