<p>okay well i just finished my first semester at umd college park...i was taking 14 units including chem/pysch/calc/honors seminar i was doing very well on my way to a 4.0 gpa with solid As in all my courses before finals...well i i get my final transcript back and it turns out i failed my math final which was enough to drop me down to a B! the worst part is i already had credit for both semesters of calc but retook the course to stregnthen my background and perhaps more importatnly for an easy A...now i am devastated....i understand that one B wont stop me from getting into med school but i jus feel like S*** is there any major benefits for getting a 4.0 instead of say a 3.9 or 3.95? am i just being a big baby? lol feel free to set me strait!</p>
<p>Good thing you are planning on medical school because you need some mediction. If you took it before how did you fail the final? Any idea?</p>
<p>i took calc bc and got a 5....i had a 97% average going into the final...the head of the math department actually wrote the final instead of our professor and instead of the plug n chug type problems that were given through out the year he gave difficult words problems that required acute problem solving...as well as annoying graphing problems...the class average on the final for my professor was a 36% and my professor refused to curve the test...instead he curved the overall grades which left me 5 pts short of my A!</p>
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<p>Sounds like a departmental final that your prof didn't prepare you for. I'll bet this has happened before. Too bad. I am surprised that nobody warned you. Did you ask around about the course/department before taking the course? Math departments are nortorious for departmental exams........which the profs don't teach to.</p>
<p>actaully i switched from 3 diff calc classes during the first 2 weeks of the semester so i did do my hw....the 4 calc 1 teachers all had the same final...so i just got f**** to put it bluntly...but i have accpeted it now im just wondering how much of difference willit make if say by some miracle i manage not to get anymore bs...would have been THAT much better if i could have some how avoided this b? i am probably going to get my final regraded</p>
<p>So of the 4 professorial options you evaluated three.......you knew the final was a departmental[same for all sections of the course] and you think you got reamed. You think that because the prof you had didn't prepare you?</p>
<p>yes our professor did not prepare us adequately for the final....even so ive always considered myself a comppetent mathemtician and even in light of poor preperation would have still expected to score higher than i did....so i am not placing the blame solely on my professor....</p>
<p>I am sure you are upset but this isn't going to keep you out of medical school. Better luck next semester.</p>