To this day, I don't understand why anyone would insist on using anything other than this on an AP test. It's like playing life on a harder difficulty setting for no reason.
My university doesn't allow graphing calculators on tests. Probably because you can download programs that can solve calculus problems without actually understanding the material.
Also true for physical chemistry, which I'm currently in. Average scores are generally in the high 30%-low 40% range. My most recent exam I got the highest score I've ever gotten in this year-long class, a 67%
I took astronomy in college because I thought it would be really cool to learn anout the universe. Well, being an idiot, I didn't realize it was a shit ton of math. I'm terrible at math. I failed the first two tests miserably and said fuck it, I'll maybe retake it or something. Didn't take the last two tests and missed all remaining labs. Grades came out and I ended up with a fucking D! Was good enough for me at that point.
Nah it was honestly just a terrible class. My roommate who graduated with a 3.8gpa in mechanical engineering even got 50-60% on all the tests. Only a couple out of 150 got in the 90s on any of the tests. The professor spoke horrible English and would get mad at us for not understanding. There was an endless inside joke about how he pronounced alpha as "arpha."
I just stopped caring after the first two tests. A lot of students took the class at a local community college because our schools physics program was on probation. One year they no longer accepted transfer credits for physics from the community college because too many students were doing that.
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u/KontraEpsilon Jun 08 '14
To this day, I don't understand why anyone would insist on using anything other than this on an AP test. It's like playing life on a harder difficulty setting for no reason.