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Jokerhelper
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Hello guys. I was wondering if you guys could give me your opinion/advice for the following scenario:
Yesterday I wrote my first midterm in statics (1st year engineering), which is worth 30% of the final mark. The written part of this exam, worth half of the entire midterm, consisted in a series of questions that built upon one another; hence, get the first one wrong and the everything else falls apart. In my case, the first question asked for the following:
"Determine the moment due to the tension force along the vertical axis passing through O."
The way I understood the question was that I had to find the force along the vertical axis and then calculate its moment about O. The solutions for this exam were uploaded today and it turns out I was wrong. What she meant was "Determine the moment along the vertical axis passing through O due to the tension force." In hindsight, I probably should have understood that she wanted to test our knowledge of the scalar triple product.
As you can imagine, I got the rest of the question set wrong, although I did apply the correct concepts for each of them (except the first one of course). If I'm lucky I might a few half marks, but I know I already lost at least good 10% of my final mark. I generally tend to shy away from going to an instructor to "ask for marks" or anything similar, but do you guys think I should at least bring up what I felt was ambiguous wording? Or do I just look silly by doing all this and I am in the wrong?
Yesterday I wrote my first midterm in statics (1st year engineering), which is worth 30% of the final mark. The written part of this exam, worth half of the entire midterm, consisted in a series of questions that built upon one another; hence, get the first one wrong and the everything else falls apart. In my case, the first question asked for the following:
"Determine the moment due to the tension force along the vertical axis passing through O."
The way I understood the question was that I had to find the force along the vertical axis and then calculate its moment about O. The solutions for this exam were uploaded today and it turns out I was wrong. What she meant was "Determine the moment along the vertical axis passing through O due to the tension force." In hindsight, I probably should have understood that she wanted to test our knowledge of the scalar triple product.
As you can imagine, I got the rest of the question set wrong, although I did apply the correct concepts for each of them (except the first one of course). If I'm lucky I might a few half marks, but I know I already lost at least good 10% of my final mark. I generally tend to shy away from going to an instructor to "ask for marks" or anything similar, but do you guys think I should at least bring up what I felt was ambiguous wording? Or do I just look silly by doing all this and I am in the wrong?