I already told this story to MQ and Dud, but I decided for some reason to post it to that all of massassi can see. I took my last 2 final exams today, and I seriously just failed health. It comprised of scantron part one, 130 questions, 3 essays (or 6, depending on how you look at it) and then part 2 of the scantron, about 130 more quesitons.

well I finished part one and I pretty much wrote a book for the essay part, which took up most of my time. I then had 8 minutes to finish part 2, 130 questions. I got to about #70 and then I started filling random bubbles in, figuring I had a 25% chance and he was already asking for papers.

This was my easiest exam too! I knew the answers! he told me not to worry (my health teacher loves me and I have no idea why). I got 2 A's in teh class, so if I get a C on the exam, I can still keep my A for the semester...but that probably won't happen unless he counts the essays for A LOT.

anything to help me feel better?

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

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You're better than Ice Cream.

omg you totally just made my day. Thankyou!

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

You have nothing to worry about, especially from what your teacher told you. For future reference though, you should probably always do the scantron part first.

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hehehe, and thats why you don't write a book

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<Genki> oh, where are you going, with beards all a waggin, no knowin no knowin what bring dear Mr. Baggins, and Balin, and Dwalin, here down in the vally Ah ha!

well actually it was, you do part 1 and the essays and then go up and get part 2. and I know, I really need to work on writing less for exams...I seem to have a problem with that.

I'm still smiling from your link though, Hellequin.

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

There are a few important things that you should remember here that may make you feel better:

1 - Health is just a stupid freshman required course, no one in the real world aside from the medical profession cares about it

2 - Even if you want to be a doctor, getting a less than perfect grade in health won't really affect you

3- Worse comes to worse, you can always go to a trade school, get your associate's degree, then get your bachelor's at a real college

Just remember overall, it's just health. I mean, how seriously can you take a class where you practice putting condoms on pickles?

Damnit. I knew we were getting cheated out of something.. My class never got to do it. Though we did get drunk goggles. That was so damn cool. I OWNED the class.

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

We never put condoms on pickles! or used the drunk goggles! yeah, it is a dumb freshman class (that I should have taken when I was actually a freshman instead of waiting till junior year) but wouldn't it suck to have such a dumb class bring your GPA down?

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

Pickles..? You Americans must be a little... Well, we used bananas

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wait - is this for highschool or college?
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[This message has been edited by Checksum (edited February 02, 2004).]

Hmmm - you say you got up to question 70 of the second paper. Well, not even counting the essays (which I assume are worth a fairly high proportion of the exam), you've done over 75% of the marks. Which is a lot of marks. And, if you add in the essays, then the proportion of your exam that you missed out is even less. What percentage do you need to get an A? (I only know the UK exam system, and you generally only need 70% as far as I'm aware). In any case, I reckon you should be well over a C grade.
I suggest you don't worry too much about it and trust your teacher!

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This thread brings out my frustration about not having really any sex ed ever. I don't need it now, but looking back my mom never had a talk with me about sex, I think I learned the basics of it from my doctor. Too be completely honest, most of my sexual knowledge was harvested from Loveline, that radio program. No joke. I started listening to it in sixth grade. No one has ever in my life talked to me about safe sex either. Kind of weird like that, I dunno. I guess that's what I get for having conservative parents.

Here's what my health classes through the years have consisted of.

Sixth grade: This is how a fetus is created.

Seventh grade: Smoking is BAD. Drugs are BAD. Alcohol is BAD. Oh yeah, have safe sex (never detailing safe sex)

Eighth grade: Smoking is BAD. Drugs are BAD. Alcohol is BAD.

Ninth grade: ALCOHOL IS THE WORST THING EVER CREATED ON THE PLANET DON'T EVER DO IT AND SMOKING IS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD YOU CAN DO TO YOUR BODY AND DON'T DO DRUGS EVER AND OH YEAH EAT RIGHT.

Basically, all I've gotten is people over and over and over telling me how terrible smoking, alcohol, and drugs are. Just spewing statistics about them all class period and that's it. No drunk goggles, and no sex ed accept for a two day thing we did in sixth grade, which just kind of went through the stages of a baby, if I remember right. And my perception of drugs, alcohol, and smoking has changed little. Drugs, yeah, I can see where they're coming from. Some of that is scary stuff. The one thing that's helped changed my perception on that is my mom telling me about drug addicts she's had to work with (she used to be a social worker). Smoking, is something I could see myself doing occasionally. And alcohol in moderation is NOT a bad thing. I've had it pounded into my skull that the second a beer hits my lips my liver will shrivel up and die and I'll be an alcoholic the rest of my life..

Ok, that's it. Sorry... kinda got on a little rant there. But to conclude, I feel my health classes I've had to sit through have been largely a waste of time and ineffective at reaching me. OK, I'm done.

And don't worry about your exam, even if you didn't do too well I don't think it's the end of the world .

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[This message has been edited by MadQuack (edited February 03, 2004).]

That's all true. I was in the same classes he was and they're uh.. not very helpful.

But yeah. My parents have never really talked to me either. I learned everything I know from Jose.

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

A woman's best friend (right up there with diamonds).

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0 of 14.

I've never had SexED, but I've never missed it... what exactly can be said that the average teenager isn't suffocated with already?

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I made the worst possible answer on my first Chemistry exam. Here is the question

I chose B. I just wasn't thinking about it when I wrote the answer.
After the exam, my teacher says to me

That made MY day!

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On my Physics exam, we were asked to explain how we would get a car out of a snow bank, using physics terms.

At one point in my explanation, I said "Apply force larger than the force of friction of the car on the snow...". He circled it and drew an arrow and wrote "You're not strong enough" and took a mark off. Hehe.

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Ugh. my chemistry teacher got mad at us for the exam. Almost all of us did really badly (we had only one 90-level grade in the class, and about 3 to 4 out of 12 of us failed). He gave us a lecture about how it was bad that the school lowered the impact of the exam (it used to be 33.3% for MP1, 33.3% for MP2, and 33.3% for the exam. now its 40% for each MP and 20% for the exam) because it made the kids not care as much, or at all. Which is odd, cause normally he's a really happy-go-lucky guy. I think he was really disappointed in us.

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thanks, that is rather helpful...but I can't remember if it was 20 or 70...I can't remember if I got to the right side of the scantron...

and outlaw torn: today is a new day

oh yeah, and high school to whoever asked

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule