<p>No curve for the test. just that if you get 70 percent to 85 percent, that is a B. 85 percent or above is an A.</p>
<p>A D is from 45% to something else. I got in between that.</p>
<p>I tried going to office hours. It waasn’t what I was expecting. I was expecting like one on one time, but it turns out it is just 60 students crammed in a room firing unintelligible questions back and forth. It was a waste of time for me seeing as I was even more confused than i was before.</p>
<p>nah~ Don’t think about grades like that. Even if they have a straight scale, they scale things in the end so around 25~30% get As… as long as you did top 30% of the class, know that you’ll get an A in the end ^___^</p>
<p>No worries :D</p>
<p>“But make sure that you learn something from failing. It took getting a 60-something on an exam to kick my ass into 5th gear. Laying down and doing nothing about it is the worst possible thing you can do.” -calfootball</p>
<p>Yeah that’s definitely true! I learned something from failing my midterm. and Now i study a LOT. </p>
<p>@batman</p>
<p>lol i was got the worst in my class too but i didn’t really care honestly. There’s nothing i can do but study more. at least u had a good nap. i value sleep and my time to eat</p>
<p>haha Batman: did u take math 1a with olsson fall 08 too? you didnt score the lowest on that second midterm…</p>
<p>…you were ONE of the lowest. i scored 6/50 too-nearly **** my pants when i saw my score!!! high fiveeeee</p>
<p>“he midterm barely had anything to do with what they taught…”</p>
<p>are you guys serious when you say that? how do you prep for exams if they test you on what they dont teach you??? (im not in college yet)</p>
<p>Wow, a couple of my friends and some random people asked me for help on problems, which i did. Since i understood and since the saying is “if you can teach it, you know it”, I did help them.</p>
<p>And wow…they all get C+/B- on this stupid midterm. And I’m the one that fails. I hate when that happens…never again</p>
<p>Like they were literally clueless about the simplest concept…and i had to explain it to them a couple of times…omg.</p>
<p>I didn’t think that the midterm tested stuff that was never taught before. I actually did better on this midterm compared to the first one…lol. The only question that was too difficult was probably the one on autodissociation. I had no idea what was going on. The GSIs don’t even know which is the correct answer because there is more than one interpretation. This just comes to show that some stuff on the exam was ridiculous and not even the GSI had a positive and direct answer for these types of questions since they were absolutely weird. However, most stuff were just the right level of difficulty in my opinion. I thought that the first midterm was the worst one ever since it was my first Berkeley midterm, lol. Anyways, just try harder for the next exam. Like they said, the worst unit is over.</p>
<p>FYI: they adjusted the score I think. It might be due to a grading error like what happened on the last midterm. I just checked again and my score went up by a couple of points compared to the previous time I checked it today. Perhaps this will make the situation better for you.</p>
<p>Nope, my score stayed the same.</p>
<p>Yeah wut the eff. like I thought the same thing too for my midterm and then I was like…i’m probably wrong because we HAD to have learned this. But our prof (idk what class u were talkin about stevenboi) but our professor put problems on that we never even did in the homework or anything. Gahhh Now I have to figure out where they come from! Like i still don’t understand the solution part! : [ i’m gonna ask the gsi but it’s ridiculous</p>
<p>and to those who got like 6/50 or whatever, why do u think u got that grade? Like all i can think of for myself is …because I’m dumb. : ] lol</p>
<p>mm lol chem 1A?
wait till BIO1AL. the 2 unit class. </p>
<p>possibly going to epic fail the midterm tomorrow night…</p>
<p>Please don’t attempt to help people if you don’t know it yourself. That’s like trying to give directions when you don’t know the way. You are just going to get them lost.</p>
<p>lol wait now im kinda lost. cavilier, are you talking to me?</p>
<p>If you are talking to me, I did know the stuff. What came on the test had nothing to do with it and was incredibly harder.</p>
<p>I was talking to insertname. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>insertname, that’s fine I guess, but I wouldn’t take chances.</p>
<p>A year ago, I took a workload that I couldn’t handle: four technical upper-division classes, two of them project-based. Eventually, I started falling behind. In one of the courses, because of the work, I was still catching up on material for MT1 even when MT2 rolled by.</p>
<p>I tried and literally got a 3% on that midterm. The average was close to 65%. I’m an EECS major, and at that point, my GPA was in the 3s, so it’s not like I routinely get stuff like this.</p>
<p>For me, it was simple. I just uttered an expletive and retook the class during the following summer. This was despite:</p>
<ul>
<li>Because of the D- I ended up getting in that class, my GPA fell below the 3.0 and I lost eligibility to several financial aid sources that I needed.</li>
<li>It ended my eligibility to do a simultaneous degree in math. I wanted to do it at that point and tried for the next semester before I thought long and hard and figured that I’ll just take the minor and have time to take courses that I’m truly ultra-passionate about.</li>
<li>With the exception of a high school AP English class, I had never gotten anything below a B by that point.</li>
</ul>
<p>woah. that’s nuts. hmm…i’m basically with u though lol. I got a…oh wait nvm. sorry i guess i got 30% on my midterm. but that still kind of is a bummer. : / It’s hard. I thought you can do anything with your life once you get to Berkeley and follow your dreams…but I guess not. : / I should’ve just gone to community lol jk</p>
<p>A way to avoid what excelblue is describing:
… this semester, I started off by signing up for 7 classes. I did work for each of them for 2 weeks. And when it came around to the add/drop deadline, I just dropped the classes I didn’t want to take.</p>
<p>What I learned:
It’s okay to sign up for as many classes as you’d like, as long as you are prepared to do the work for it at first. And before the add/drop deadline, drop the ones you think you can’t handle 
This way, you don’t have any regrets etc. And you’ll know which classes you like better and just how much you can handle.</p>
<p>Remember to factor in the fact that the first couple weeks tend to be lighter since there’s less hw/midterms/proj :)</p>
<p>^ You’re the type of person that puts extra stress on people who are on the waitlist and actually want to take the class and eventually drop for another only to find that you just dropped. >.></p>
<p>^ I only ended up dropping 2 classes, one class, about 50% of the class dropped cause it was that bad… the other class was CS70, which I signed up for adjustment phase. </p>
<p>Anyways, if those stressed people wanted the class enough, they would have just stayed on the waiting list… o<strong>O I dropped 2 weeks in, which was before the add drop deadline… so the determined people still had spots o</strong>O</p>