Tfw happy that I got a 60 on a Calculus 2 exam

I don't think you, or anyone, is a brainlet if they optimize their study habits to get the lowest possible passing grade (for the least amount of effort)

>Who else here brainlet?
>tfw happy studying CS

I got a B in Calc II even though 95% of class failed (not an exaggeration). No curve =[. Got an A in Calc 3 and A+ in diffy eqs

I'm a 10/10 female math phd student can you come to my office hours so I can suck you're cock?

W..where was that taken? I think I might know that dude.

hey user

can you share your Linear Algebra II curriculum?

i want to compare it with mine

I also understand IUT

same desu.
I'm in second semester and the only class I ever study for is Calculus II
The only class I studied for last semester was Calculus I

i am also in cal II but i think its mostly simple. so far the only thing in cal i have really struggled with was volumes of solids and the axis of rotation shit.

I'm a calc 2 TA and desu you're all the bane of my existence

I have a linear algebra exam the day after tomorrow. I'm gonna cram so fucking hard tomorrow.

Why are you a TA if you don't like it

Pros: Money, insurance, experience, easy work load
Cons: Shithead knowitall undergrads
I'm definitely not staying in academia

>tfw retard but excellent test taker
I got a 85 in my Cal 1 class and a 80 in my Cal 2 class but scored 5's on both AP Exams. My high school GPA was a 2.8 but my ACT score was a 35 so I got a full ride to my state school. My undergrad GPA was a 2.5 and my GRE scores were 170/168 5.5. You don't know what sort of hell this is - I don't fit in with the brainlets, nor the smarties. I constantly feel like I'm drowning and failing everything and have no idea if I'm smart or not.

getting 70s on all my tests
brainlet and proud

Allow me to suckle on your proverbial teat.

>think I did really well on exam
>get it back
>30 points off for getting part of a problem wrong
>no partial credit allowed even with the correct usage of equations

Everyone had their sights on the TA who graded it. Fucking pajeets

>turn in test knowing full well i just got a 100
>check grade today
>70

Is there a worse feel?

It's similar to being emotionally disemboweled.

> About to finish my degree in economics/econometrics
> Still have a year 1 subject I have to do that I forgot about doing
> Choose intro statistics class because for some reason the university doesn't consider high level econometrics as an anti-requisite for it
> just got my mark back
> 97

This isn't even America either, I'm an ausfag where there isn't that bullshit bell curving

>Get 93 on Calc II exam
>class average was 53
>tfw insecure about the class I'm taking because the questions felt like baby shit
>meanwhile make a C in my physics class over kinematics

not sure why youre hating. you will never live in a comfy thailand city so safe you can literally do this without a care in the world

yea there are bad parts of cities but a lot of thai cities are extraordinarily safe

calc 2 is a weedout class. professors intentionally make it very hard to discourage non serious math majors from going too far into math before realizing they dont want to do it

i dont understand the issues this board has with lin alg

whats difficult about it for you?

although i admit i learned a lot of it in physics courses before i took the actual class so that made it easier. still, it shouldnt be THAT hard. whatsyour guys majors?

>TA for the money
gave yourself away too easily

freshman physics is awful. i got a b in physics 1 despite later graduating with a 3.8gpa in physics

I dunno man I must be retarded then because I just dont know how to study for Lin II. Similarity is not to hard of a topic to grapple but when you factor in linear transformations from one bases to another, standard matrix, kernel range, and knowing a whole lot of proofs such as Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
. I dunno, I do well in every other math course its just Lin II in my university is really difficult. You have to be Asian to do good.

How much for the BRAPP?

>calc 2 is a weedout class. professors intentionally make it very hard to discourage non serious math majors from going too far into math before realizing they dont want to do it
I teach calc 2 and you're a retarded faggot. No, we don't write exams to weedout students, we write exams to test people's knowledge, and since calc 2 actually requires a minimum amount of ~real understanding~ most students do terrible.

In fact, it's half because calculus is taught in a poor way. In calc 1 they teach limits, then substitute all of that "hard" reasoning for derivatives, where students realize you can just do algebraic manipulations so they think all the limit shit is stupid

Move on to calc 2, and suddenly understanding limits actually matters, and all that information students disregarded becomes important again.

IMO half of the shit in the curriculum is useless and can be dropped. Like, we spent a week discussing surfaces/volumes of revolution, shit's mandatory. Why? It's goddamned pointless material and the students don't get it.

Even the smart ones I'm skeptical understand why obvious shit like the arc length formula makes sense.

>got a 72 on my discrete math midterm
>class average was 55
>tfw no curve
I was hoping to get my GPA up this term too...

C's get degrees except if you're a graduate student, then you're out of luck.

>38 on electronics

>professor bases curve off of highest score
>everyone fails except one Chinese kid who gets a 97
>I was second highest and got a 66
>TFW got a 69

I want to fucking do grad school

don't, it's hell

based Chinese kid, promoting radical grade inequality

then what am I supposed to do to set myself apart from the rest of the EE rabble? I already fucked up and got a B in digital systems, and I blow ass in programming.

Fellow EE here, does your university offer specializations.

>avg for calc 2 exams at my uni were in the 20s

Not But what do you mean specializations? Like a concentration in a degree subject?

iktf but since I changed my study habits Ive slowly been raising my GPA

Yeah, there's a lot of 4th year EE electives to choose from, I was thinking of taking classes in signal processing.

What did you do to change your study habits other than no fap or no porn?

i didnt no fap or no porn, but when I get really busy with studying i sometimes wont fap for days on end just because I cant afford to

and I didnt do anything in particular, just started never skipping class, listening in lecture best I could, and when it was time to study I outlined the textbook/lecture notes (if they were good) until I covered all the material. After this I would just do practice problems or old exams

Yes but more specifically a concentration that will actually show up on your diploma.

is calc bc the same as calc II? i passed with a 2 on the exam and a c in the class as a high school senior

I am already doing something similar to that though, if that fails I'll probably major in Computer Science or Actuary.

Stop being a little bitch and try harder.

Smart move, point is a specialization is really what sets apart in the marketplace. Its not the 70s anymore where an EE could do anything, now companies want to hire the power guy, the RF guy, the analog guy etc instead of just 15 EEs and give them a task.

>econ degree
>doesnt require a statistics class
Oh Australia, no wonder nobody outside your banished island can name a SINGLE uni there. Pathetic desu senpai, mirin' how few shitskins you have tho

>people scoring less than 90% in a freshman calculus class

Not trying to be a dick, but it's seriously just memorizing a few trig identities and exponent laws then problem solving with them. People who do poorly in calc 1-3 are lazy. There is no higher order thinking involved. It's not abstract. The proofs, which almost no one requires anyway, are intuitive

By intuitive I mean they can be understood geometrically. Not saying you'll "get it" right away, but with a good explanation and a little time anyone can understand fundamental theorem of calculus, epsilon-delta, etc

>t. not a brainlet

Wouldn't employers being able to see your transcript, and the courses you took be enough?

> the absolute shanty town of your reading comprehension

do you even know what econometrics is phaggot?

Maybe if you're at a completely shit school it's that easy.

>I teach calc 2
>you're a retarded faggot

if what youre saying was true, there wouldnt be shit on the tests like trig identities you wont ever use again in your undergrad, problems that require 5 minutes of manipulations before you can actually do the calculus and points taken off for not being autistically rigorous. That shit serves no purpose other than weeding out below great math students.

Contrast that with how ODE or calc 3 is taught. Almost no trickery, gets right down to the core concepts

I went into my Calc II final with like 98%. I knew I could choke on the final and still get an A. I ignored an entire section covered on the test and didn't get an A on it. Still got an A in the class. Got As in Calc I, II, and III. Usually Georgia State puts the names of all the students who get three As in the math department newspaper. They skipped it when I should have been in there (fuck you Valerie Miller.) Fast forward, do great on some other stuff. Same shit, they won't print my name in the good job list.
>mfw

Oh shit, dont go crazy user

>
IMO half of the shit in the curriculum is useless and can be dropped. Like, we spent a week discussing surfaces/volumes of revolution, shit's mandatory. Why? It's goddamned pointless material and the students don't get it.

Bc its useful for engineers and probably 60% of students in a calc2 course are engineering majors

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i did this throughout my entire physics undergrad :^)

my profs were usually disorganized retards too so more than once theyd start handing the tests back, say the highest score was a 70, then the class would breathe a sigh of relief, then "oops i guess i missed this one. the highest score is actually a 98" *hands test back to me, other students look angrily at me*

yes

not aus but i know sydney and melbourne both have unis

Take your meds, faggot

Had an ochem professor do this.

His final exam was, I believe, 13 pages. It was out of 500 points. Impossible to finish. The median percentage grade was around 30%

He did this on the midterm too. He made all the shitters drop, and if you stuck it to the end, and you scored average, you got at LEAST a B.

Best professor ever. I went on to take an honors class after him and I destroyed it because of how hard the previous professor made me work. Felt amazing

get ready for series big man

Have a complex analysis exam in 12 hours, what the fuck is this class.

FUCKING IMPLICIT DIFFERENTIATION ONLINE HOMEWORK DUE IN AN HOUR AND I'VE BEEN WORKING AT IT FOR TWO ALREADY AND ONLY HAVE 4/8 PROBLEMS DONE

cant you just use symbolab

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I dont do math and I dont remember my freshman year but isnt this calc 1? looks pretty easy desu, just do it

You're forgetting this is a brainlet thread user

Isn't implicit differentiation just using chain rule and power rule? Whats the issue?

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>46 on physics intermediate mechanics exam
>still 5 points above average

Am I brainlet or not

Just remember -1/12

>get 89.996 in physics class
> ask professor if she can bump me up to an A
>she gives a friendly smile
>chuckles and says no

Depends - you can also find dy/dx using partial derivatives, so it could be multi variable but finding the differential is even easier

Is CMU shit now? Stop making excuses for your mediocrity and laziness, user. There's no such thing as a difficult calc 2 course.

Fuck I know this fucking feel. Happened on my first 2 midterms this quarter. Just stupid small mistakes that fuck you over.

>tfw i got a job in a multinational as a software engineer

Brazil.

>tfw got a 60 on my pre-cal exam

I promise you my IQ isn't sub-130

Nevermind then

>Maths are so overrated
brainlet spotted

So are you.

I'm a PhD student.

>Bc its useful for engineers and probably 60% of students in a calc2 course are engineering majors
Oh, so we teach calc for engineers. Makes sense why it sucks.

My uni quarantines engineers though and we still teach that crap.

Same. Precalculus is garbage hodgepodge with no reason

No, but I've turned in a test expecting a D and got it back with 108% before.

My sequential digital logic(an EE course) professor. Given 4 hours and a quiet room I could get a 95% on his tests. The math is simple conceptually but something better suited for a computer. Be able to use Karnaugh maps, write a state transition function, memorize the tables for the various flip flops and latches and you've pretty much got it.

I gamed the system. I spent the first few minutes of the test time scanning the test. I estimated how long each problem would take to complete. Then I did them in order of their points per minute value. I got around 40% on my tests. I ended up with a B.

Literally how? Does nobody spend time preparing for this shit beforehand? Is no one aware that Calc II has a rep for fucking your shit up?

Why though?

>muh pajeet

He did the right thing you brainlet, you don't get marks for equations

>Got the perfect grade in LA, and calc I - III

>econometrics without statistics
>as if econometrics isn't a combination of econ and statistics
Do you have a separate department for econometrics courses? Why not just take pure stat classes and the econometrics courses as opposed to just doing the bare minimum and learning applications of the material.