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BobG said:This I don't understand. What's the goal of including these type of questions? Are they easy questions just to make sure the students are reading ahead instead of studying solely for the upcoming exam? Or are these really just questions solvable by what you've already learned, but just presented in a different environment that leads into what you're getting ready to study?
HeLiXe said:Well this was in calculus one, and I actually got the highest score on that exam, which was an "F". The questions on the exam were not essentially "hard," but we did not learn the material yet. We learned transcendental differentiation and she tested on that, but also included implicit differentiation, which was a couple of chapters ahead...so definitely not something we could have solved with what we learned. This is still a pattern in the class with exercises, and occasionally on exams, although not as drastic as the aforementioned exam. I have not asked her why she does this.
kraphysics said:One thing about him is that he is not a mean person. He helps people with questions and is generally pretty nice. It's just that his exams are brutal and the questions are completely different from what we studied. He insists on making questions that require "higher level thinking", whatever that means.
Chi Meson said:How many people right now are working on a "root-mean-square" joke?
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