<p>wow not accounting for the 90% ionic costed me freaking 20 points of the 100.. wow pretty much bombed my first midterm in college... and it wasnt even a hard one... super harsh grading ><</p>
<p>I'm sure I got one of my 5 questions on my math midterm wrong :[ That puts me at like a B- w/o a curve :[</p>
<p>it only cost you 20 points zero? i cost me 35 plus i got 40 more off because i added one electron on the third question and somehow i just managed to f up adding up the molar mass on the first one and screwed that one up.</p>
<p>is it even possible to recover and get a b or better if i got 25/100 on midterm thats 20% of my grade?</p>
<p>Have you seen the curve for the class? Maybe the 25/100 is a C?</p>
<p>no i havent seen the curve, he said he'd be curving it at the end of the quarter though and the average was like 60</p>
<p>Oh I am sorry. I was pretty dizzy (exercise + lack of food prior to exercising) and I meant to say what was the curve on the test?</p>
<p>You said 60 was the average, so ouch...</p>
<p>ya i know its "ouch" i'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with chem20a and if its not too out of reach to still get a b</p>
<p>also, does anyone know how curves typically work in these classes?</p>
<p>It's dependent on firstly how well your peers perform relative to how you performed and then secondly, on how generous your professor is with the curve. For instance, I had a professor named Gibson for LS-1 who included those who performed poorly on exams and later dropped the course for the curve. He was firm about passing students and moving them along instead of failing them unless the student messed up or didn't care enough to at least perform "average." I had a generous curve in Miech for math and ended up with a higher grade than I expected.</p>
<p>ouch that really sucks ><</p>
<p>the average was a 65 and yea he isnt curving until the end of the quarter
i think u need to do very well on everything else in the rest of the quarter and ull have a chance at a B, but i cant be sure cause its like mme-lin said, it depends on how the prof curves it</p>
<p>I'm in sorta the same boat with my Physics 1AH midterm. I realized I plugged in force instead of acceleration 15 seconds before the teacher grabbed my test. Obviously, I wasn't able to change all of it.</p>
<p>You shouldn't lose too many points for that, if your error was arithmetic or a variable mistake .</p>
<p>Man if the 90% thing is 20 points off, I'm screwed... If it was like 5 off, I'd get an 80% or so by my estimate.</p>
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<p>You can just rough estimate your grades yourself along the way if he gives you the average and SD...</p>
<p>yea avg 65, dunno about the sd</p>
<p>man im still so upset that i missed that factor of 0.9^2 and lost 20points... whats even worse is i checked my practice problems with 2 of my friends, and we all made the same mistake on the practice problems
HOWEVER one of the 2 friends had chem discussion just before the test and learned of our mistake... he was trying to tell my friend and me, but he started by talking about dipole moments so i was like huh... and if i wud have just listened to what he was saying... i wudnt have lost that 20% AHHHH</p>