Ah yes, this is the first round of actual college finals for me. Today I had both Computer Science and Political Thinking finals today. Doing absolutely no studying for the Computer Science final, I did an outstanding job at finishing the 100 [ridiculous] question exam in 660 seconds, or 11 minutes. My original goal was to finish in 1000 seconds, or 16.66 minutes, but I never really took into account the amount of duplicate questions. And no, Jackie (the instructor) doesn’t have the capacity to put in trick questions that are worded with slight differences that turn the meaning backwards. Nope. She had the exact same questions repeating over and over in different places in the test–probably to make it look like it was unintentional. And yes, there were a few Google questions on there. I really wish I had a copy of the exam so I could word everything verbatim, but when you are doing 6.6 seconds per question, it is quite hard to remember the questions verbatim. Here are a few common questions that kept coming up:
The following is an example of a search engine:
a) Newspaper
b) CPU - Central Processing Unit
c) Google
d) HTML
e) ARPANET
or
Something that specifically tells the program what to do is called a(n):
a) bug
b) implementation
c) instruction
d) remote
e) calculator
and so on… I’m pretty sure the latter question was repeated at least five times in the exact wording.
On the subject of the Political Science final, I had a large gap from 11:11 AM to 2:00 PM, so I studied a bit, walked around for a while, studied a bit more, walked a bit more, until it was time for my doom. This final required two blue books, and the subject matter was not discussed at all in the lecture, so we had to know everything about everyone we studied. Luckily for me, I articulated Aristotle and Plato while writing my 9 page paper last week, so I had a decent amount of knowledge on the roots of political thinking. Anyway, unlike the CS final, it took me nearly the entire allotted two hours to write about both prompts. But, in the end I managed to survive, though I actually had a better feeling on this final than on the midterm, on which I got a 95%. Assuming I get at least 85% on my paper, I will need to get 70% or better on the final to get a B. The rest is up for speculation I suppose.
Now I only have three midterms left. Whee.
I hope this was an intro CS class…something tells me it’s not though.
Oh it is definitely a CS 101. See this post for what the class was like.
Heh, wow that is incredible.
Wow. That CS final sounds familiar. Except I remember *thinking* it would be that easy (it wasn’t)…and blew off the class for snowboarding and sleeping more days than I prob should of…oh yeah…I was proud to get a “D”. whoops.