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Do you feel anything when someone finishes an exam before you?

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I always assume they did well if they finish early. I've finished several tests early in my easier classes in high school and college, and I did well on all of them. So I'm not sure how much basis the "they finished early which means they failed" mentality has. Maybe they just knew the material and blasted through it.
 
I usually finish exams first. This semester however I was the last person in an exam taken by maybe 50 people. It was awkward as fuck with the teachers' "I want to go" face. I failed the test.
 
If someone finished way earlier than everyone else, I generally assumed they rushed through or didn't answer a bunch of stuff due to lack of studying. Unless I knew it was someone who consistently got good grades.
 
Who gives a shit, I just want my A.

Honestly at times when I finish really fast and I'm the first, I keep sitting and checking my answers until a few people go up first. People make a big deal about getting up first, honestly they do, and I don't want the useless recognition.
 
I was in an exam for a programming course in college a few years back. I was taking too many classes that quarter and my grades were suffering because of how much time I spent trying to do this classes work (and I still got bad grades in it), so I had stopped doing any work for the class about halfway through the quarter and changed my grade to Pass/Fail so that it wouldn't effect my GPA (too late in the quarter to drop the class, and my college you pay for a credits in a range, so dropping it wouldn't have saved me money anyways).

Come the final exam, I go in and just start doing the few questions I know the answers to and ignoring most of the heavier programming parts. Even with me not doing half of the exam, one guy finished his exam about 15 minutes before I did!

I couldn't help but laugh about it later.
 
EatinOlives said:
Lol, try being the last person in your entire class to finish.
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I was always the last in high school when we had math finals. All teachers would come to my classroom and start talking and waiting for me to finish because they were going to have lunch together, but I was ruining their plans (I was on time, the test was 4 hours, I used every fucking minute I had to be completely sure of my answers).

I always thought: "Why everyone knows everything and I'm slow and stupid? :( "
 
I would always check my work as many times I could within my allotted time. I admit to judging students who tore through their exam and ran out the door before I was halfway finished. Can't imagine many of them got decent grades that way, unless they were just really academically gifted.
 
You people who are staying to the bitter end are going to be very disappointed when you get out of school and nobody ever looks at your grades again*

*In most cases
 
Finishing an hour early & leaving -> noone else can go to the toilet for the rest of the exam

kinda evil, didnt really think about it at that time
 
Before college I cared if lots of people finished before me because I usually finished early.

In college I would generally take the full time and double/ triple check my work if possible, at least on tests that weren't just memorization based. I didn't really care when other people finished unless I felt unprepared and was struggling with it because I was usually one of the last ones out anyways.
 
Nope, sometimes I'm that person. I recently left a 4 hour Crim. Procedure exam 2 hours in. Spent half an hour checking my work too.

It's just the way things are.
 
I usually finish quickly. Out of 200 people in my med school class, I was within the first 4-5 to finish. I usually got mid B's on my stuff so I was happy. Never bothered me to be the first one out, and only bothered me when I was last one there because I knew that time was likely running slim.

People would FREAK OUT though when they saw me and the other first few leave. One girl during our first anatomy exam started crying when she saw me leave as I was the first one. Told the professor she lost hope because she was only like 1/4 through the exam. We had people stand up in front of the class during exam review and demand we sit in our seats until at least two hours had passed (exams were typically three hours, I finished ~45 mins in). That was overwhelmingly denied. You'd be amazed at how much of a blow to their ego it was that someone finished their exam before them. Funny thing is that a lot of them scored higher than me anyway so they had no real reason to be upset!

Only exams I didn't do this with were board exams. I don't care what they say, they make questions meant to trick you. I am very slow and methodical about those exams and usually am there for every second possible.
 
EatinOlives said:
Lol, try being the last person in your entire class to finish.
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I did this on my Modern Latin America exam. I figured I had aced the multiple choice (which I did), but I was really unprepared for the essay portion since I had focused on preparing for different topics than the ones she gave. It was a pick 2 out of 3 deal, and I started doing the second one, and I accidentally started answering the first one, and then I kind of answered the third one too. Ended up stressing about how I was now writing one big essay answering all 3 rather than 2 smaller ones, started getting weirdly specific with some things when I knew I didn't need that information at all, and was the very last person done, having taken up the entire two hours. I got an 88, so it ended up okay, but man that just felt so bad.

Similarly, I was almost one of the last people to finish one of my math exams. The first person finished while I was just under halfway done, it was ridiculous. I ended up taking the full 2 hours, but getting all questions and the bonuses right, probably because I was so meticulous throughout the whole thing, but man, how did those people do that so fast. -_-
 
Simon Belmont said:
That is one crazy outdated rule. You could just go to the bathroom with your phone in your pocket before anyone leaves if you're that hell bent on cheating.
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I suppose that is true.
A professor once told a story that someone had his friends set on standby, he would send them the questions per phone, collecting the results later on. hue
 
It depends.

If I'm close to the end and someone else gets up I get annoyed because I wanted to be first, dammit.

Otherwise depends on the circumstances. The only time this year i was legit first to finish I got a 95 on that exam while nearly everybody else got grades in the 40s.
 
Nope. Not at all.
Nothing.

Not that I do exams anymore, but when I did, whatever the others did was their achievement to earn and their losses to lose. Has nothing to do with me. Not that when you are trying to solve math problems, you have any chance at observing your environment, cause that is not exactly a perk for problem solving :P
 
I'm usually finished with exams quite fast because I almost always know what I'm doing. Even on my immunology final a couple years ago once I made it through, checked everything, and then sat staring for 10 minutes at two questions I had no idea how to answer, I was still like the 2nd or 3rd done.

That class was rough though, I remember thinking after each exam "damn I knew almost everything and rushed through without stopping, and there's only like 5 minutes left...what happens to the rest of class?" There was only ever 5-10 of us who made it out before the period was over out of like 120 people.

I finished the first exam for a class once in like 15 minutes and turned it in. Professor goes "wow that was fast," and all I could say was "uhh yeah... but I knew everything."
 
Well I finish exams pretty fast so I'll wait until someone stands up and hands their test in before I do it. I feel weird being the first one.

If I don't finish early and someone else finishes before I do, I'll think, "Lil bitch, you get to go home now while I'm stuck with this shit." And then get back to doing my test.
 
I was usually among the first to finish exams, but it's because I wanted it to be over as soon as possible, and I wanted time to doodle.
 
Don't leave the exam room first unless you stand up and then drop the pencil before walking out. For good measure, taunt the other exam-takers on the way out, MJ style.
 
I laughed Tuesday at my math final. Took everyone all of two hours except one guy who I knew had trouble all semester. He left about a minute in. In my head I imagine he simply drew a dickbutt on his test and bounced.
 
I generally don't really care when people finish.

Someone finished their stats exam in like 30 minutes when I did it last week. I couldnt stop laughing, it was hillarious

Almost everyone took 2 and a half to full three hours to complete the exam.

I also hate second guessing myself
 
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