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Shame over my Cost Accounting midterm has motivated me to begin work on my MBA IS take-home midterm early.
And one of the questions is a subset of the topic we presented about
on Wednesday! Sweet.
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Cost Accounting midterm was brutal -- may have flunked it :(
I couldn't remember how to do all the steps in process costing, and there was a big multi-step problem that was 35% of the exam. I tried reinventing it but I don't know if I did it right.
I just reworked some of the problem with the book in front of me and I still think I messed up at least half of it, but my memory of what the problem numbers were and what my answers were is fading fast so I'm not sure. I guess I'll find out next week.
Fortunately, he drops the lowest exam score so I'll be OK as long as I do better on the remaining exams.
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Gambling on your grades? I think Neal and I just found some +EV academic motivation
"Ultrinsic is a web-based platform for college students to wager on
their grades. Ultrinsic offers a selection of wagers that are
customized according to each student's current schedule and academic
history." Via Marginal Revolution:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/10/markets-in-everything.html I wonder how they calculate their lines and how heavily they weight
recent performance vs. overall cumulative GPA? I've been getting very
good grades in graduate school, but my undergraduate GPA was poor
(2.9).
Update: Only available to undergraduates at NYU and U of Pennsylvania. Poop.
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Neal and I are doing the late night-before-the-exam cram for Cost Accounting together
Our study styles are pretty dissimilar, though. He's still trying to
actually learn stuff, whereas 2+ years at UNLV have broken my spirit
and now I just jump through hoops to get grades, which requires
significantly less effort.
strategies. :) In my experience, I can always (re)learn whatever I
need on the job later, when I actually need it, as long as I know that
the topic exists to be learned.
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Pleased with my ability to predict my exam score, if not with the score itself
I predicted that I would get a "B or low A, depending on how lucky I
get" on my Supply Chain Management midterm. Apparently I got average
variance because I scored 90.5%, pretty much right on the line between
those two grades. :)
test. I was right around 67th percentile for the class. I expect
better from myself -- I guess I need to actually read the book before
the final.
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