Your lowest test grade in college?

B

Beau Vine

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I had someone make a 15 on one of my exams this summer. It was multiple choice. This happens about once a semester.

Several years back at another university, I had someone make a 5 on a 20-question multiple choice test.

I'm still not sure how this is possible, or why you'd even show up for the test if you knew that little.
 
I made a 17 on a test. Second highest in the class. Some guy made 31 and busted the heck out of the curve. He got an "A" and I got the "B".
 
My lowest grade ever was a 2 out of 100. It happened my second year in school in M408D or M427K, whichever one of those is Differential Equations.

It was 5 questions and I was bombing left and right but I knew how to do one exactly. Showed all my work and solved for x and boxed my answer. Because I didn't put my final answer in the formula something like y=e^x + xe^x they only gave me 2 points for it. I mean come on at least give me half the points for that problem. The class average was in the mid 60s for the test.

Anyway a 2, worst grade ever in life. I ended up missing a B in that class by like 12 points on my final exam. Probably because I didn't write an answer in the proper form.
 
My sr year I was kinda slacking off. A week before the final in my power class I went to see what I had made on my first 2 tests.

18 and 48.

After the curve I made a 107 on the final. D for Diploma.
 
first college test ever- Economics 30x (cant remember which number)

He was a First time prof. I scored a 3.5 out of 25 points.

Worked my *** off for the rest of the semester in that class. Each test was progressive and based on the previous material.

I only missed a single 1/2 point combined on the last 3 tests. Giving me a 78 for the class.

Got a "C" for the class, and the @#%*** professor refused to give me a higher grade - I tried arguing the point that I knew the material inside and out- as evidenced by aceing the last 3 tests, but that jackass held strong to the overall point total.

Yes, its been 15 years, and yes I am still bitter.....
 
Somewhere in the high 20s on a 125-point accounting exam. I think the test was at 9:30 and I worked until 2 the night before.

Fortunately, you could drop the low exam, so I passed the class.
 
71.

I guess you can say that I'm the smart-type. I had an Organic Chemistry class that I went to six times the whole semester -- days that we had exams.

I would study some other guy's notes the night before, and usually do pretty well. This test however, dropped me to a B for the class. Looking back, I should have tried harder.
 
I loved reading her slam table section after taking that class. You could see her section from a mile away because there was so many comments.
 
this one is easy. physics 316 i think, electricity and magnetism. there were 3 tests during the semester plus the final. my scores on each of the 60 point tests were 5, 15, 25. I ended up with a B in the class.

as for D for diploma, my last semester I took a computer science class in which i ignored most of the homework assignments in favor of my two chemistry classes and labs - advanced analytic chem and inorganic. i do well on all tests but receive an F for the total grade. i visit the prof and tell her i am a chem major and am supposed to graduate in a week. she looked up my score on the final, which was around a 90, and bumped me to a D.

my final semester gpa was like a 1.9. but i got the paper.
 
I made a 50 (out of 100) on my first history exam. I made a 50 (out of 100) on the first paper. Both grades came out the same day. That was also 50% of the total grade.

So I had to make a 100 on everything just to make a C (70-74 was D, 75-79 was C). I made a deal with the prof: If I showed substantial improvement on the last paper and test, then he'd give me a B. He went for it, and I made a B in the class.
 
I distinctly remember a 37 on a physics exam, it was good for a high C. It's memorable because many of the tightly wound bookish kids left in tears. I remember one tiny little asian girl was upset, crying and then she kicked the glass door to enter/exit the building, shattering it. Funny thing was, that class got easier as it went.

I have successfully blocked out my worst grades from that D in statistics. All I know is I talked the professor into that D so I could graduate.

And don't even ask me about this econ class I had. Hiroshima and Nagasaki got nothing on me.
 
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