The Test: Trig

This is it -judgment day. Time to see if being in class actually helps when taking a test. I did get a practice test from a classmate yesterday, and spent two and a half hours going over it and referring to the book. Going into this morning's class I felt like I would do well, though I had to run back to the dorm to pick up my calculator. Oops.

I sat down, looked at the test in front of me, and saw that the problems before me were far more complex that what I had done last night. Most of the test was drawing translated sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant graphs. The problems last night had two digit changes to the equation, while today's had four and five.

I slowly - very slowly - worked through the graphs until the teacher said we should be halfway finished. I had barely worked the first page, so I skipped the rest of the graphs and tore through the quicker stuff. I came back to the graphs with about twenty minutes left. I had the last problem mostly complete when we were told to stop.

I did take everything slowly and checked my work, so except for that last graph, I think I did well. I'm just going to have to wait till Thursday to see what the actual judgment is. As the saying goes: the writing is the hardest part.