Does Anyone Else Do Worse in your "Easy" Classes Compared to the "Hard" Ones?
I don't know why, but somehow, I always end up doing worse in my "easy" classes compared to my hard classes. Like, I took a quiz in Intermediate Accounting, supposedly one of the hardest classes at my school, and got 100%, but I took a quiz in my joke econ class and marketing and only got Bs on them. I've noticed that consistently I've underperformed in the classes that people say are easy, but do well in the "legitimate" classes. Has anyone else ever had this problem?
Yes all the time. In my commerce program I excel in the "harder" classes (commerce is profitable, however it's basically a soft major) like accounting and finance, and I lag in easier courses like business information systems and business law.
Yeah. I killed econometrics but got killed in highlights of astronomy...
OMG dude same. I got straight A's in my Intermediate Microeco/Macro classes & Bio classes, but I got a B in my Psych, so I made it Pass/No Credit. WTF, you know. Hoping for a 4.0 this semester.
i got 2 b's in english :I opinionated teachers >
Got As in advanced math classes(stochastic calc, pde, real analysis etc) but b+ in bullshit accounting and management classes...fml
Because the majority of people out there are not "mathematically" competent. As a result, "math" or "logic" heavy classes are often classified as the most difficult ones. The fluff ones, where you have to answer questions based on your "opinion," are generally classified as easy.
Smart people tend to be very math/logic oriented. It is easy for these people to get A's in the "difficult" classes -- the difficult classes have questions with concrete right/wrong answers. On the other hand, they struggle with consistently acing the easy classes. This is because they lose a lot of their competitive advantage (smartness) when doing things such as writing essays. In these situations, a less intelligent person is harder to identify than an intelligent person.
Whereas it's easy to meaningfully study the differences between lyapunov and structural stability? Really depends on where your interests lie.
If you can't write essays does that not make you "not smart?". Is someone who's a brilliant writer, yet terrible with even basic arithmetic, "not intelligent"? Not saying you're doing it in you're post, but I feel too many people ascribe intelligence to mathematical or scientific ability when intelligence can just as easily be evidenced through ability in social science and the arts as well.
yes because i was interested in abc classes but xyz were of little concern to me so i rather play world of warcraft in college
i did, but i never went to my easy classes cause i got bored. I remember sitting in a stats class, and they asked me the probability of getting a jack in a deck of cards....last time i went to that class. Got a B. Meanwhile I had an A in Quantum Mechanics, Measure Theory etc.
Plus, when a class was boring I could usually find a partner in crime to go to the bar with
Have you thought of it differently? Ask yourelf instead that maybe you are better at hard classes and worse in easy classes? Maybe you are a person who enjoys the hard or difficult aspects of life, while not caring about the easy aspects of life. Or most probably, your just lucky in the hard courses? BTW, most people prefer the easy aspects of life. The people who enjoy the hard aspects of life are rare. So make you know something about you self before droping a course.
From my experience, profs of easier courses grade a lot harder and are very weird in the wording of exams, %'s allocated to different types of assignments and LOVE to give B's to like 80% of the class and only give As to the 5% of brown nosers that worship them
Had this problem as well. Took what was supposed to be an easy psych class where each exam was 180 T/F questions. Kicked my ass.
Definitely took what was supposed to be a BS "financial math" class. Keep in mind I'm a finance major... I couldn't be fucked to actually apply formulas to problems because I know how to do it in Excel. Led to a worse grade than I expected going in.
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