<p>Anyone do this? Does it fill one with some sort of pride? I know the replies will just be like, “idk im just like so fast not sure why” but is the connotation supposed to be that you’re intelligent, because it takes kids with learning disabilities a long time to take exams? Does it cause you to receive admiration of friends and colleagues? j/w.</p>
<p>The only time I’ve done it is when I’ve barely studied and the exam was hard. If you barely study and the exam is easy, you can still spend time trying to weasel your way through multiple choice, if applicable. Say, if I study, but not super-hard with the rote memorization, the information is hiding in my brain somewhere, and it might take me a few minutes to remember something.</p>
<p>I fly through tests. I’m a very fast reader, and to be honest don’t care about my grades, just the material. As a result, I get through the test quickly, and also don’t check my work most of the time.</p>
<p>Yeah but like, what else are you going to do? You finish the exam in 10 minutes, you officially have 40-odd minutes to do nothing.</p>
<p>I read, or I think.</p>
<p>Why do you even worry about this?</p>
<p>I check over my answers like 5 times. I think finishing really early and getting up to hand the test in is a poor decision. You don’t check your answers and don’t have time to think about a few problems that bug you.</p>
<p>I don’t think teachers judge you based on how fast you turn in tests. They judge you based on your grades.</p>
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<p>Before a final, I overheard two nerds egging each other on about whomever finishes the test last owes the other a such and such, a drink or whatever. I am wondering if this is a legitimately recognized means of nerd competition, because of the implication that finishing quickly means you are intelligent, and the undergrad fixation with understating the amount of effort one puts into his studies.</p>
<p>It’s basically an anthropological curiosity. I can’t see how anyone who finishes an exam absurdly quickly doesn’t do so to impress himself or others, but I wonder if those others are, you know, impressed?</p>
<p>Yeah, I finish tests quickly. The reason I prefer not to check my work is that I tend to change my answers from the right answer to the wrong one, or not catch a stupid mistake even when I check it.
It’s just a point of pride.</p>
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<p>The thing is, I almost think it’s rude to finish an exam so absurdly quickly. Quickly is okay, but at a point it becomes absurd, like if done in such a short time that any written section would have to have been done sloppily…</p>
<p>If anyone is offended by the speed at which I take an exam, then I don’t think I really give a damn about what that person thinks.</p>
<p>its a pretty moronic way to take tests, but whatever</p>
<p>I take the test, 1st time usually methodical, highlight tough questions, go back everything a second time, extra hard look at tough questions, and I am done.</p>
<p>Yes, my friend and I bet on who would finish our orgo exams first (and who would have the higher score, the class high, etc.) ALL THE TIME. It’s rarely money though. My favorite was making the loser wear a T-shirt with anything the winner wants on it (a duct-taped hot dog, a picture of me, various embarrassing words and phrases…) for a day. One time I became a girl’s slave for a day, which was less exciting than it sounds by a marginal amount. Oh well.</p>
<p>pancakes, do you and your friends also study constantly, and then understate the amount of time you spend studying because it makes you appear to be a genius?</p>
<p>no,
no.</p>
<p>i don’t really understand your fixation, questions, or point of view, but that’s ok. i don’t mind. although if you want to make yourself crystal clear, i could probably give you a more satisfying (to you) response. you’d have to be very specific with regards to both the type of answer you desire and the specific information you want.</p>
<p>i can answer part of your question:</p>
<p>with regards to students: it causes jealousy, envy, resentment, frustration, and anger, often visibly (and aurally–i’ve been sworn at before by premeds) among the majority of students. it generates respect among the majority of the remainder, and the rest don’t care (as far as i can tell).</p>
<p>with regards to teachers: based on my experience proctoring and taking exams, it gains a marginal amount of respect among teachers or gsis, but not a great amount.</p>