trigfail
New Zealand
Today, I failed my trigonometry exam because my scientific calculator was on the wrong setting. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
anonymous
Tucson, United States
Today, I have a final for my precalculus class. After hours of studying this week, I felt pretty optimistic. Until I got to class and realized that I'd forgotten my calculator. FML
hopeless
United States
Today, I cheated on my math exam. I still failed. FML
Anonymous
United States
Today, a few people in my class used calculators on the math final exam, even though it clearly stated at the top that they weren't allowed. The teacher found out, and now everyone has to retake the 200-question exam. I didn't even use a calculator. FML
riya
Today, I had the worst day of my life. I'd studied science for the whole damn night, only to realize the next morning that it's a math exam. FML
RaastadAarseth
70% less brain power
Today, I had a very hard and long exam and I was completely prepared for it. I was so confident in my abilities and I'd studied really hard. When I entered the exam hall and took the paper, I realized that I had forgotten to bring my calculator. FML
risingtide
Today, I reached my exam center late after taking the wrong metro twice, only to find out that I forgot my calculator at home. FML
mathhhh
United States
Today, I missed points on a math quiz because I thought 2 times 5 was 20. I'm a math major. FML
Anonymous
France
Shut down
Today, I finished an exam in physics class. It counts for 40% of our grade. As I handed my paper in to my teacher, she said to the whole class while talking about me, "You did this wrong; this isn't how you do it." FML
Anonymous
Santa Rosa, United States
Who are you calling random?!
Today, I failed a calculus exam because I simply was too burnt out to study for it. I have not wanted to even look at a math problem since the beginning of the year, and I procrastinate all day instead of doing work, and it leads me here, typing at 2 a.m. to random strangers while having to get up tomorrow at 7. FML
PNeil
Time wasting
Today, after having spent all of last night studying for an algebra test, I find out that the test was on a completely different chapter of my textbook. FML
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albinoV 1
You had it set to "radian" when you wanted "degree" am I right?
tatiee_fml 0
Hahaha. And you didn't notice this at all...Shame on you, not the calculator.
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Comments (189)
daniel_acelticsf 0
why would you need a calculator for trig? moron
sj913 0
I've don that before. don't feel bad!
tj79 3
so basically you fail because you are an idiot
tj79 3
too bad 24 is jailbait
horizonflyer9 0
uh check your work next time?
u_r_idiot 1
n00b you didn't figure it out when all of your answers like 1.546 degrees
dirtyoldman27560 0
Shows my age. When I was in school, we learned how to do it all by hand, then check our results with a calculator. In some classes or tests, calculators weren't even allowed. Calculators are there to make our tasks simpler, not to replace the basic knowledge required. Learn your subjects instead of the short cuts. Oh, and my sophomore year I didn't have a calculator at all for the first two semesters. I still finished faster, and more accurately, than my classmates. Once I got one for Christmas, my test times increased and my scores dropped. After two weeks I quit using it. So yeah, I'm in the YDI camp. Kudos to the responders with the great puns.
lover_of_life 8
That happens to me almost every day. Taking Calculus and Physics means I'm switching constantly. I usually figure it out when I get sin X = 0.5743673. How does a person not notice something's wrong when they get a ridiculously small number for an angle?
ChiefLancaster 0
May, you guys are fricken stupid,,,
FFML_314 12
I like the smell of sex in the morning, but that's just me.
redbull33_fml 0
I don't think that's the only reason you failed...