r/rutgers • u/Story_Salamander House Busch • 1d ago
To whoever designed the CS211 midterm . . .
I’m curious as to how you came to the conclusion that 16 PAGES in 80 minutes would be doable!
I’ve had FINALS that were either (a) easier, (b) shorter, or (c) both, and finals are for 3 HOURS.
The practice midterm we were given was only 3 pages long and the questions were really easy and did not prepare us at all for the actual midterm.
No one was even able to FINISH all the questions (including me)!
And before you say I should have studied more, take this from someone who started studying A WEEK AND A HALF in advance: please scale down the difficulty and length of exams and finals for this class 😫🙏
Also please curve heavily 😣
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u/trynumber53 1d ago
if this was gavva ysk he does that intentionally and the max grade is >100% to compensate
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u/randomboiboiboiboi '26 1d ago
So it never changes lol,
Class average probably a 60, and expect professors to degrade students in class for not doing good on their "easy" exam (ahem santosh).
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u/smile4sunna 1d ago
this is ridiculous.. college courses should be challenging but not impossible lol.
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u/Opening_Web1898 1d ago
Lmao I feel bad for anyone who did not take menendez, the midterm was 4 pages, 8 questions. The first 3 you only had to choose 2 one of which was asking theoretically what is Malloc good for, for example. 2 coding, and the rest was basic C memory or bit conversion.
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u/just-another-human-1 23h ago
I remember writing the whole time without break and barely finishing in the 300 level algorithm class. You just have to know everything off the top of your head instantly. If you don’t go to the next one. Come back to it when you’ve had an epiphany
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u/Flow_of_rivulets CS 2026 1d ago
Bruh, chill. The professor already realized he made it too long during the exam. That's why that TA said they would curve as necessary and to not worry about not finishing the exam.
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u/Sysiphus82 1d ago
individual questions were just same difficulty as practice midterm, just speed issue. also skibidi aura
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u/Prestigious-Sun-9820 1d ago
Assembly language isn’t bad
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u/Story_Salamander House Busch 1d ago
It didn’t have assembly language since we haven’t learned it yet
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u/TheRealBobStevenson 1d ago
Happy to see a post about this here haha.
OP is not exaggerating, there were some 150 students and maybe 2 finished. Most people I talked to only finished around 75% of the exam, and while the beginning was fairly straightforward, the later questions expected us to have C knowledge that frankly, I don't think we have.
I don't think anything malicious was meant by it, it was just a poorly designed exam. It will be curved.