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As an electronic engineering student, our exams were negatively marked. If you got an answer wrong you incurred (-0.25 * $availablePoints). If you didn't answer
by mikecsh 10y ago
As an electronic engineering student, our exams were negatively marked. If you got an answer wrong you incurred (-0.25 * $availablePoints). If you didn't answer the question you scored 0. We despised this at the time..
Now a medical student, we don't have negative marking. I feel it's actually very important in this discipline to know your limitations and not pass-off as though you know more than you do. I have however encountered resistance to this, having professors question my very reasons for doing medicine due to leaving questions unanswered..!
- datburg 10y agoDo not worry. We know the ocean of knowledge they throw/threw us in with full expectation of us drinking in all that new material while being surrounded with sharks and there is a heavy storm that keeps a person from taking a breath. Still Medical school kicks ass and life after it is colorless. Also, why are you complaining? With 4 Subjects tested every week year 2, 40 genes implicated in ovarian cancer and their frequencies are over the top. The only time I was disappointed was when a concept slipped because of the lack of waling minutes to master. Concepts are more important now as I see it in an age when any symptom or fact that slips can be double checked. Best years of my life!
- mikecsh 10y agoI wasn't complaining, but thanks for this!