What was your worst test score in college?

[Deeko]

A professor gave me a 0 on a midterm because I was at volleyball nationals - I told him about it ahead of time and gave him a letter from the athletic director and everything. I ended up getting a 57 in the course...aka failing. Thanks Dr. Goh!

 

[Gooberlx2]

Oh Christ. Something well below the failing grade, probably in C++. I happily took a D in the class just to get on with my life (and that was with the curve). It was easily my worst class in college. I suck at and hate programming.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Deeko
A professor gave me a 0 on a midterm because I was at volleyball nationals - I told him about it ahead of time and gave him a letter from the athletic director and everything. I ended up getting a 57 in the course...aka failing. Thanks Dr. Goh!

You didn't take it up with the Dean? Maybe such excuses need to be approved by the dept. head or Dean anyway?

 

[slackwarelinux]

59% on a Calculus I test, it was curved up to 79%. My final grade was a B+.

I'm only on my first year of college though, I've still got plenty of chances to beat that record

 

[nageov3t]

0, because I overslept for the midterm.

I ended up getting an A in the class because I was able to convince the prof that I was there and that he must have lost my exam... he bought it and just factored my grade out with the missing exam out of the equation. since my average was otherwise an A (95+ on eveyr other test/paper), I ended up with an A.

 

[IronWing]

17% on chemistry exam.


Turned out that 17% netted me a C on the exam. B for the course. Chem profs have this thing for ridiculously hard exams with complimentary curves.

Edit: just noticed posts above. Same idea.

 

[Imported]

I think I got like a 17 or 19 out of 180 on a midterm.. Got a 165/170 or something on the Final and escaped with a B+

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
That I can remember, I think it'd be a 65%, in intro chemistry. Got a B in the class.
But then, they did fire that professor after just one semester. He had only just gotten his Ph. D. the spring semester before he started teaching in the fall. I guess he didn't know how to teach.
For what it's worth though, I didn't study one bit for that class. I had chemistry in 10th grade, and the residual knowledge was enough to suck out all motivation to study.

Heh, same here. I got a 60 on my first chemistry test (one of the lowest grades in the class), the first test I took in college. I thought I remembered enough from high school to forego studying. Evidently not. I did manage an A overall, but I had to bust my ass to do it.

That was my most memorable bad grade. I probably got lower scores on some tests in hard classes later on, but who cares as long as you stay above class average and know a big curve is coming.

 

[WombRaider]

I got my accounting test back today and it was a 78%. The class average was 58% so my test will end up being like a B+ or A-.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: loki8481
0, because I overslept for the midterm.

I ended up getting an A in the class because I was able to convince the prof that I was there and that he must have lost my exam... he bought it and just factored my grade out with the missing exam out of the equation. since my average was otherwise an A (95+ on eveyr other test/paper), I ended up with an A.

Brilliant. :laugh:

Probably around 30% on a chem test my first semester, ended up flunking the class (as well as most of my others) and getting dismissed. Am much more focused now, though; don't think I've received less than a 70% on a test since. I just screwed around way too much my first semester, a lot of it was easier stuff that I had already done a bit of in HS. What hurt me most I think was not showing up to labs and stupid stuff like that.

 

[sash1]

i got a 14 on a Bio test once. yeah, i hated Bio. got a B in the class.

 

[Modelworks]

64 calculus
failed the class
I hate math
And I became an engineer.
Talk about doing a job you hate.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Got a 40ish on my first History of SE Asia test. Ended up with an A- in the class anyway, but it kinda shook me up since I generally don't get below a 90 on tests.

 

[tfinch2]

My first college test (Biology) I got a 36. I was ready to quit school.

I ended up getting A's on the next two tests, and a B in the class.

 

[Strk]

I got a 19 in a stats class. The professor had a policy where the final could wipe out any grade lower than it though. I got a 98 on the final.

 

[deejayshakur]

forgot, but got a C- in neuroanatomy in college. had to take it again in med school and got an A. booyah.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Deeko
A professor gave me a 0 on a midterm because I was at volleyball nationals - I told him about it ahead of time and gave him a letter from the athletic director and everything. I ended up getting a 57 in the course...aka failing. Thanks Dr. Goh!

You didn't take it up with the Dean? Maybe such excuses need to be approved by the dept. head or Dean anyway?

I probably could have talked to the department head or dean, but at the time it didn't really occur to me. Oh well, it was prob/stat, I took prob/stat II the next term anyway (had already signed up so I bypassed the prereq) and passed that just fine, and then ended up retaking prob/stat I the next term and doing fine the second round.

At that point I tried to get my advisor to drop the failed course from my record, but she wouldn't do it, and it was senior year so all it would do is help my GPA...meh, by that point it wasn't worth the effort.

 

[alkemyst]

My worst was an unintended zero. Freaking biochem teacher would change classroom location on test days right at class start, all tests were unscheduled. The class was a 7:30am winter term class in Gainesville, he mostly screwed all us bike riders.

I dropped the class due to an injury my wife had, but many people were talking about the same thing...the guy wasn't a great teacher, mostly told us what to read on our own and then was just there to answer questions.