16B Midterm Post-Mortem
Exam-wise, I don’t think I was prepared enough for recognizing common patterns (and not having to redo easy work). That definitely ate up a good chunk of time. I also wasn’t timing myself the best - I wasn’t really used to remote test-taking, and a big part of that is keeping yourself on track without the luxury of having the testing atmosphere around you to remind you of when you should be moving on.
I didn’t know that I should have the Jupyter notebook pulled up, and what Python libraries to use for doing things like solving eigenvalues. That exposed my lack of intuition with basic linear algebra stuff, like what to do when you have a row of zeroes (it doesn’t mean that the matrix can’t be diagonalizable! It just means that that specific eigenvector is going to look something like [0, 0, 1]). Otherwise, I don’t think I did terribly, but I definitely could have done significantly better (spent more time/practice with trickier problems, so I wasn’t looking at circuit diagrams and being momentarily at a loss for what to do.)
Created from: Daily review 07-17-20 202007172335
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