<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Chaos at the Sky]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[chaotic_iak]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com/author/chaoticiak/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Math camp indeed brings mental&nbsp;pressure]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>As in, I got home this Sunday. Because of some weird event that made me stayed up until 4.30 AM, I didn&#8217;t go to school on Monday. And guess what when I came back to school yesterday.</p>
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<p><strong>1. Math Midterm Test</strong><br />
Ten problems about polynomials (Factor Theorem, Remainder Theorem, Vieta&#8217;s Formulas, I can&#8217;t write the accent) and limits (indeterminate forms as in 0/0, infty/infty, and infty-infty, and also L&#8217;Hopital&#8217;s Rule). So I&#8217;m pretty sure I got nine correct, except for&#8230;<br />
<strong>Problem 9</strong><br />
<em>Determine the limit of (sin x &#8211; tan x)/(x^3) as x approaches 0.</em><br />
The answer is -1/2. I, being under strict time pressure or something, just went with &#8220;sin x / x approaches 1 and tan x / x approaches 1, so distributive property gives an answer of 0&#8221;. After the test, I soon realized that it can be solved with at least three ways and that my approach is invalid. A particularly-laborious-yet-working solution is to use L&#8217;Hopital&#8217;s Rule three times, yielding (- cos x &#8211; 4 sec^2 x tan^2 x &#8211; 2 sec^4 x) / 6, and solves easily by substitution for x=0.<br />
So, in math tests, go bruteforce.</p>
<p><strong>2. Chemistry &#8220;Pre-test&#8221;, open book</strong><br />
Yay open book. Oh ya this and the next test is today, on Wednesday. I caught up by learning in the first 40 minutes of the class (Chemistry class on Wednesdays in total has 2 hours, broken into three classes for unknown reasons), and went on for the test. Okay, so I completed it in time (1h 20m), which means the time is so severely limited that others won&#8217;t make it. And yeah, everyone else didn&#8217;t finish by a pretty large number of problems (I heard at least 7 out of 50 or something; and note that this is problems not worked on, not including worked-on-but-wrong problems). And yet I got only three wrong, for a 94 mark. What. Killer teacher.<br />
Aftermath: After a 1 vs 8 argument, the teacher agreed to allow the students to <em>continue</em> the test later, in the next Chemistry class. What. The. [insert word here]</p>
<p><strong>3. Sundanese Test</strong><br />
In case you&#8217;re wondering, Sundanese is a language born in West Java. You know Indonesia has a very rich culture, and this is one of them.<br />
Nothing exceptional here. Oh, the test is taken from a two-page note, which basically everyone in class underestimated and started to learn only at school. Me included for obvious reasons; if you can&#8217;t see why it&#8217;s obvious, let&#8217;s say my math camp doesn&#8217;t have Sundanese as a class.</p>
<p>Well, yeah. And I also need to catch up with all those tasks and tests in the one-month period of camp.</p>
<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> or for some reason you just want other thing: Try Rondo Alla Turca by Ryu* in osu!. The asterisk should be a white star. That song, the Challenging mode especially, made my hands tired. I can&#8217;t just survive to the first kiai time; the scarcity of Hit Circles made my already-lower-than-a-third HP bar to drain completely before any kind of HP restoring area 😦 Quest of completing that beatmap begins again some time later.</p>
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