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Heilsqauvador said:
On a side note... My professor said the EM 324 exam is going to be 2 combined loading problems and one column buckling problem. No statically indeterminate problems.
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Thank you. I heard zack say that as well, but you just never know. The trick with the column problems is finding the right "I" and using the correct length.

This test still makes me nervous, probably cause I don't know how the overall grade is going to turn out.
 
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Goothrey said:
Thank you. I heard zack say that as well, but you just never know. The trick with the column problems is finding the right "I" and using the correct length.

This test still makes me nervous.
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I'm not too worried... For combined loading you just have to be careful with your initial calculations of I, Q, Area, moments, ect.

If a combined loading problem is going to have torsion it will be circular, you know the drill...
 
My professor (Hong Wei) just sent out an email saying that only material from chapter 15 and 16 will be covered. He didn't even cover his butt and say other things could still be tested... :twitcy:
 
As a quick bit of educational research, how many of you think that your final exams are an accurate reflection of what you know (and are likely to retain rather than just what you have memorized this week and will probably forget soon)?

In other words, are you getting grades based on true competencies? Or just for regurgitating the right stuff that you memorized?
 
Cycsk said:
As a quick bit of educational research, how many of you think that your final exams are an accurate reflection of what you know (and are likely to retain rather than just what you have memorized this week and will probably forget soon)?

In other words, are you getting grades based on true competencies? Or just for regurgitating the right stuff that you memorized?
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I'd say for me, as a whole... It's 50/50
 
Cycsk said:
As a quick bit of educational research, how many of you think that your final exams are an accurate reflection of what you know (and are likely to retain rather than just what you have memorized this week and will probably forget soon)?

In other words, are you getting grades based on true competencies? Or just for regurgitating the right stuff that you memorized?
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this..i remember some stuff but if i had to take these tests again a week later id bomb them
 
Took RELG 210 this morning with Northway. Quite easy. Got FSHN 403 and 351 on Thursday and Friday.
 
still got quite a bit left between now and graduation friday.

ACCT 383- tomorrow
SOC 219 and POLS 241 - Thursday
"optional final" FIN 462 - Friday

The accounting final is the only real pain in my arse
 
383 with Denison or Ravenscroft?

And I honestly couldn't tell you squat about what has been on most of my finals during college. The ones I remember well however have been exams where I've been able to take a page of notes in with me for. Just reading something won't digest it completely in my mind, but when I'm going through notes and then writing them down I tend to retain the material better.

A couple professors I've had actually have the note sheets for exams for that sole reason. They just hope by writing the stuff down one more time you retain a little more of it.
 
Cycsk said:
As a quick bit of educational research, how many of you think that your final exams are an accurate reflection of what you know (and are likely to retain rather than just what you have memorized this week and will probably forget soon)?

In other words, are you getting grades based on true competencies? Or just for regurgitating the right stuff that you memorized?
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Depends on the course. Some professors love testing on random protocols/equations and seeing how much you've memorized about very specific things that you'll probably have to reference anyway if you need to use it after you graduate.

Other professors like to test the core concepts you've learned over the semester. I really prefer take-home finals or open note finals. Mostly because they see how well you can explain your answers, and how successful you'll be applying the material in the real world. You know... the real world, where you can search and reference things as needed?

Surprisingly, I think my stat final on Thursday will probably be the latter...
 
longtimeclone said:
Was one of the harder finals I had in accounting. Probably didn't help that I had 2 finals on Friday and 383 was in the dreaded 12 to 2 time slot.
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I missed at least half of the material on the final and still got an 84% from Ravenscroft :biglaugh:. As long as you wrote something down, she'd give you 8 points on a 15 point question.

And you got out before Jon Perkins' reign of terror on tax accounting. At least now Murphy also teaches the class but they're both god awful and the grades they give show it. When you have multiple semesters where the class average is in the 50s, that's no longer a student problem and is a teaching problem.
 
IcSyU said:
383 with Denison or Ravenscroft?

And I honestly couldn't tell you squat about what has been on most of my finals during college. The ones I remember well however have been exams where I've been able to take a page of notes in with me for. Just reading something won't digest it completely in my mind, but when I'm going through notes and then writing them down I tend to retain the material better.

A couple professors I've had actually have the note sheets for exams for that sole reason. They just hope by writing the stuff down one more time you retain a little more of it.
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Ravenscroft. She lets us bring in a page of notes which is what I'm currently working on. You take the class? Remember if the final was rough or not?

I haven't done very well in the class purely because since I lined up my job I just haven't really done anything school wise haha. All I know is I need roughly 30-40% to pass!
 
justgetcy said:
Ravenscroft. She lets us bring in a page of notes which is what I'm currently working on. You take the class? Remember if the final was rough or not?

I haven't done very well in the class purely because since I lined up my job I just haven't really done anything school wise haha. All I know is I need roughly 30-40% to pass!
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Took it with her in the spring of 2010? I think and the final sucked. Unless it has changed since then, she just let Denison write the final and wished you the best of the luck taking it. My best advice: Write down complete BS even if you don't know the question. If you look like you tried to answer she'll give you half the points. Minimum.
 
IcSyU said:
I missed at least half of the material on the final and still got an 84% from Ravenscroft :biglaugh:. As long as you wrote something down, she'd give you 8 points on a 15 point question.

And you got out before Jon Perkins' reign of terror on tax accounting. At least now Murphy also teaches the class but they're both god awful and the grades they give show it. When you have multiple semesters where the class average is in the 50s, that's no longer a student problem and is a teaching problem.
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I think Denison may have changed her testing style but our final was comphrensive and was open book. I always marveled that she knew how long it should take students to finish her test. She told the class that if you were seriously taking the test it would take 1 hour and 45 minutes. Sure enough the first person was done exactly at that time. That is the only final I remember using the entire time to take the test and rushing through it.

I am pretty sure that Ravenscroft gives 90% of her students Bs or that is how it felt in government. At one point in the semester I accurately predicted a grade before even before I even started working on the project.

Yeah I had Gary for tax. I don't remember much from my tax final other than the M-3 schedule.
 
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