What would you have done in my position

[Mo0o]

I'm current taking a summer physics class at UW with a couple of my friends. I'm a nonmatriculated student so my GPA in this place doesn't really matter, especially since i can't transfer this credit over to my university. So basically I'm in it for the knowledge that i need for the MCATs this august. My friends ARE matriculants at UW so their grades in this class matters. So when the midterm rolled around, my friends wanted me to just skip the test, dragging down the curve instead of risk me bumping it up. I thought about that for a while but in the end I still showed up just to see where I'm at and what i know and dont know.

what would you guys hvae done?

edit: oh yeah i got 97/100 and that was the highest score :laugh:

 

[bradruth]

I'd take it, but I'm not one to skip stuff.

 

[hypn0tik]

I'd take it to see where I stand in relation with everyone else.

 

[david46675]

one person skipping the test wouldnt really bring the curve down all that much (i'm guessing since its a general physics class its a rather large class)
i say screw your friends and take the test so that you can find out how much you really know about physics, you shouldnt let your friends hold you back from being all that you can be!

 

[eigen]

I have this whitebread calvinist guilt complex.So I dont skip stuff.But I dont think it would be wrong to do either.

 

[Mrvile]

I don't do crap like that, no matter how good of friends we are. I'da taken it.

 

[AdamSnow]

I would have taken it as well...

I think your friends should study harder instead of getting you to skip out to get their average up.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I'm current taking a summer physics class at UW with a couple of my friends. I'm a nonmatriculated student so my GPA in this place doesn't really matter, especially since i can't transfer this credit over to my university. So basically I'm in it for the knowledge that i need for the MCATs this august. My friends ARE matriculants at UW so their grades in this class matters. So when the midterm rolled around, my friends wanted me to just skip the test, dragging down the curve instead of risk me bumping it up. I thought about that for a while but in the end I still showed up just to see where I'm at and what i know and dont know.

what would you guys hvae done?

edit: oh yeah i got 97/100 and that was the highest score :laugh:

I HATED people like you when I was in school. That said...I would have taken the test.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

would have taken it, unless it was early in the morning

 

[brigden]

I would have taken the test.

 

[Sentinel]

I definitely would have taken it, fvck skipping.

 

[rudder]

look up nonmatriculated in the dictionary.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
would have taken it, unless it was early in the morning

9:40 ish. Had to wake up at 8 AM, one of the reasons I considered not going

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Toasthead

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I'm current taking a summer physics class at UW with a couple of my friends. I'm a nonmatriculated student so my GPA in this place doesn't really matter, especially since i can't transfer this credit over to my university. So basically I'm in it for the knowledge that i need for the MCATs this august. My friends ARE matriculants at UW so their grades in this class matters. So when the midterm rolled around, my friends wanted me to just skip the test, dragging down the curve instead of risk me bumping it up. I thought about that for a while but in the end I still showed up just to see where I'm at and what i know and dont know.

what would you guys hvae done?

edit: oh yeah i got 97/100 and that was the highest score :laugh:

I HATED people like you when I was in school. That said...I would have taken the test.

You hated successful people?

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
I'd take it to see where I stand in relation with everyone else.

yep, the whole point of a test.

 

[habib89]

taken it for sure.. if anything, for the same reason you did, just to see where i am in the class and wether i need to work harder or not

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: rudder
look up nonmatriculated in the dictionary.

http://www.summer.washington.edu/summer/fees/nonmatric.asp

Sorry, UW refers students like me to be nonmatriculated so that's what i used.

 

[PHiuR]

i would have taken it if I was ready for it...if not.. then skip!

 

[Phoenix86]

Would the prof even count a "skipped" test as a 0 for the curve? I doubt it. The probably would have not counted that score in the curve.

Now posting 97/100, that fvcked the curve.

 

[akodi]

don't take a fall for something stupid like that.

 

[Britboy]

Isn't taking the test part of the benefit you are looking for, in that it will help you be better prepared when it really counts.

I would have taken the test with the aim of outscoring them for fun.

 

[DocBartend]

Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd take it, but I'm not one to skip stuff.

 

[akubi]

summer physics course... meaning the class presumably consists of students who failed the class during regular semester.
quite an accomplishment there champ, beating the curve. :roll:

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: akubi
summer physics course... meaning the class presumably consists of students who failed the class during regular semester.
quite an accomplishment there champ, beating the curve. :roll:

No most of the time its when people take the first quarter of physics either during spring or winter quarter. ATleast that was the case with my friends. Everyone i know that are taking summer classes is taking it for the first time, not as a repeat.

 

[bigj3347]

tell them to study more and stop trying get an easyt cop out . . .