dvdngu
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19 hours ago, telkanuru said:
This has always struck me as a strange bit of the hard sciences. If the average student in your class can correctly answer 50% of the material on a test, there's something wrong with the teacher.
Yeah, 60% averages are normal from my experience. From what I've heard, the logic behind designing tests with averages in this range is to give a good differentiation between A students and C students since a normal distribution is normally achieved with a large enough standard deviation. Averages around 90% will give you just a few point difference between high and low achieving students (and the same logic on the other side of the spectrum). The scary thing is, if i knew someone was designing a plane with 50-60% competency, I would never step on a plane ever again.
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I am in my first quarter of graduate school in engineering. I was expecting a change of pace in graduate classes compared to my undergraduate classes, but nonetheless, I am definitely struggling to grasp the material that is presented. Sometimes, when I am in class thinking "what the hell is the professor trying to say," I look around and see a handful of students nodding as though every single word is prior knowledge to them. On top of that, these students never take ANY notes in class, while I am frantically writing down the nonsense uttered by the professors for me to decipher later on. This makes me feel SO much more inadequate in my abilities. I feel as though I am so far behind all of the other students playing a desperate game of "catch up."
Secondly, I've heard of averages on midterms and finals as low as 15-20%. Are these things normal? I would be in a state of complete panic if I was only able to answer 15% of a test. Averages in my undergrad classes seldom dropped below 55% (which I already thought was very low). What are your experiences?
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Will be attending UCLA this fall for Aerospace Engineering! Time to look at housing @.@
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On 3/4/2016 at 8:55 AM, sl said:
Should I assume rejection then ?
Not yet! I met one person who got accepted to ME at Berkeley when I was at the UCLA visit day yesterday.
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14 hours ago, sl said:
I applied to Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA for a M.S
Has anyone heard from these schools yet ?
Heard from Berkeley (applied MS given MEng) today and UCLA (accepted) ~2 weeks ago.
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5 hours ago, MechE2016 said:
@dvdngu
(Sorry about MIT), I see that you've been accepted to UCLA where I have been accepted as well, have you heard anything on funding? Or do you know anything about how or when those decisions are to be made?
No word on funding. Simply said they will contact me with funding info if i applied.No idea when that normally is )=
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Will be visiting on Friday !!
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accepted for aerospace engineering MS, but waiting on other schools !
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Undergrad Institution:Mid-Tier California University
Major(s): ME & AE
Minor(s):
GPA in Major: 3.87
Overall GPA: 3.87
Position in Class: no idea
Type of Student:
GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 165
V: 157
W: 4.5
Research Experience: 6 months at uni + 1 summer at NASA
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Just good grades
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 1 summer at NASA
Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: meh. Eagle Scout?
Special Bonus Points:
Applying to Where:
MIT - Aero/Astro (PhD/MS)
Berkeley - ME (MS)
UCLA - ME (MS)
UCI - ME/AE (MS)
USC - AE (PhD)
UW - Aero/Astro (MS)
UT Austin - AE (MS)
Unprepared & Exhausted
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This is a VERY good way to study. When I was an undergrad, I rarely ever studied. Well, in a traditional sense. I would essentially re teach my friends the material presented in the class. Though my lesson would be shaky at first, I would eventually be able to convey the concepts clearly and concisely. In my experience, the professors have been teaching the same material for years and years, so things that are apparent to them might not be so obvious to students. So, in being able to simplify the lessons in MY OWN words and teach it to other students, I can ensure that I fully understand a concept. Only when I couldn't clearly explain something in the class would I go back and review my notes/book until i would be able to.