QMA+Micro Midsession thoughts (1 Viewer)

[Minai]

How'd everyone find it?

I thought the Micro one was absolute bullshit - anyone with a half decent brain, who went thru the M/C from the textbook website would've scored almost full marks for that section, and similarly with Q2 of the short answers..I mean I dunno how many times I went thru Larry and Harry from the textbook...I think its not really a test of knowledge...

QMA was ok, I spent most of my time reducing the damn matrices (for me it takes a while)..

 

[aspect]

yeah micro wasnt too hard

truong should grow some creativity cells and stop stealing MC from text book website

 

[Ducky]

hey

yeh i found micro surprising...i was expecting the grief i felt during the quiz but nope! but still i think i lost marks..sigh..hehe

qma freaked me out at first! got a total mind blank...but then in the end i could do em..had to guess one tho.

kinda feels nice since Mids over...but then i think about the finals..ugh..and practice set..uuuuuuuuuuuuugh

 

[kaseita]

hm, I reckon I stuffed up the M/C. wasn't sure of a few, even though I realised that they were off the textbook website...but I went through them aaages ago.

rest of it was nothing...

lol, thinking of finals already?? I'll think bout that when it comes

 

[Minai]

I jus cant wait till micro is over
i think ill like macro better

qma..I had to guess like 3 in the end coz i had no damn time..

 

[Ducky]

Yeah, I was looking forward to macro coz i thought it would be more like high skewl stuff...but then my bro told me that macro is still full of graphs...i hate graphs!! ehhehe..

the finals are in like 6 weeks!! i can't help but think of them heh

 

[Bambul]

So the Micro midsession is still easy? It's probably Truong then. You guys should expect either a hard final or a final that is scaled down.

I like macro more than micro, but apparently I'm in the minority. 90% of macro was stuff I learn't in year 12 economics. I slept through most of the lectures, took few notes, didn't buy a textbook and barely studied for exams and came out with a final mark of 88%. For macro: if you can get into one of John Lodewijks's lectures (a seat is a luxury in those), then do so. He is one of the best lecturers I've had at uni.

 

[Minai]

Sounds like macro will be good =)

and Bambul - was last yr's micro final hard? did your final mark fluctuate much from your raw marks?

 

[kaseita]

ok, maybe I didn't stuff up the M/C - only lost a mark there...I must be turning paranoid :s

I hope macro is better...I really hate all these renaming of concepts to idiotic names...

would be nice to see a challenging final micro exam though, at least something that requires some thinking!

 

[Bambul]

Truong was the LIC last year and gave us an easy midsession and final. So they apparently just scaled us down because there's no way I (and the friends of mine that I asked) could have gotten marks that low for that final. It was way too easy for that.

 

[kini mini]

Looks like I stuffed them both...7.5/9 for micro and 18/20 for QMA. Oh well, just have to ace that final to get a HD I suppose. Do we get to see what we did wrong?

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by kini mini
Looks like I stuffed them both...7.5/9 for micro and 18/20 for QMA. Oh well, just have to ace that final to get a HD I suppose. Do we get to see what we did wrong?

I wouldn't call 18/20 a stuff up, its still a HD...but then again, by ur standards
Louis released the percentages for QMA - 49 ppl got a perfect score

and micro - ur tutor will go thru the MC's this week, and the extended responses nxt week, but no, u dont get to see where u went wrong..however u'll kno wat u got wrong wen they go thru it

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by MinAi

I wouldn't call 18/20 a stuff up, its still a HD...but then again, by ur standards
Louis released the percentages for QMA - 49 ppl got a perfect score

Argh I should have gotten 20 . Yeah, so it's a HD, but I mean 2 of those piss easy things...

and micro - ur tutor will go thru the MC's this week, and the extended responses nxt week, but no, u dont get to see where u went wrong..however u'll kno wat u got wrong wen they go thru it

Damn.

 

[Minai]

lol, dun worry, go for 65/65 for the finals!

oh yeah, Louis Yeung is a fool
he reckons the derivative of ln5x is 1/x
and more foolishly, no one spoke up! (yes im hypocritical here, but yeah..)

 

[kini mini]

Meaning the lecture is composed of people like you who can't be bothered (maybe one or two) and people who don't know what the hell is going on . Personally, I've stopped going to QMA lectures while they're teaching calculus. I really don't see the point.

 

[Ducky]

...what is the derivative of ln5x? it's not 1/x?

calculus was my weakest topic in high school...ugh the finals are gonna suucck!

 

[Minai]

hehe yeah u hit the nail on the head there kini mini,

judging from my lecture size...it resembles the number of ppl u'd find in a Yr7 maths class