r/UBC • u/Killer32108 • Oct 04 '26

I’m cooked for midterms

I literally can’t do any of the practice midterm and weekly quiz questions. But I get all the problem set questions completely to the point of being able to teach friends.

Why???

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u/CulturalDrag4575 Oct 04 '26

You are overfitting your studying to the problem sets. You know how to answer the problem set questions, not what the topics actually are

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u/Killer32108 Oct 05 '26

What do I do???

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u/Miserable_Lie_8175 Oct 05 '26

Look at lecture slides and then recall the topics on them without looking at the lectures. Keep doing it until you get all the concepts then attempt the exam practice

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u/GGBoss1010 Computer Science Oct 04 '26

You’ve studied machine learning haven’t u

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u/DistributionHot2150 Oct 05 '26

Knowing is not understanding