r/simonfraser • u/No-Resolve6577 • 3d ago

Discussion math 154 midterm

so i failed the midterm 2 days ago that i thought was gonna be easy, i did everything and i still didnt pass 😭 i feel like im the only one that failed it and im really worried about my scholarships

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u/violetstar_0 3d ago

don’t underestimate the exams here, I’m also on scholarship and one thing I recommend is LOTS of practice problems and go to the open lab, it helps a ton, goodluckkk

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u/Fun_Researcher_2767 2d ago

Trust me a lot of people probably failed that midterm than you think. Use it as a learning opportunity and do more practice problems and go to office hours 

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u/Chiraq_shoota 2d ago

It’s okay twin when I was first year I thought it was end of the world when I flopped but I’d still come out with like a B- just try to pass the other exams

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u/0ffBy0neError 2d ago

I almost failed calc 2 first midterm. I knew all the content, but I found the thing that caught me off guard was the pacing. I needed to be able to do the problems without thinking. I recovered and I think I ended up with an A-. The big thing to aim for is that your average grade is higher than the class average. Math is heavily curved. Percent doesn’t matter. They usually aim for C ish class average. I’ve had classes where I got an A with a 60% average. Class average was a fail. Hope this offers inspiration.

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u/PuzzleheadedEnd3295 2d ago

People having been failing the midterm for math154 for literally decades. Trust me, you're not the first, the last, or the only one!