My teacher hasn't gotten back to me

I'm surprised about it too. He was supposed to get back to me before the New Year so he could close this semesters grades. I guess I'll hear from him next week when classes start up again.

I'm really nervous about this assignment because he's not telling me what he wants me to study, so I pretty much have to study everything. That's going to be a killer because we had 14 chapters worth of information. And judging by the way he made his exams and homework assignments, I can't afford to think any chapter is less important than any other chapter.

Sigh. I'll just be glad when this is finally over.

School is done

Well, for the semester anyway. I took my final yesterday and that thing was unbelievably hard. He used questions from the first two exams as more than half of the questions. Some of my classmates only studied the answer "a", "b" etc. Well the professor had something special for them. He used the same question and answers, but he put them in a different order! Luckily for me, I studied the answers and not the letters.

However the new material was hard. It didn't help that we only had a week to learn 3 1/2 chapters. All I want for Christmas is a passing grade!

My final was extremely difficult

I'm not even exaggerating. I think someone ticked her off while she was writing the exam. We had 30 multiple choice questions and 5 long problems. We had to choose 3 of the 5 to do.

There was only 1 question from the last 2 classes. This was the information that I understood the most. Just figures right? There were 2 or 3 questions that I didn't have the fainest idea what the answer was. They were purely guesses.

Out of the 5 problems, there was 1 that I knew I was skipping as soon as I started it. I started another problem and I didn't like the way the answer was looking so I moved on. I wound up crossing that one off and doing the remaining 3.

The multiple choice was worth 90 points and the problems were only worth 60. I would feel much better if those numbers were reversed. I feel more confident in my answers to the problems than in my answers to those multiple choice questions. I knew the questions would be difficult because she told us she didn't like to use those anyway.

Now I just have to wait and see what grade I end up with. I hope I did well on my extra credit project. I need all of the points I can get.

Review sheet for my final exam

I just printed the review sheet for my final exam out. The professor lists the concepts that she suggests you concentrate on. Basically, if a concept is not on her review sheet then it won't be on the final.

She told us that half is multiple choice. The other half is questions/answers and problems. We should expect to have between 3 and 5 of these to choose from. Each question will have multiple parts. Each question may have 6-8 different answers. The first few will be short answer and the rest will involve calculations and graphs. Remember though, that's for each question and I will have 3-5 of them. The second part will be the equivalent of 4-5 quizzes. Each quiz takes about 20-30 minutes. So it should take 1 1/2 hours at least to finish.

It figures the teams I want to see will be playing this weekend when I'll be busy studying.