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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2008, 07:03:49 pm »
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Lol, my Methods is terrible! D+'s for all the SAC's I have completed thus far. Hopefully, I can get a 20 or something, or, if something extravagant happens, high 20's? I just don't want to see a UG in Methods! Ultimate hopes and dreams crusher! :'(

Don't worry. Methods can count as your 5th or 6th subject. Therefore what's the different between 2.0 and 3.0 in your aggregate? Not much (I think).

Can be quite a bit when you get into the stratospheric 98+ range.

Which I won't get, so who cares?

I just want this bloody year to be over and done with.
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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2008, 08:12:53 pm »
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Lol, my Methods is terrible! D+'s for all the SAC's I have completed thus far. Hopefully, I can get a 20 or something, or, if something extravagant happens, high 20's? I just don't want to see a UG in Methods! Ultimate hopes and dreams crusher! :'(

Don't worry. Methods can count as your 5th or 6th subject. Therefore what's the different between 2.0 and 3.0 in your aggregate? Not much (I think).

Can be quite a bit when you get into the stratospheric 98+ range.

Which I won't get, so who cares?

I just want this bloody year to be over and done with.

i so agree with that.
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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2008, 10:20:09 pm »
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Lol, my Methods is terrible! D+'s for all the SAC's I have completed thus far. Hopefully, I can get a 20 or something, or, if something extravagant happens, high 20's? I just don't want to see a UG in Methods! Ultimate hopes and dreams crusher! :'(

Don't worry. Methods can count as your 5th or 6th subject. Therefore what's the different between 2.0 and 3.0 in your aggregate? Not much (I think).

Can be quite a bit when you get into the stratospheric 98+ range.

If I got 1 aggregate higher, my enter would have *just* made it up to the next 0.05 bracket, and I got 98+ :P

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« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2008, 10:43:30 pm »
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I was a fool; I chose Methods. (I'm a humanities person, I have no idea what possessed me...)

trust me i know what your going through- i too have regrets, i mean if i just stuck to GM i would have aced it.

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2008, 11:59:05 pm »
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I was a fool; I chose Methods. (I'm a humanities person, I have no idea what possessed me...)

It's an understatement to say that I'm not doing so well. I'm averaging 67% with SAC marks. (we've only done two, and that's what I got on both)

I was just wondering if I can perhaps lift my average to a 70, what kind of study score can I expect? Obviously I don't have high hopes, but this could be the difference between acceptance into my first preference or not.

Any ideas?

You're not a fool! Mathematical knowledge is a good world skill to have. You know (hopefully) that rates play a big part in every day life. I've used related rates equations before in my every day life to help me! I.E. I calculated how long it takes to fill my bath on full so that I can do other stuff whilst it's filling and not have it overflow. Yes, I'm a complete nerd. :P

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« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2008, 12:07:42 am »
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LOL aw shit. Now I'm always gonna think of you as the owner of VN who runs his bath (testing the temperature of the water to get it just right)with his little rubber duck floating around.

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2008, 12:31:25 am »
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Do you really need Methods for that?

Time how long it takes to fill a cup of a known volume. Measure the volume of your bath (or estimate it, using its dimensions -- rectangular prism will be a decent approximation), then it's a simple division from there.

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« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2008, 11:43:24 am »
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Lol Coblin, that is the exact mathematical theory which I struggle at!

Do you need a study score higher than 25 in Methods to get into the course you want?

I don't really need mathematics for the course I want to do. I guess it would have been nice to do a subject which I was good at, and could excel at, rather than just picking something for the extra scaling, which doesn't count for much if I get an inferior study score in it :'(

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2008, 07:31:40 pm »
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I've used related rates equations before in my every day life to help me! I.E. I calculated how long it takes to fill my bath on full so that I can do other stuff whilst it's filling and not have it overflow. Yes, I'm a complete nerd. :P

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2008, 08:37:28 pm »
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Do you really need Methods for that?

Time how long it takes to fill a cup of a known volume. Measure the volume of your bath (or estimate it, using its dimensions -- rectangular prism will be a decent approximation), then it's a simple division from there.

Or else just use a stopwatch to time it and record through what angle the tap has been rotated. You can use this angle next time and you will always know how long it will take. As an additional exercise, see (through small experiments) if water flow is proportional to some function of the angle through which the tap is rotated. Then you can estimate how long it will take to fill for all rotations.

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2008, 09:05:23 pm »
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or, just turn the tap on and be normal  :angel:
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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2008, 03:02:51 pm »
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you guys take baths?
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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #27 on: July 24, 2008, 04:23:20 pm »
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you guys take baths?

I hear washing is the latest craze in Europe.

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Re: Not doing so well...
« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2008, 04:42:50 pm »
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you guys take baths?

Baths are therapeutic.
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« Reply #29 on: July 24, 2008, 05:07:18 pm »
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    yay, go baths :D