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
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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
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Today, I got my precalculus final back from my teacher. I got a 17%. I told her that there had to be some mistake, because my classmate had the same answers as me and she got 100%. Not only did I accidentally admit to cheating, but our test papers had different questions. FML
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Pretty_Pink_Lady 10
You didn't calculate a good exam plan, OP, but I won't go off on a tangent...
Pleonasm 36
YDI cos(you are a moron).
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Comments (124)
ribbons 23
Maybe you'll get extra "badass points" for answering everything with out a calculator?
HortonThelephant 15
You - calculator ≤ Failure. Sucks to be you OP.
nielzs 12
Real calculus can be done without a calculator
perdix 31
"Take it to the limit one more time."
MrPlopper 9
Daft Punk reference?
perdix 31
No, a double-entendre between The Eagles and differential calculus.
SammyS2012 21
I haven't used calculators in math for 3 years. You get used to it and it really is possible to do it without them.
illmatic2 16
Depends on what kind of math you're doing and how good at mental math you are. Not everybody can count like ******* rainman.
SammyS2012 21
Calculus is mainly memorization. You remember the sine, cosine, and tangent of pi/3, pi/4,pi/6 because those are the most commonly used ones (should also remember the unit circle) and you're pretty much set. Calculus is mainly derivatives and integrals which don't require a calculator; they're only formulas to remember. I'm horrible at mental math because the numbers switch places in my head and I can still do it.
Ally156 5
What's a precalculus exam? I know it's a maths exam but what sort of questions are on the exam paper?
sierramott1 6
That's exactly what happened when I took the SAT's . I was so pissed
fmmfl1993 1
I forgot mine for the ACTs and a bunch of other times. I'm not good with calculators
LordOfLincoln 6
Real mathematicians do not need calculators.
MeLikeBigBoom 8
Just ask the teacher, mine has a drawer of like 50.
yeti37 16
real men use a slide rule. if they could land Apollo 13 using one, you can too. man up, OP.