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Agreed! The questions were actually really long! It took about a minute to just read the question, meaning we only had 30 sec to eliminate the wrong answers, go through each one and choose the right answer. It wasn't exactly enough :(.
Also, I disagree, Dr. Kim is actually really interesting. I just feel that the lectures don't go into enough depth as in the midterm, or at least the type of examples that were asked of us in the midterm.
And for those who took thwe course last year, was the textbook helpful? I'm considering getting it (even though there's a month left of classes :(!) if it helps?
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I agree with the lack of information...that is what pissed me off the most..
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10-31-2009 at 02:04 PM
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or maybe I just suck -_-
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10-31-2009 at 03:04 PM
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ya i definitely agree.
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You were given about 100 seconds or a minute 40 per question.
That's way more than enough time - the multiple choice should take you about a minute per question, which means you have 25 minutes leftover to check it over/leave early/focus on the ones you weren't sure about.
The level of difficulty of the questions, however, was strangely high. I don't think it was because the midterm itself was hard, but because we weren't given sufficient difficult practice. I could easily do all the ELM quizzes, the intropsych practice questions and whatnot, but then the midterm questions were nothing like those. If they gave out real practice for what would be on the midterm, the people who actually make time for Psych could have done better.
So I think the stuff done pre-test made the test harder than it actually was.
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10-31-2009 at 03:19 PM
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"Its a first year intropsych course, not a fourth year Physiology course."
Fair, but this is supposed to a University science course, not a place for some easy "take your time" kind of tests.
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10-31-2009 at 03:24 PM
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This is interesting:
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10-31-2009 at 03:50 PM
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"Its a first year intropsych course, not a fourth year Physiology course."
Fair, but this is supposed to a University science course, not a place for some easy "take your time" kind of tests.
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I understand, but if the material isn't sufficient enough to do a freaking midterm then it feels more like that damn fourth year course.
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lmfao. The man does have a sense of humour though, you have to give him that.
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10-31-2009 at 03:53 PM
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I think that was done by the TA's
I'm not entirely sure how to upload a higher resolution picture.
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10-31-2009 at 04:25 PM
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"Its a first year intropsych course, not a fourth year Physiology course."
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Considering we have to write 4 page essays in upper year physiology courses, plus multiple choice answers/short answers in 50 minutes... there's hardly any comparison.
I would gladly write an intropsych midterm over some of my fourth year courses. The tougher it is in first year, the easier you'll find it during the next few years.
University is supposed to challenge you. My advice is to learn from the "bad" experiences.
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I don't get why so many people are complaining (There was similar complaints in the years I took the intro psych courses too); the first year psych courses are bird.
I think high school just conditioned too many people into not thinking about questions.
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"I understand, but if the material isn't sufficient enough to do a freaking midterm then it feels more like that damn fourth year course."
It is though - I guarantee at least someone out of the 3,200 people who wrote that test got perfect. Well, as much of a guarantee I can give out without knowing the actual results.
That being the case, it means it was definitely doable - someone must have gotten close to perfect if not perfect itself.
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Someone got perfect last year including the bonus. So basically they got over 100% on test. I found that unreasonable as I did really bad on midterm and believed majority of people felt that way. That is the reason sometimes there's no adjusting of marks because it will discredit the person who got perfect. I thought Dr. Kim or Matt Pachai put that stat in just for the fun of it.
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There was no bonus this year.
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I'm by no means a genius and I don't study that much and I'm pretty sure I got over a 95 on last year's 1x03 midterm. It really isn't that hard, every question addresses some point made in the online lectures and every wrong MC answer can be eliminated using logical inferences.
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A note to the upper-years, I agree with some points you have stated, but not all. Afterall, you can't compare this year and last-year's exam (or any other year) fairly, unless you actually wrote BOTH.
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