I've always despised Physics. Seriously. I don't get how some people are fascinated by momentum, energy, and other stuff. I guess, the fact that I'm not really a mathematically-inclined person helps -- Physics, for me, is just too damn mathematical.
But I've never despised that subject as much as I do now.
You see, we had our long test last Monday. I thought it was going to be alright -- I'd studied for it, after all. But when I took it, one thing had me scared out of my wits -- the fact that it was right minus wrong.
It'd be fine if the items under that portion were only worth one point each. BUT NO. They were freaking worth two points. Imagine, if you got one item wrong, you won't just lose two points. You'll lose another one because you answered it wrong. And if you didn't even bother to answer it, you won't lose a point. Dammit.
I don't get the logic of that test. I mean, okay, sure, I know it could probably reduce the incidence of guessing, and make us actually read the items for once. But the thing is, most of the choices seem plausible enough to answer the question, so what's the point?
It doesn't help that majority of the test was like that, and that we didn't really get enough practice -- we only have two-three items for homework everytime, and they were the really simple ones too.
If we had two more long tests to make up for this epic failure, fine. But we only have one long test left, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to understand the lesson -- as far as I'm concerned, Physics is the most sleep-inducing class, and with all due respect, I don't think our teacher explains these concepts well. We just keep on deriving and deriving formulas until you don't know what exactly you're doing.
Hay. Epic fail.
PS. I just realized that I've dreamt of typing this entry a few nights ago. :O
2 Comments:
The fact that you are not "mathematically inclined", and that you apparently ignore the teacher, who is trying to explain the lessons, means that you have no intention of even making up for the losses of this test. Long story short, you hate physics, and you don't want to do anything about it.
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September 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM
i only said it was sleep inducing -- i didn't say i actually slept during the lessons. i try my damned best to not sleep during the lessons -- even though i'm sorely tempted to -- and to even actually listen and understand (i even pinch myself to stay awake). besides, i already said that i think the teacher doesn't really explain the concepts well.
and i didn't say i didn't want to do anything about it -- if i didn't want to do anything about physics, i wouldn't even have studied for the LT in the first place. however, i explicitly stated that i studied for it.
and even if i get a perfect score in the next long test, i still wouldn't be able to make up for the losses in the first one.
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