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@BadFox it was a calculus exam.So all my studying involved learning and practising examples.You had to memorize some formulas and stuff.but most of it was practising.
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Studying and memorizing doesn't work at all in math, if you can understand what are you reading you can see the exercises as an algorithm and then they become repetitive and easy, the same thing happen on vectorial, differential and the many horrible things that are beyond calculus. The best advice I could give to you is understand what are you doing and keep your mind relaxed, don't bother to study and waste all your time in that
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Sometimes confidence is misplaced if you genuinely didn't "get" what the paper was asking you to do.
A few friends and I once sat a notoriously hard module exam at uni. We all came out pretty much despairing - aside from one guy, who said he was pretty confident that was his best exam yet.
He got 0.
0%. No marks. Nada. The rest of us didn't do *fantastically*, but we all got more than half marks, so...
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So you know when you write an exam.You studied your ass off every day for the last 4 weeks .You see the questions and you like hey I can do like 80-90% stuff.You do the paper.You smile while handing it in
You leave.
Then,you wait.Confidently.In your mind thinking "hey don't fear the maths calculus paper was nice"
You recieve your marks after 2 weeks
You check it,and your heart COMPLETELY SINKS.How on living earth did I get 40%
Idk what it might be, insufficient studying(maybe revising the syllabus three damn times in 4 weeks wasn't enough).or stupid mistakes.or just the fact that it maths(calculus).This is the mid year so this mark doesn't determine if I pass or fail.
I need help,like serious help.I've kind of lost hope right now.If I talk to my parents their only solution is to study more(which clearly isn't doing the trick for the past 3 years in the same course)
I don't know anymore.I just dont.
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