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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Carl-E:
The AP exams are curved. Basically, getting a 5 (top score) means you can skip the course because you know as much as a good student coming out of one of those courses.
This doesn't account for horrible professors...
Bluesummers:
That's why I was a little confused when the course advisor told me I still needed "Engineering Physics" for my Comp.Sci major...I qualified to skip the year of "physics needed for liberal arts majors" (Like philosophy majors know anything about math)...But apparently Murphy's Law came back to haunt me when I needed the "conversion course" to satisfy the physics requirement for the School of Engineering.
I also failed the AP Calculus exam...I dunno what to think anymore. @_@ But that was seven years ago.
Carl-E:
Well, it's ultimately up to each school whether to accept the AP credit or not. Sounds like this one wanted the engineers to know a little bit more than your average physics student...
Barmymoo:
I had my second midwifery interview today at what was my second choice university (out of two), but actually I think the interview went far better than the one for my first choice, which is only my first choice because it would mean staying in the same city. I will find out before Christmas whether I have a place, have been rejected or am "on hold". I think it will either be the first or the last; I think it went well enough that I shouldn't have been turned down but it's hard to know.
I did only get 75% on the maths test though, which I'm annoyed about (sample question, with calculator provided: 5 x 3 + 12). It's not impossible that I could have got one or two questions wrong, but five seems unlikely. I suspect it was because the computer cannot actually tell whether you have the right answer, simply whether you have entered the exact series of characters it has as the "correct" answer. For instance, when I got the answer 8/5 it would not let me enter it as 1 3/8. Some of the other girls entered it as a decimal instead, and we don't know which answer was correct.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 18 Dec 2012, 12:33 ---...when I got the answer 8/5 it would not let me enter it as 1 3/8. Some of the other girls entered it as a decimal instead, and we don't know which answer was correct.
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Well, for one thing, 8/5 = 1 3/5, not 1 3/8. But most simple computer data reading can't handle mixed numbers anyway, and would probably reject either of those. Since a calculator was allowed, 8/5 = 1.6 would probably be the only "acceptable" form. (unless it really was 1 3/8 = 11/8 = 1.375)
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