Wait what, open note test?

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<p>I had my final for my Petroleum Engineering 206 class today. I havent been doing so good in that class, it's at 8 am on Tuesdays, and I'm such a heavy sleeper that sometimes I just sleep through my alarm clock.</p>

<p>It breaks down like this:
% of course grade:</p>

<p>30%- homework and quizzes-surprisingly there was no homework, and i only made it to 2 or 3 quizzes, bombed 1, and did ok on the other ones, there werent that many quizzes to my knowledge.
30%-Midterm test- I got a 66% on that, this teacher likes to put seemingly random irrelevant questions in his tests.</p>

<p>40%-Final test-And here's where the story begins:
So, I missed last week's class, and missed the "briefing" so to speak, for the final. luckily a buddy of mine in the class filled me in on the details. I stayed up all night studying, ONLY TO GO TO CLASS AND FIND OUT ITS AN OPEN NOTE TEST. I'm the kinda guy who likes to go to finals with nothing but the clothes on my back and a pen, so I didn't have my notes.</p>

<p>I thought I did alright, I rougly calculated about an 80%, but after getting back to my room, I looked at my notes and realized that I had got more of the questions wrong than I thought. I didn't get a chance to talk to the instructor, but I emailed him, asking if he could possibly grant me some extra credit, since I did the test entirely on memory, while the rest of the class did it with their notes.</p>

<p>It's only a 1 credit class, so it's not really a biggie if i fail, I'll be lucky to pull a D though.</p>

<p>Please, save your "not-going-to-class" flame posts.</p>

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<p>Work ,as an engineer, is done “open notes”. No one wants to spend millions, billions or even a few thousand dollars on something done from memory. The professor was giving you a taste of the real world. Are you going to tell your boss, and you will have one, that you ignored his/her directives and want extra pay for doing so? Sounds like you just got fired.</p>

<p>Learn and do better. Being a “real world” professional means knowing what you have to do and getting it done in a timely manner in accord with directions from superiors.</p>

<p>Please imagine that I have added appropriate and meaningful personal insults.LOL</p>

<p>Did you like learning the material in the course? Could you deal with similiar concepts every day of your working life for 30 to 40 years? Those are the qustions that short survey courses are really there to address.</p>

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<p>Well to be honest, I really didn’t expect it to be open note. Based on previous classes i have taken with this professor, none of the tests I have taken in any of his classes have been open note, the same way with the other teachers in the petroleum eng. department.</p>

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<p>I mean…I don’t see why your professor would give you extra credit on the final exam if you haven’t even showed up for most of the quizzes…</p>

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<p>if you’re not going to go to a class… you shouldn’t take it. Not a flame, just the truth. It’s a waste of your [parents] money.</p>

<p>Sign up for something that you want to go to instead.</p>

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<p>Well you sure as **** don’t deserve extra credit. If anything you demonstrated your lack of attention to his specific directions, and would deserve a PENALTY.</p>

<p>Be glad you got what you did and pay more attention next time.</p>

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<p>O that was you in class, lol</p>

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<p>You go to UAF?</p>

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<p>joking -.-</p>

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<p>Your “buddy” was kind of a tool if he didn’t tell you it was open note…</p>

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<p>lol ya …your buddy must have forgotten that minor detail
xD</p>

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<p>I agree with BigG. You have to learn to show up and if you don’t, you deserve what you get. Since you didn’t attend class and thus didn’t find out about the “open notes” aspect of the class, you deserve what you get for a score.<br>
If I was your prof I would think about dinging you a few points for being so arrogant to even think that that was a reason to get extra credit. My, you sure have a sense of entitlement.<br>
Oh well; pretty soon you’ll be out in the workplace and if you pull a stunt like this you’ll have to use a pry bar to lever your bosses boot out of your b*tt.</p>

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<p>Ya know, this is why I don’t post much on forums, I go looking for advice, and I just get flamed.</p>

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<p>You did get advice: attend class next time.</p>

<p>You asked for people’s opinions; now you’re complaining? Don’t be so sensitive.</p>

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<p>What do you expect? You skipped class, and expect that to be a valid excuse. When I miss class, especially near test time, I go up to the professor and I find from them what I missed and need to know, and not rely on someone else in the class, since they might forget to tell me something like the final is open notes.</p>

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<p>How are you getting flamed? Nobody attacked you with pointy pixels.</p>

<p>That said, if you don’t show up, expect to accept the consequences. Secondly, even if you had shown up to class every single day, yet still somehow missed the “open note” comment or just forgot your notes or just didn’t feel like bringing your notes, how on Earth do you figure that you’re entitled to extra credit for that? Extra credit usually implies…doing something extra to gain the credit.</p>

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<p>Oh boo hoo. How could any of us have possibly given you advice when you didn’t ask a single question in your post? And maybe people only replied the way they did due to your arrogant idea that you somehow were possibly entitled to extra credit for taking the test from memory (the wrong way) as if that were something to be proud of and rewarded.</p>

<p>In the real working world, no one gives a **** that you can do something from memory - especially when it is easier and less error-prone not to. Hell, you’d probably be scolded for not following directions and taking a more error-prone course of action. If I was your professor and you sent me that email I would have docked you points, for clearly not paying attention or attending class, as well as thinking that taking a test in a more difficult fashion when you don’t have to is some kind of accomplishment.</p>

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<p>And what advice were you expecting to get? You made an error as a result of your own actions, one for which no remedial course exists. All you can do is take the grade and live with it. That people are pointing out as much and you’re reacting so negatively to it reflects even more poorly on you.</p>

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<p>juice,
You are getting excellent advice. You don’t seen willing to take it.
Apparently you are looking for unearned validation.
This is definitely the wrong forum for that. LOL</p>

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<p>Well, to change the tune a little bit, it may have been better to contact your professor with your question face-to-face.</p>