[dotnet00]

I had the same experience but with a final exam that was way too long and covered all of the types of diff. equations given to us throughout the semester (expected to just memorize everything). Result was that the average score was ~29%, only reason anyone passed the class was that it had a curve. By far the worst university level math class I had, it has been much easier to learn to solve them depending on need with physics.

The required memorization made things especially difficult for me because I tend to work off intuition rather than memorization. I also usually can't name theorems despite knowing them from practice (this also used to be a huge pain for exams where solutions were unreasonably only considered correct if you named everything used).