nope, i never gave up on an exam. i did give up on a class though. it was an online class that you had to push yourself to do. i need somebody to sit there and explain things. i thought the program was pretty bad because you needed to put in the precise answer.
Easy for you to say. I busted my ass at my pre-calc class in college this year and I barley passed the exams. I am talking I did practice problems about 2-3 hours every day and I barley pulled a C in the class.
I always try. I might acknowledge halfway through that I'm going to fail but that never stops me from trying to figure out the questions regardless. Of course, whenever there's an exam I always cram the night before like an idiot but that's worked somewhat well for me so...
There have been a few exams in college that I studied hard for, went to the exam, and it was super hard. In those situations I dont really give up on the exam, but I certainly alter my strategy mid-exam. I have never just blown an exam off though for any reason.
Seriously, dont NEVER try. I was exactly like you, i left my exams til last mintue, but my friend, theres a person here i should introduce to you. Mr Cram
Cram that shit, cram it all night long, even if your eyes close, cram.
Because I'm awful at college-level math there have been multiple times where I flat out just leave questions with minimal, superfluous formulas & such, pretending like I put effort in the question even though I know that I had no idea how to answer the question.
A bunch of times. For a long time, I was under the impression that I could do Math. I remember spending a good hour in a three-four hour exam in secondary school just doodling because I knew I was screwed. Worked out alright in the end, though.
You can always try to make the scantron have a sailboat pattern somehow.
Seeing that you're talking about physics and that some questions all you are given is the problem and a sheet of paper and you had to answer in an essay type format (ie, not multiple choice or fill in the blank), then yea I can see myself giving up if I wasn't prepared at all. At best I'd try to answer with what I know and see if I can tie it in somehow.
I gave up on pretty much all my end of year exams during my first year at University. Missed one because I didn't check the exam timetable until after my first exam and went into another and got literally zero, couldn't even attempt an answer at a single question. But that was more part of me giving up with where I was in life generally at that point. I'm at the end of my third year at new University now and haven't given up on any since, some have been absolute dicks as well.
My girlfriend told me she was so stressed out for one of her psychology exams and that she was giving up because she had no hope and she got like a 90 on it....
I'll be honest. It happened to me once, but never again. It was ages ago in my last year of high school though. Learned the lesson and became much more successful afterwards after swearing not to have that happen again. I was lucky to learn the lesson early.
A couple years ago during a final exam for a programming class I was taking I was asked to make two programs from scratch in Java (or was it PHP? Let's say Java for the sake of argument), and both were only slightly modified from other programs we had done already for homework several weeks ago. Of course, by that point I was coming off a caffeine buzz and had just finished a whole bunch of other final exams/projects for other classes that semester. I managed to get through the first program all right, but then when it came time to do the second, I wrote the first few lines defining a function and then my brain just kind of shut down. I couldn't remember at all how to do it. I stared at a mostly-blank page for awhile...then at some point I just freaked out and stormed out of the room, jogged to the student union, and fell asleep on a couch for an hour.
Somehow I managed to end that class with an A- grade. To this day I'm not sure if I deserved it, but in the end it does not matter, does it?
When I was at a school for engineering, I wanted to tear my hair out because I just couldn't understand it. I had a final exam and just did what I could and handed it in and never looked back. I promised myself after that time that I wouldn't try to get a job simply because the money was amazing. I needed to find something that I would love doing and I think I have.
I've never put myself in a position where I didn't know at least something before a test, so no I've never given up. Although, It would be interesting to compare the scores of someone who didn't study but tried and someone who just guessed.
I've had some exams where I thought I knew what I was getting into, but didn't have a clue once the exam was in front of me. I've had to give up on problems in exams, but I've never really thrown an entire exam out.
Never i have though fallen a sleep during a exam. I woke up 10 minutes later.
haha that also happened to me. I once snored and started drooling before being woken up by a nightmare. I ended up getting a pretty good great because of that power nap, despite the fact that may notes were unreadable thanks to the drool
Plenty of times. I tend to be very lazy when it comes to studying for exams. I keep my grades afloat with plenty of homework and aced papers and then blow off the final exam. Also, if I don't know the answer to a question immediately, I tend to leave it blank automatically. No sense in being the dipshit sitting in class ten minutes after dismissal rubbing his head angrily.
I've never given up to the point where I flat out skipped an exam, but I have gotten to that point where you're staring at a question knowing you have no idea how to solve it and just hand in a blank page on said question.
Back when I was a senior in high school, I took AP Macroeconomics and they did a sort of package deal where you could take the micro exam for free. So I went into an AP exam with nothing but a little crunchtime studying as far as micro knowledge went. By the time I got to the graph analysis at the end I had given up, so I wrote something threatening the grader that I would summon a hurricane to destroy his house if they gave me a 1. I got a 2.
Usually when i feel like I'm totally screwed on a test i just go through it and solve the ones i know how to do and then just take chances no the questions i have no clue on but i don't think anyone should just give up entirely.
Never i have though fallen a sleep during a exam. I woke up 10 minutes later.
haha that also happened to me. I once snored and started drooling before being woken up by a nightmare. I ended up getting a pretty good great because of that power nap, despite the fact that may notes were unreadable thanks to the drool
I did once. I couldn't finish it, and the last question was so ass backwards that I just drew a kitty and handed it in. Nobody passed that exam, the teacher disregarded it and gave us a new one that everyone seemed to fair more normally on. My kitty drawing got a good mark because my teacher liked cats, and I was the only one who put something in that space.
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