>>10908149Aside from
>try hard>study lots, etc.Exams: in any large course with 100+ people, unless your prof is a literal autist and decides to mark them all alone, there's 6-7 GAs helping, and of those 6-7, 1-2 deserve to be kicked out of grad school and a third is probably mostly asleep while marking. Whenever possible, meet with your prof after to go over your exam. Do not act aggressive or ask how you can get more marks, go with the angle of "I want to know what I did wrong", and you'll run into all these marking errors and shit, it's disgusting.
When I was an undergrad I was kind of immature and stubborn and I used to go around saying
>only bitches who whine for marks go to see examsMight be true of some people, but it doesn't have to be. When I started grad school and went to mark my first exam (it's part of our contract, I assume most universities do something similar with graduate assistantships), I was shocked that the prof just tossed a few copies of the marking scheme on the table and we passed them around and picked questions. There was minimal instruction (ex. for question x if they put this, this, or this, those variations are also acceptable), but most of it was left to our own judgement, and I quickly realized that some of my co-GAs were either to lazy to try hard, too burned out from research to try hard, or couldn't remember anything from their intro undergrad courses and were just totally winging it.
It gets better when you get to upper year courses though because the class size gets small enough that it's either just the prof or 1-3 GAs marking and you're less likely to have some dumbfuck not bother to read your entire answer.
Now I wish more than anything that I had gone to see all my exams. I did mostly well in undergrad but a few times I did unexpectedly very poorly and at the time blamed myself, but after seeing some of the shitty behaviour of my colleagues I would bet someone cheated me out of some significant marks at least once.
