how can I fail a take away exam!!?!?

[-Davo]

ok, i got this exam a few weeks ago at the end of session of uni, right, and all term i was getting high 70-90% in every assesment, and I get this exam to take away for over a week, right? And I take 4 days to do it. I do a shit load of research, and I carefully answered these questions.

With the hours of effort I put into the fucking test, I was expecting no less than 80%
I get my results yesturday, and I get 46-fucking-%.

WHAT!?!?

How!??

On top of that, I also failed my geology class (didn't matter to me, I was kinda expecting it). But I put 4-5 hours per day for 3 weeks straight into studying for that stupid test.

This is bullshit. I'm going to be seing a few people when Uni starts back in 2 weeks time.


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[Toksin]

You failed a take home test?

What the hell?

[-Davo]

That's what I'm saying

This isn't something I'm proud of.

This is one of those "how did you break you leg doing that" things.

*ED* I got 46%. A fail is just under that, I got a Pass, but in my standards, it's a fail.

[RSX-S777]

Man. Failing a take-home exam is like getting fired on your day off. Sorry to hear. Also- how do you go and fail geology?! Are you a party boy or something?

[Raz_Kaz]

46% is a pass? Damnm, sorry to hear about the exam, but your lucky...52% is barely a pass over here

[lamehonda]

what class?

[-Davo]

Music Theory

[Oz]

I thought you failed a test from a take away restaurant. And I thought, man that guy must be dumb.

[Mediocrity]

lol dude. Doing a take-home exam is asking to be fucked in the ass.

[lamehonda]

Originally Posted by -Davo

Music Theory

Music theory! that sounds pretty dumb! hope you don't have to take it again.

PS. any class with a name ending in theory should be avoided at all cost

[-Davo]

hmm, Music Advanced Acoustic Theory, to be exact.

hey Oz, I went the Novatel in Botany a few months ago, and they have a test! I failed that too.

[Andydg]

70% is the first passing percentage for me. Damn...46% on a take home test, your teacher must have it in for you.

[-Davo]

Yeah, or I fucked up the answers something serious.

But I still don't understand. There were two parts to the exam, 8 multiple choise question, worth 20% of the exam. I know I got most of them right, it was stupid questions. I can't remember them now.

The other 80% was 12 differant names, of Acoustic Theory, and we had to chose 8 and write a paragraph on them

Here are my answers:

Takeaway Examination


1. Reverberation Time.

In a mathematical sense, a sound’s intensity will never reach perfect 0, but gets too low to register. When a sound does get too low to register, we call it 0, although that’s not theoretically correct. The time needed for a sound to get to 0, is called the ‘reverberation time’.


2. Simple Harmonic motion.

The most common wave found in nature. When you drop a stone in a pond, and radio waves, both, simple harmonic motion. Simple harmonic motion is typified by the motion of a mass on a spring when it is subject to the linear elastic restoring force. (help from http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)


3. The Pythagorean comma

A comma is a small interval between a note formed by one cycle of just intervals and the same note formed by another cycle or different just intervals. The Pythagorean comma is the difference between 12 just perfect fifths up and 7 octaves up (http://sonic-arts.org). You cannot tune a circle of 5ths and end up where you started.


4. Reflection of sound waves

When a wave is moving through a medium (such as air, water, or a solid object) and reaches a boundary where the properties of the medium suddenly change, the wave is reflected. As soon as the reflection has occurred, refraction takes place. This is the wave in a distorted form. This usually happens when the wave hits a lesser, or denser medium, such as glass, wood, or concrete.


5. Analogue to Digital converters.

This device converts the analogue signal into binary form of 1’s and 0’s. It transforms the electrical signal into numbers, the electrical signal is proportional to the size of the numbers. The analogue signal is a sine wave, the digital wave is a “Square wave”. The analogue wave is the typical wave, the digital wave is the computerized wave usually found on CD’s.



6. Equal Temperament

Originally designed for keyboard instruments (such as keyboards, pianos etc) so that they could play equally well, or badly in any key. The equal tempered system uses a constant frequency multiple between notes of the chromatic scale. (http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html). In other words, you can play a piece in any key, and it will sound good, and not out of key (so long as the other instruments [if any] are playing in your key as well). Or sound badly, depending on how you want to look at it.


7. Timbre

Timbre is also another fancy word for ‘Tone Quality’. It describes the characteristics of a tone that separates it from others of the same frequency and intensity (loudness)


8. Threshold Intensity

Threshold intensity is the level at which sound can barely be heard with the human ear. If we turn the volume of a natural sound down to the point where it can just be heard, that’s the threshold intensity.

What's wrong with them?

[Mediocrity]

You did pisspoor answers for a take home exam.

Take home exams are intentionally made harder, and expected more out of as well. If you get a week to do them, two sentence answers are jack shit.

No offense meant, just telling you.

[EighteenVisions]

Don't worry, we won't hold your mental capacity against you...











damn retard