Midterms

[Princess Leia]

Does anyone else stress out majorly over midterms?
Both of mine were open book, open note essay midterms, and I had a week to do them, but I still stressed about them.

Princess Leia/Kendra

 

[fishstix]

I used to get somewhat stressed about tests. But eventually I realized that there are really a tiny thing in the whole scope of life. For one thing, many tests only form a small portion of a course. Absolutely bomb a test worth 20% of the course and you still have 80% left to do well on. If a person fails a test or even an entire class, it's not the end of the world. It might require slightly adjusting one's plans, perhaps retaking a class or needing an extra year to finish a degree or re-evaluating one's career path. But it isn't something that needs to destroy someone's life. Once I started looking at the big picture, tests became somewhat less stressful.

 

[Matt.9:22]

I don't stress because I know that I've worked hard the entire semester, so I know the material.

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

My problem has been that I don't get stressed enough. lol Well, about classes I cannot stand anyway. I've got the absolute worst profs this quarter. One is completely lazy and doesn't tell anyone when anything is due, when tests are, much less what is on the tests. Ugh, I hate classes/teachers with no direction.

I have a physics midterm tomorrow which should be easy, then a Humanities midterm which could go either way.

 

[SmileBugMG]

Does anyone else stress out majorly over midterms?
Both of mine were open book, open note essay midterms, and I had a week to do them, but I still stressed about them.

Princess Leia/Kendra

What school do you go to? I never heard of midterms being open book. And a week to do them? Wow. :o At my schools (both high school & college) people cram for a week in advance, for most of them anyway. Then pray. Pray desperately.

 

[Princess Leia]

What school do you go to? I never heard of midterms being open book. And a week to do them? Wow. :o At my schools (both high school & college) people cram for a week in advance, for most of them anyway. Then pray. Pray desperately.

I go to a junior college... community college, whatever it's called. Much cheaper and easier
Plus my teachers are both easy.

 

[bumblebee62331]

Does anyone else stress out majorly over midterms?
Both of mine were open book, open note essay midterms, and I had a week to do them, but I still stressed about them.

Princess Leia/Kendra

yes

i am a chronic stresser. Every time. No matter what they are worth.

And if I get a question wrong, I'll bash myself up about it. (not literally)

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

I always found take home midterms to be a mixed blessing. Sure, you have unlimited resourses, but the experience I've had is that they just make the questions that much harder. For my Mountain/Canyon flying cours and Aerodynamics and Systems I/II we always had take home tests/midterms. But as I said, they usually end up having tricky questions.

 

[mindalan]

I really feel sick before any major test. No matter how hard I study, I still feel scared.

Finals are worse though. If you mess up, you are sunk.

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

The tests that make me extremely nervous are my practical flight tests. Those can almost make me sick. All I can think of are the things that I should have studied more. The nice thing about them though, at least with me, is that the anxiety of waiting is FAR worse than the actual test. Once I start talking/flying the training kicks in and nothing else enters my mind. But man are those checkrides INTENSE!