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Hello, I just got my midterm back and kind of very disappointed. I am a Grade 12 student taking programming in C++. I am using the C++ for you++ book, which is kind of dry and doesn't explain alot.
I took a course in C last year. I was very good at it. Was the top of my rather small class. This year, I don't know what's going on, I can't seem to excel at computer science no matter how much effort I put into it. I read over all the revelant chapters in the book, i took very careful notes-over 30 pages. Not only that, in case I didn't understand it completely, i wrote little paragraphs summarizing each of the important topics in the book. I have attached them here so you can see.
I asked in advance what type of midterm it was. I was told it was similar to the Advance Placement style of exam. So I went around on the internet, downloaded past exams, sample multiple choice questions etc.. I studied hard for it. I even had a good sleep the night before the midterm. I spent every moment of my waking hour preparing for the exam. I even devouted all my lunch hours reading the book.
There was someone else who didn't prepare at all until the night before. She went in and got a 97% on the midterm while I had to beg to get a 90%. I usually do a little bit better than the guy beside me and he got a 95%. I don't get it.
I lost like 5 marks in multiple choice. I didn't get to see all the mistakes but I had one really stupid. It was a question about what has to be included to enable input/output in C++. The answer of course is <iostream.h>. Well, there was one on top of it called iostream.h. I of course picked that for some reason. Didn't see the one below. Don't know what happened. This usually doesn't happen to me.
On the programming section, i lost about 2.5 marks. 0.5 was lost because teacher said I didn't use a specific command. He said to use it in part a but nothing was mentioned in part b( both parts are separate questions). I used a short loop instead but it gets the job done. 1 mark was lost because the teacher didn't quite understand my logic at first. i got that mark back. I lost another mark because my solution wasn't elegant. I wrote about a page worth of code when it could be done in a paragraph.
I just don't get it. I study very hard for it but I can't seem to do well in it. People who review only the night before do way better than me. This is kind of discouraging. What I am doing wrong? Is computer science really for the smart people but not for those who works hard?
I took a course in C last year. I was very good at it. Was the top of my rather small class. This year, I don't know what's going on, I can't seem to excel at computer science no matter how much effort I put into it. I read over all the revelant chapters in the book, i took very careful notes-over 30 pages. Not only that, in case I didn't understand it completely, i wrote little paragraphs summarizing each of the important topics in the book. I have attached them here so you can see.
I asked in advance what type of midterm it was. I was told it was similar to the Advance Placement style of exam. So I went around on the internet, downloaded past exams, sample multiple choice questions etc.. I studied hard for it. I even had a good sleep the night before the midterm. I spent every moment of my waking hour preparing for the exam. I even devouted all my lunch hours reading the book.
There was someone else who didn't prepare at all until the night before. She went in and got a 97% on the midterm while I had to beg to get a 90%. I usually do a little bit better than the guy beside me and he got a 95%. I don't get it.
I lost like 5 marks in multiple choice. I didn't get to see all the mistakes but I had one really stupid. It was a question about what has to be included to enable input/output in C++. The answer of course is <iostream.h>. Well, there was one on top of it called iostream.h. I of course picked that for some reason. Didn't see the one below. Don't know what happened. This usually doesn't happen to me.
On the programming section, i lost about 2.5 marks. 0.5 was lost because teacher said I didn't use a specific command. He said to use it in part a but nothing was mentioned in part b( both parts are separate questions). I used a short loop instead but it gets the job done. 1 mark was lost because the teacher didn't quite understand my logic at first. i got that mark back. I lost another mark because my solution wasn't elegant. I wrote about a page worth of code when it could be done in a paragraph.
I just don't get it. I study very hard for it but I can't seem to do well in it. People who review only the night before do way better than me. This is kind of discouraging. What I am doing wrong? Is computer science really for the smart people but not for those who works hard?