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ITT: we share silly mistakes/solutions we realised only after finishing an exam or test

>Making a table of results
>forget to label quantity with units
>mfw only had to put /s and /s^2
>mfw also converted cm to m by x10^-3
>mfw during exam was debating whether to try my best or not
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>>8014133
>Exam linear algebra
>Question about multilinearity, give definitions >for ml in rows and columns.
>Write it out for columns, and write "mutatis >mutandis for the rows".
>Asks to apply ml on a given example.
>Mfw I don't see how this is possible.
>Keep trying and trying, single matrix gets
>split up in 16 matrices...
>I have to hand it in.
>mfw it was simply ml in the rows.
>mfw I didn't notice it because I didn't
>write the full definition.
>mfw mutatis mutandis
On mobile idk how the greentext will be...
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>>8014739
lmao
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>be me
>histology class
>quiz asks us to write short answer about desmosomes
>write desmomemes instead
>repeated for entire quiz
>failed

gg
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Finished the exam phase of my education a couple years ago, but the equivalent still sometimes happens.

>Come up with mathematical hypothesis
>Spend hours trying to prove it
>Realize it's obviously false
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>problem A looks tough, i'll save that one for later
>problem A+1 looks easy enough
>work for 10 minutes on problem A+1, go through 10 sheets of scratch paper
>look at the clock every 10 seconds
>the stress causes my muscles to contract to the point where i can barely move my fingers
>have to rotate my entire upper body to work the problem
>praise odin i have arrived at a solution
>write solution down in problem A solution box
>there were only 6 problems on the test
>professor gives me a C
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>>8014133
>highschool calc exam
>brain fart
>forget natural log of 0
>20 point question requires ln(0) to be taken
>question number 5
>20 question exam
>spend entire time trying to derive it
>somehow forgot exponential rules
>"15 minutes left"
>nigger
>intense illogical math theory scribbles
>hand it in 7/20 questions done
>ask teach what the ln(0) is
>mfw
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>freshman year
>diff eq exam
> I got this
>Leave exam thinking I got 100%
>3 days later...
>I got a B
>wat how
>Look at my answers
>I used the fucking quadratic formula wrong when taking roots of the characteristic equations.
>THE FUCKING QUADRATIC FORMULA
>THAT I MEMORIZED, (in song form), IN 7TH GRADE!
>that was the only thing i did wrong
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>>8014897
>keep going cuz fuck it, why not
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>doing simple math problem
>presents equation of a line in some messy format, asks which quadrant the line doesn't pass through
>get sign wrong on y-intercept of line
>get numbering of quadrants wrong, mix up II and IV
>two mistakes cancel out
>right answer
>catch errors later when going over my work
>mfw

(I was a high school sophomore)
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>>8014897
sameish feel
i don't remember why, but i was trying to prove that there is a non-0 function that has 0 jerk at 0, basically a curve that starts as smoothly as can possibly be. it was for a thought experiment of mine, no academic obligations, so i would touch on it for several months with big intervals. then, about a week ago as i was returning from the gym with my buddy, not even having it on my mind, i remembered that taylor series are a thing. i felt completely retarded.
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>>8014739
the greentext was horrible, i know there's a good story in there but i'm not going to put in the effort to make sense of it
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