Sometimes it's luck.

[cjsmith]

Monday: chem test. Didn't finish. Spent a bunch of time agonizing over one of the four-point multiple choice questions, wherein all answers seemed ludicrous, and lost track of the fact I had skipped over one of the longer nine-point show-work problems. Scribbled a pile of math for that one in the last three minutes of the exam. Time was called before I got to an answer.

Today: got test back. Was hoping everything else was correct, so that I'd get at worst an 87. I was stunned to see that I got a 99. The multiple choice NEARLY TOTAL GUESS turned out to be correct, and I lost only a point for not doing the last line or two of calculations in that one problem I had barely had time to set up.

Sometimes, I swear, it's just plain luck.

Comments

Ya done good!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

First rule of successful test taking. Whip through the multiple choice you know the answers to first. Next up? Short answer questions and anything else that requires structuring thought and writing down your answers. Then back to the multiple choice you're not sure of and work from there.

Re: Ya done good!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Second rule of successful test taking: don't forget ya skipped one. (sheepish look)