Electromagnetism and Optics Midterm 1: The Lowdown

[montecatini85]

“And I don’t have a third point for my summary of today’s lecture, so I’ll just leave you with this: ‘The midterm will be horrific.’”

~ Prof Sahakian

“Last year in E & M I kept telling the sophomores that the first midterm was going to be horrific, and I was just doing it to scare them.  But then I gave the midterm, and it turned out that it

Comments

[sixpenny_book]

oh my god, i am so glad I'm not in physics, i would die.

on the other hand, i did get a 94% on my first ever college exam: Elementary Statistics (dumb kid/short bus/english major math) ;-)

[montecatini85]

Congratulations! I have yet to get a 94% on any test I've taken here...

[muddchem07]

Hey there - just added you to my list. First of all, Sahakian is hilarious, but the two of us just didn't get along after he gave that first midterm last yr. I thought it was unfair (required about twice as much time as was given to us, and one problem had an impossible integral if you took the approach that 50% of the students took), and grades on it were more luck-based than knowledge-based, which is bull. I got 20 pts better on the 2nd midterm and 25 pts better on the final, so in case you're kinda worried about how the test went just consider that the next two will actually be more fair since Sahakian isn't writing them.

[montecatini85]

Based on what I've heard about last year's first midterm, this year's wasn't nearly as bad, although it was still difficult. The consensus seems to be that most people did mediocre at best, so no one is too worried about getting a score much below average, myself included. (I guess we'll see on Monday if that impression is accurate.)

[csn]

He is a great man and one of the best teachers I've ever had. Talk to him outside of class, it will help a lot. And eat dinner at his apartment, if he's still doing that.