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by jltsiren
38 days ago
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Mathematics is notorious for exams like that. But if you look at the reasons why people fail to get a perfect grade at undergraduate level, it's almost always due to honest mistakes or because they didn't learn what they were supposed to learn. In my experience, studying mathematics is a bit weird. If you are ready to learn a topic, it's probably the field where you can get top grades with the least effort. But if you can't learn something with reasonable effort, hard work is unlikely to help. Doing something else and trying again after a few months might help. |
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Depends on your school. At my school, someone who was not super-talented in math but who works hard and is actually smart about studying is a 70s-80s student. The students who got 100s were basically IMO-level elite mathematics kids who were heavily recruited by the school and given full ride scholarships.
The course exams were essentially designed so that a "meets expectations" was a final grade of 65%. A grade of 100% is someone they were looking to recruit into research internships, grad school, and potentially a tenure-track position.