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Anonymous Sat Sep 27 20:45:44 2014 No.6779829 [Reply] [Original]

My physics professor said that he will not look at anything marked wrongly on an exam if you do not write in pen. Is this fair?

I am just seeing myself in two fucking shitty situations..one where I do the work all properly in pencil and get the right answer and he marks it wrong by his own mistake but then refuses to remark it, and one where I use pen and go through a problem, realize i went about doing it the wrong way, and then have absolutely no fucking space to redo the problem quickly, not to mention scratches and messiness everywhere.

what would be the smartest option?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 20:47:19 2014 No.6779832 >>6779829 If you don't do it in a permanent medium, what exactly prevents you from, after receiving your exam back, changing your work and claiming it was marked incorrectly? Only fair way to allow regrades is to demand pen.

Anonymous Sat Sep 27 20:53:40 2014 No.6779842

>>6779832
i have never used a pen for anything in my life. my eraser is my brother.

Do you guys think it'd be safer to just do it in pencil and ensure that my solutions are as how i want them, with no "errors" and scratching and permanentness, or taking the risk of doing a solution wrong and needing an erase?

obviously i should aim to not do a solution wrong, but fuck sometimes i just go about doing it an overly hard way and see an easier way in teh end

Anonymous Sat Sep 27 20:59:05 2014 No.6779849

>>6779842

In all likelihood, your professor is not going to make a mistake in grading your work, and indeed is actually more likely to do so if your work is scattered and hard to follow. How you got this far without being able to manage your space in such a way to have extra space in case you make a mistake, or scratch paper to work it out first before writig it down, I'll never know. But doing it in pencil should be fine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:00:16 2014 No.6779851 File: 15 KB, 400x320, 140-933.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6779829

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:00:52 2014 No.6779852 >>6779842 What's preventing you from getting an erasable pen?

Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:06:07 2014 No.6779863

>>6779852
He specifically says no using that.

>>6779851
>time during an exam to whip out the correction pen and erase the entire page (LIQUDI PAPER THE ENTIRE PAGE) to redo a solution

>>6779849
i guess thats a good way of thinking about it. How do you organize your page/subconsciously organize your shit? my shit is always all over the place. I kinda just write wherever there is empty space

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:06:35 2014 No.6779864 >>6779829 Have you considered colored pencil?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:11:41 2014 No.6779875 >>6779864 if its erasable its not allowed, basically

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:13:54 2014 No.6779884 I had to use pens up to highschool In university, I haven't used anything but pencils. MASTER RACE

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:15:33 2014 No.6779887 >>6779875 What about that invisible ink stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:16:58 2014 No.6779891 >>6779884 >"WE ARE PREPARING YOU FOR COLLEGE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" >College is nothing like high school Why is our (murican) education system so retarded?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:20:46 2014 No.6779898 >>6779887 the point is that if it can be erased, he isnt going to remark it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:21:20 2014 No.6779899 >>6779829 Why does it matter if I use a pen or pencil? >>6779891 Are you kidding me? College feels like high-school 2.0.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:23:34 2014 No.6779903 File: 21 KB, 239x281, 1775659_1301438234590_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6779898 >Draw work in pencil >Check >If it's correct retrace in pen

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:24:33 2014 No.6779905 Bring work paper. If your teacher is super bitchy (and it sounds like he is), staple them to your test after you finish.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:30:45 2014 No.6779916 >>6779905 good idea.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:35:43 2014 No.6779926 >>6779891 >>6779899 I was that guy. I am from a third world country, my uni was in murica though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:37:32 2014 No.6779931 >>6779926 Let me guess.....Indian?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:39:01 2014 No.6779933 >>6779829 Use extra paper to quickly layout your solution. If it all checks out, write it out fully on the examination, in pen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:43:26 2014 No.6779946 >>6779931 yeah.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:46:08 2014 No.6779951 >>6779946 Ok...I'm gonna go for a tough one. You live in Illinois?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:51:50 2014 No.6779961 >>6779951 no, I am back in India. You know there are probably like ...... a million other Indians who studied in the US, ...... right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 21:52:36 2014 No.6779964 >>6779829 I bet your school has a decent amount of pre-med students.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:06:14 2014 No.6779984 >>6779961 Goddammit, well you can't blame a guy for trying right? Anyway, yeah I do. I'm glad for it too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:08:18 2014 No.6779992 >>6779863 I always work the problem out on scratch paper before writing the solution on the actual test, or at least enough pieces of the solution that the rest will flow naturally.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:10:45 2014 No.6780000 just fucking cross it out if youve made a mistake paper is cheap and there is no way the uni would not continue providing you with extra booklets when needed, what shit tier kind of uni do u go to?

Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:14:30 2014 No.6780006

What the fuck is up with this thread?

I have done all my tests in pencil. Teacher gives back test. If something is marked incorrectly, immediately tell teacher before being given answer.

If teacher lets you make corrections (a redo), then you do those in pen.

I feel like people are trying to overcomplicate this...

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:21:52 2014 No.6780020 So why does it even matter if I use a pen or pencil?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:24:44 2014 No.6780024 >>6779832 it's the 21st century, we have these things called scanners. no need to take a picture of the exam anymore when you can just scan it and check for inconsistencies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:24:55 2014 No.6780025 >>6780020 because you can erase and change pencil easily, and doing so with pen leaves noticeable marks cheating faget

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:25:48 2014 No.6780028 File: 845 KB, 300x300, 1411603013426.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6779875 bring in crayons then

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:27:30 2014 No.6780030 File: 57 KB, 960x783, 1394435232340.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6779961 >my face every time i remember there are over a billion fucking people living in india

Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:33:15 2014 No.6780042

>>6779933
This. You don't have to write out the whole thing on scrap paper, but getting a sketch down really helps. You should do this anyway, because
a) you'll find any mistakes you made as you transcribe; and
b) you won't have smudgy/scribbly solutions, making your graders grateful and therefore more lenient.

It doesn't even take significantly more time. You don't have to do it for every question, even... just the ones where you might make mistakes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:35:23 2014 No.6780044 >>6779933 >>6779992 >thinking that you should allocate time to writing shit down NOT on the exam every single second of an exam counts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:36:29 2014 No.6780047 >>6780006 >implying you cant just solve the question in the marking time and change it the second he gives the exam back to the right one this is why, idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 22:56:14 2014 No.6780077 >>6779891 http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/book.htm

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:03:05 2014 No.6780090 >>6779863 if you're pressed for time during an exam, that's a good indicator you lack practice Stop procrastinating.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:08:52 2014 No.6780102 >>6779899 >College feels like high-school 2.0. Depends. Once I switched into Chemistry from Life Sciences, I got shocked by the sudden change in workload. Meanwhile, my buddies who stayed in Life Sciences have so much free time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:17:13 2014 No.6780116 >>6780044 How long do you fucking take to do an exam? I do all my exams in pencil and if the particular professor would rather have it in pen then I just write with pen on top and proceed to erase the pencil marks. Jesus christ.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:18:25 2014 No.6780119 >>6780044 I have never ever needed more than about a third of the required time on an exam.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:21:36 2014 No.6780128 >>6780119 You are either lying or haven't taken an actual advanced math/physics/chem class

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:23:08 2014 No.6780133 >>6780047 Yeah cause the professor wouldn't notice a correct answer with incorrect work... And most professors tell you to put your pencils away when they give you back your test for that very reason

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:24:19 2014 No.6780139 >>6779829 Your smartest option would be to tell him to fuck off with his bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:24:50 2014 No.6780142 >>6780119 >or haven't taken an actual advanced math/physics/chem class That. I'm only in 200 level stuff. I would have graduated by now if I hadn't basically wasted my first year and then took a year off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:26:12 2014 No.6780145 >>6780142 meant to reply to >>6780128

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 27 23:45:13 2014 No.6780189 >>6780024 >I hate professors so I want to force them to either scan every single fucking exam they get handed in, or believe me when I change my answer and demand more marks You don't have to go to college, you know. If you want you can just leave.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 00:05:11 2014 No.6780238 File: 37 KB, 640x480, 1247652546869.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6779829 Do the problem is pencil. Retrace the presented answer in pen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 00:10:05 2014 No.6780249 >>6780238 i think this is smart, but what if i get the question answer wrong but the work is right, and he just doesnt give me any marks for the work....

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 00:30:10 2014 No.6780267 >>6780249 Retrace the whole thing in pen.

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