trigfail
New Zealand
Today, I failed my trigonometry exam because my scientific calculator was on the wrong setting. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Top comments
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)
nisey3313 11
radian is a bitch
beth2011 0
oh my gosh!!!... I totally did that the other day too!:(
iheartfob 0
Meh I did that in the summer and only bothered to sort the settings out last week.
Jociek 4
radians and not degrees, right? been there ;-)
Jociek 4
just because you can use a calculator doesn't mean it's easy, dumbass! You obviously have around an 8th grade education. REAL math generally requires a calculator. Knowing how to solve the problem and correctly use the calculator is the challenge. It's not addition you dumb-****!
mad2physicist 0
REAL math NEVER requires, or even ALLOWS, a calculator, you dumb fück!. In real math everything is proofs, proofs, and more proofs. And even when computations are done, they're generally left in terms of variables. Clearly you mean the kind of pussy math done by engineers, not REAL math.
HappyPickles 11
The aim of the exam was to determine if you can get the correct answers. You didn't, so the exam correctly proved you were incompetent at using a calculator. Exams: 1; OP: 0
NewThink 0
Had you known what you should have about math, the answers should have looked wrong. Solution? Check next time. I always check by asking what the sine of pi over two is.
jackie31337 0
YDI for relying on a calculator. Back in my day, we just drew a unit circle to determine the value of the trig functions at different radian angles. If we were lucky, they let us use a slide rule. (Yes, I'm officially old.)
MrJentipede 2
Degrees vs. radians, really? Surely you would realize the answers are far off, I suspect you would have failed anyway.
42billybob 5
agreed. i haven't done trig in a while but doesn't degree mode deal with the 360 range and radian mode deal with like... 3 and a bit? you were shifting decimals weren't you?