st8ic Posted October 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Original poster here, just wanted to say that I've trumped last year's midterm failure extravaganza by getting a 44% on a second-year calculus midterm. Just reaching down and giving the bottom of the barrel a good old scrape now.... Record for this thread is still 15% on a biochem midterm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylamonkey Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Once upon a time, way back in 1998, I got 10% in a whole course. And that, my friends, is how you can screw your chances of getting in forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apixaban85 Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 72% on a Health Studies, A-level course...tied with 72% in Calculus I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosuperman Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Probably low 60's on a physics midterm. Class average (for midterm and final) was 40's. I had a friend in the class who got a C+ in it. He's now in 4th year meds at UWO making his way through the CaRMS process so don't worry about a couple bad marks! Also 72% is highly recoverable. Presumably you still have a major lab component and then the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in2bat0r Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 First physics midterm 48%, got so pissed off at myself, studied like hell and pulled 98% on the second one. A bad midterm gives you the worst feeling especially if you studied your ass off. You have to learn how to focus that feeling into midterm slaying potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apixaban85 Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 First physics midterm 48%, got so pissed off at myself, studied like hell and pulled 98% on the second one. A bad midterm gives you the worst feeling especially if you studied your ass off. You have to learn how to focus that feeling into midterm slaying potential. Very, very true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryacha Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 38% on statistics, I beat the average by 6%. Yay SFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pininkid Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 I'm thinking I'll fall in the 70% range for my organic II midterm, which would qualify as my worst. 25% of my final grade. Made a lot of stupid mistakes... that's the worst feeling IMO, when you know the gist of something but could have used just a bit. More. Studying. ...to drive the concept home. Other than that, I got a 48% on a complex analysis (calculus with imaginary numbers) midterm once, but that doesn't count because the class average was in the low 20's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apache Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 C- on my first paper... midterm was prob 62, but the class average was 58... i tended to go into finals with great marks and have them go down a bit so im sure i have a few low finals, i went into physics 2 and chem 2, with A+'s and came out with a B+ and A-, so I must ****ted those exams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superconnected Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 I got a 52 on midterm in analytical chemistry at UBC. Luckily that midterm was only worth 15% and I pulled out an A in the course in the end. Much more painful was biochemistry. Getting a 62 on a midterm that's worth 50% definitely hurt. I have loads of midterms in the 70-80 range though. I find if I get a marginally unsatisfactory mark on a midterm I am much more motivated to study for the final and -somewhat paradoxically - I actually tend to do better in those courses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incepted Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 I remember getting a 44% in organic chemistry 2. OUCH! I hate orgo:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind_synergy Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Tie b/w 84% in genetics and 84% in intro to algebra (i.e. complex roots, GCD and other algorthms, linear diophantine systems, congruencies, intro to cryptography, etc...) and proofs. Only in my second year, though, and Waterloo is very fair when it comes to tests (class average almost always falls between 60 and 75).I tend to drop a little bit on exams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaplin Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 38% on statistics, I beat the average by 6%. Yay SFU. Is that STAT 201 with Scott Pai?? Just got a 74% on a midterm i spent so hard studying for. Class average 70 .. seriously considering commiting a seppuku.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanInVan Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 I got a 61% on a midterm in plant development....class average was about 85%. No clue what happened there. I was in 4th year and that midterm was the easiest thing - for everyone else. I seemed to be unable to differentiate a root from a shoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOC_Ma Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Whatever I get on the first med school exam will be my lowest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind_synergy Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Tie b/w 84% in genetics and 84% in intro to algebra (i.e. complex roots, GCD and other algorthms, linear diophantine systems, congruencies, intro to cryptography, etc...) and proofs. Only in my second year, though, and Waterloo is very fair when it comes to tests (class average almost always falls between 60 and 75).I tend to drop a little bit on exams. Oh, actually just remembered a 75% in first year chem on my first midterm (ever). Wasn't weighted much, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pininkid Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Well, 78% in organic chemistry II (this just in!). Not as bad as I'd feared, but still my worst mark to date (excluding low marks but with ridiculously low class averages). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAW Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 It's probably the time I got a 100%. I missed the frigging bonus question! Or else I always get 100+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dee Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 60% was my worst. I never thought I would get over it. However, when I got an A+ on my essay in another course, my spirits were boosted to the maximum. Do not give up. There are always bumps along the way. No one said it would be easy. It is not high school anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billypnats Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 From a fellow first year student... not really a midterm but I got C- on an essay ... oh well... not a big deal with Captain Morgan.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyGuy123 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 With a bottle of whiskey? +1 hahaha________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm88 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 A whopping 15% in Mass Transfer. The whole class failed, it was epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pininkid Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 +1 hahaha________ Rob and Bob are short for Robert like **** [EDIT: Interesting that "D i c k" was censored. What if there's some poor guy who's actually named that? Well I guess he'd be used to getting some flack for his name...] is short for Richard... what an odd, odd world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treejuice1 Posted November 2, 2010 Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 13.33% on a midterm for a course I ended up dropping, so I don't think that counts Otherwise, 63% in my second year genetics midterm, but I ended up with 83% for a final grade after pulling an all-nighter for the exam. It was all worth it in the end though I promised myself that I would never let that happen again and here I am, 66% on my biochem midterm. Here we go again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREA.tive Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 56% in Biology...looks like the end of the semester will be rough:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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