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The majority of students on final exam review day (i.imgur.com)

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[–]WhichSimpsonsEpisode 196 points197 points ago

Season 7 Episode 17: "Homer the Smithers"

[–]kingpumpkin 28 points29 points ago

How often does this novelty come in helpful?

[–][deleted] ago

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[–]Yeebeme 19 points20 points ago

Don't forget Arrested Development and Community.

[–]FlyingPasta 2 points3 points ago

Breaking Bad and Ponies.

[–]DogCandy 1 point2 points ago

Parks & Recreation.

[–]FlyingPasta 1 point2 points ago

Happy day of the cake.

[–]DogCandy 0 points1 point ago

Thank you!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

This often.

[–]flinxsl -1 points0 points ago

Considering most of us already know the content without having the novelty tell us, I'd say not often.

[–]Urvilan 2 points3 points ago

Sure we know where it's from, but not specifically where.

[–]Joeshy 40 points41 points ago

When asked what the final exam would cover yesterday, my professor said:

"Everything from Kindergarten to today"

I have been brushing up on my cursive handwriting and square dancing.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

What the heck was the point of square dancing!? I've never been to a place where everybody was square dancing and my ability to square dance was their measurement of judging my worth./end

[–]SpitefulMoose 8 points9 points ago

Don't forget about drawing a world map by hand. Worst day of the fifth grade.

[–]RKstarfox 40 points41 points ago

So you're saying I should be paying attention right now?

[–]bernardi 4 points5 points ago

YES, DAMMIT!

[–]RKstarfox 2 points3 points ago

FUCK! REDDIT I BLAME YOU! ALL CAPS!

[–]jetkac 43 points44 points ago

uh eh...the things?

[–]Thats_Debatable 15 points16 points ago

"Is this going to be on the exam?"

[–]digger_ex_pat 3 points4 points ago

Cuz I wasn't paying attention.

[–]this_is_debatable 1 point2 points ago

Yes.

[–]Thats_Debatable 0 points1 point ago

Cool name, bruh.

[–]kingpumpkin 2 points3 points ago

It's debatable.

[–]YouEssay 53 points54 points ago

Because fuck a professor, that's why.

[–]bartonar 41 points42 points ago

It seems to be worse with math teachers... They go faster than the opening to Chop Suey when explaining how to use a formula...

Essentially, "When you're using this forumla make oiuyesgtnmqlwakjtvmbklewant vkhesngaktvnewjyat bvlawntvwaliytial and then you iesrgvamt vkjenmhwa.ltv,jewakljyrtvhmewamht vlwi BUT DONT USE A CALCULATOR or your nieuargetOKMIJVYTNOIEWANOBV AND IF YOU DO THAT YOU'LL GET THE ANSWER WRONG! You actually want to mewoiktyaoiubvnyewutbkyhwanmvku;tnhrolbav uioyvp

[–]YouEssay 31 points32 points ago

Foreign Math teachers I hear are even worse. Foreign anything teachers. I understand you know everything there is to know about the subject you're preaching, but if there' s a communication barrier between the two of us, HOW THE FUCK AM I GOING TO LEARN FROM YOU!?

[–]garbleman 33 points34 points ago

My math teacher (now a US citizen but originally from france) marked me down for using proper grammar on a long answer question. She "corrected" my use of the phrase "many people" and took a point off because I didn't say "much people" instead. Uh....

[–]doooom 11 points12 points ago

That's exactly why it sucks that universities care more about professors getting published than they do about students learning.

[–]ragebird3 6 points7 points ago

I had a biology professor from the Philipines. On the first day she told us "frip-frops are not arrowed in the rab." Lab safety has never been more amusing.

[–]ModifiedZebra 2 points3 points ago

All plurals become singular and all singular terms become plural in da pillipeens.

[–]cosmicglitter 7 points8 points ago

My English professor was Japanese. Though she was fairly fluent, she had a heavy accent and occasionally didn't know the word for something she was trying to convey.

[–]PeterMus 3 points4 points ago

I had a math class in which everyone was struggling. I asked the professor, who allots about 20 minutes/50 minutes to doing in class work sheets if he could explain the formula by demonstrating one problem. "go to the math center" was his answer for every question.

[–]bartonar 4 points5 points ago

This is why i hate math teachers with the fury of a thousand flaming suns. They think that since they find the material easy, everyone else will. They usually find it easy cause they're been teaching it forever.

[–]snarkinator 1 point2 points ago

This is why i hate math teachers with the fury of a thousand flaming suns.

Because all math teachers are exactly as you described...

[–]bartonar 1 point2 points ago

Every math teacher ive had since Grade 9 has either been like that or been completely ineffectual.

[–]snarkinator 2 points3 points ago

I'm genuinely sorry that you've had such lousy teachers. Not all of them are like that.

[–]bcarle 0 points1 point ago*

But a disproportionate number are. It's a difficult thing to teach, but every math teacher I've ever had has seemed like they had no real interest in whether anyone learned or not. Both of my math teachers at the college level made frequent, very basic mistakes while demonstrating material and refused to be corrected. That's just not something you see in other subjects.

[–]snarkinator 0 points1 point ago

I've seen it in other subjects, but we've already established that our experiences differ. Two teachers at the same institution is a statistically insignificant number and really can't be generalized to the entire population.

[–]bcarle 1 point2 points ago

Oh, certainly not. Anecdotally though, people seem to have more difficulty with math teachers than others. Not really the fault of teachers necessarily, just seems like math teachers have more difficulty than others explaining math to non-math people. If you have that kind of mathematical mind, it can be tough to see things from the nonmathematical perspective that might be required to help your students.

[–]DuckDragon[S] 0 points1 point ago*

I have not laughed this hard in a while. Your comment made my day.

[–]DownvoteALot 2 points3 points ago

awhile

That's not how you use this word.

[–]i_P_Crimson 0 points1 point ago

please explain proper use.

[–]dillywin 0 points1 point ago

You arent supposed to write down everything they say you just write down the stuff that you wont remember

[–]kmoblack 10 points11 points ago

Who actually goes on final exam review day?

[–]Cyralea -3 points-2 points ago

The lazy kids who think they can cover the entire course material in one lecture.

[–]ManInTheMirage 26 points27 points ago

Really? In my experience it's been the opposite. It's the highly motivated, completely overprepared, know-everything-imaginable-about-the-topic, kids who go to review because they think they're "literally going to get a 0."

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[–]pulled 5 points6 points ago

I get As but I'm always scared that I am delusional about knowing the material and that my previous tests might have all been flukes.

[–]mizhi 0 points1 point ago

That was my experience as well.

[–]qrtr_inch_seam 6 points7 points ago

That's pretty much what your professors hear, too, and wonder why you haven't been studying the material all semester.

[–]L22 1 point2 points ago

Unfortunately, what you hear isn't quite as polite as this is. It usually goes something like: "wtf is _______?! I haven't even heard of that before! You never told me this!" etc.

[–]qrtr_inch_seam 1 point2 points ago

Oh, I know first hand what they say. My husband has had college students get physical with him because they felt they were "wronged" because he tested on material that was completely unknown to them (except for being in the book and covered in lecture.)

[–]resonatingfury 7 points8 points ago

I just finished all of my exams. My brain hurts and I don't remember anything.

[–]TwasARockLobsta 18 points19 points ago

That just means the education is working.

[–]ProductivityMonster 2 points3 points ago

Now to butcher an Einstein quote: "Knowledge is what remains after education is lost", or something like that.

[–]rootbeerismythang 26 points27 points ago

If there is one thing I have learned about being a college student it is that anything discussed during final exam review is never on the test.

[–]PretendsToKnowThings 12 points13 points ago

Really? I have found that at least in the math and science classes, the stuff brought up in final reviews actually tend to be on finals, thus benefiting those who attended the review session. Or some small facet that was discussed is emphasized on the final.

[–]Shmoogy 1 point2 points ago

Depends. It can go either way. If its at a review session it's fair game but can also just be something the professor finds really interesting that he thinks you might finally be able to understand now that you're ready for the exam.

[–]ProductivityMonster 1 point2 points ago

They're hardly ever worth it in my opinion because professors usually go over ridiculously detailed material that is not on the exam. Most of college is learning how to learn, not being spoon fed what to study.

[–]HugeStallionCock -2 points-1 points ago

I think it's too late to start learning how to learn in college. That shit should be done before highschool.

[–]rollerbarrel 1 point2 points ago

not sure why downvotes, you did include the word "should"

[–]ProductivityMonster 2 points3 points ago

I downvoted you because I don't agree with you. It's never too late to start until you're dead.

[–]duckedtapedemon 1 point2 points ago

Yeah I agree, I really wasn't challenged enough in highschool. Honestly the only things that challenged me were Band and Spanish. I stuck with band because most of my friends were in it and I wanted to fit in, but I bailed on spanish after two years of C's.

I did awful in math, but I can't say I applied enough genuine effort until senior year to really say I was "challenged". (There's a difference between doing badly because you don't understand whats going on and because you made no reasonable attempt to learn the material in the first place.)

Come college, Chemistry 1 and Calc 1 tried their hardest to kick my ass first semester. Somehow managed B's in both of those. I basically learned all my study habits from Chem 1, made flash cards, practiced problems before tests, studied with other people... all at the age of 18.

[–]ProductivityMonster 0 points1 point ago

Good for you. I'd say you learned something pretty important in college. However, the earlier you learn how to learn, the better. There were a few courses in high school that challenged me. They were the AP math and physics courses I took junior and senior year.

[–]duckedtapedemon 0 points1 point ago

I'm just saying that a lot of people, due to peer pressure or laziyness or hormones or whatever don't get exposed to those kinds of classes unfortunately.

[–]ProductivityMonster 0 points1 point ago*

It was the norm at my high school to take advanced classes if you could. In fact, many parents petitioned to drop the required teacher recommendation for advanced coursework. Therefore, AP teachers just made the advanced classes really hard to weed out the bad students (at least for science and math). English and social studies teachers just graded kids who were better writers harder, but the material was pretty easy. The AP teachers actually had doctorates in the subject so it really was like college and damn some of those tests were hard (avg on physics test was 60).

[–]snarkinator 1 point2 points ago

When I was a TA, we'd make special pains to go over things we knew would be on the final.

[–]Uncle-Dads-Whistle 4 points5 points ago

Really? When I was a TA giving review lectures, about 75% of what I covered was on the test. We TA's would always try and cover the stuff that we thought, or even knew, would be on the test. And when I was an undergrad, I thought the review lectures were always very helpful and prepared you for what was on the test. Maybe this is more common in science departments?

[–]ProductivityMonster 1 point2 points ago

It depends on the professor, even in science departments.

[–]syriquez 3 points4 points ago

Only way that happens is a class full of lazy students that stopped reading halfway through the cover.

The only class I had where someone was trying to get the entire course summarized ended up with that someone being barred by the professor from asking further questions during the review session and being told off for never being in class before that point. Professor never took attendance and still knew everyone's names.

[–]mizhi 2 points3 points ago

Professor never took attendance and still knew everyone's names.

One thing I learned by teaching during grad school was that your professors (and your TAs) know what you are doing. We knew everyone by name, we knew who came to class, who was cheating, who was putting effort into their assignments, and we had pretty good beads on who was going to pass and who was going to fail. I've only been surprised once when a student wound up getting a poor grade at the end of the semester (and I liked this student because she poured her heart into the class).

I also learned that some students really don't try. They'll come to office hours and ask for the answers, but will refuse to engage in any actual problem solving. Those were the most frustrating to deal with. I would bend over backwards to assist people through their problem sets... as long as they put forth the effort to think through the problem. The students who ask for the answers are usually the ones who complain that the final had material not covered during class.

[–]DuckDragon[S] 10 points11 points ago

Unless the professors actually add new material during final review. There's nothing more annoying than having them shovel another piece of shit onto the mountain of information you already need to review.

[–]flinxsl 0 points1 point ago

That's why it is worth going to the reviews. Chebychev low pass filters in review? Eliptical high pass on test.

[–]PeterMus 4 points5 points ago*

I sent my professor an email asking a basic question, litterally a yes or no answer about the final paper. He sent me a lengthy email about how I shouldn't be asking for so much guidance while writing a paper and when I handed in my paper..he wrote another long wordy conclusion about asking for to much help.

My question- Are readings involving author ----- appropriate as a source for this paper or would you rather we use sources we've found independently? I just wanted to make sure. I even went to his office to just clarify what I meant (apparently it was rather ambiguous). I got a lecture before finally he shut the hell up and I told him I was literally asking a yes or No question. He said "oh..." and finally dropped it. I'm pretty sure he hadn't even read my email, only my subject title which state : "Thoughts on author ----?"

[–]TheRiff 4 points5 points ago

After 4 lectures about the Cold War, some guy raises his hand and says, "So what should we write down about the Cold War?"

The professor smiles a little and just stares...

"For our notes, I mean."

[–]bootselectric 2 points3 points ago

What are these "exam reviews" you speak of?

[–]nprnpbr 2 points3 points ago

As a TA, this is very true. MFW I just had a recitation where all of the questions were about OLD concepts that people needed for the midterm, the labs and the homeworks.

[–]iamdanhi 0 points1 point ago

We have a wierd kid in my class that always asks weird questions. He starts asking questions before the professor even puts his stuff down. But one of his last questions was something we covered in the first week of the first half of the class last semester. Something that you need to know to comprehend half the stuff in the class.

If anyone cares the teacher drew a big alkane like octane or something which just looks like a zig-zag line and he asks what that is.

[–]fuzzymumbochops 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, it's that point where I start gauging the odds of the final exam only covering readings from the first two weeks.

[–]girlinboots 1 point2 points ago

I'm not looking forward to this next week. It's going to be a class full of frustration and me going "If you had fucking paid attention the first time around you wouldn't be so lost asshole!" Maybe I should pick up a bottle of wine before class to have when I get home.

[–]fsm_follower 1 point2 points ago

As someone who has TA'd college classes I cannot upvote this enough.

[–]snoaj 1 point2 points ago

He should be wearing pajamas.

[–]Unidan 1 point2 points ago

I was teaching a biology class today and this is the most correct thing in the world.

Cautious optimism because they know I'm in charge of their grades, utter honesty about their inability to open a book or study.

[–]EtGE 3 points4 points ago

Nope

[–]cwatsanfran 0 points1 point ago

Straight up doing this on finals day.

[–]Deofol7 0 points1 point ago

This has been the look I have seen from my Students all week.

[–]Bravo777 0 points1 point ago

I actually watched that episode a few days ago!

[–]UntamedHobo 0 points1 point ago

The longer you stare at it, the more deformed his right eye begins to look..

[–]fearlessly 0 points1 point ago

this is my husband anytime I mention something that is my favorite, and then I bring it up like two months later.

It's adorable. :D

[–]tealeaves_ 0 points1 point ago

This happened in bio today. Prof was not impressed.

[–]nawlej_seekur 0 points1 point ago

His face is what makes this.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

NOT ME THOUGH

[–]thehollowman84 0 points1 point ago

...you know...the...things?

[–]blondebimbo 0 points1 point ago

yep, that's what we do...not afraid to admit it!

[–]griesuschrist 0 points1 point ago

It's okay. One day you will be a good enough teacher to have the students retain the information.

[–]WIA16 -1 points0 points ago

At my high school we are going into review week for our AP exams, I have 3 going on.

[–]KMHEA -1 points0 points ago

I saw the "behind the laughter" episode of the simpsons just today. it reminded me just how much i love that show

[–]WorsthantheHolocaust -2 points-1 points ago

Some students do not adequately prepare themselves before the final review session? This is worse than the Holocaust!

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