As an electronic engineering student, our exams were negatively marked. If you got an answer wrong you incurred (-0.25 * $availablePoints). If you didn't answer the question you scored 0. We despised this at the time..
Now a medical student, we don't have negative marking. I feel it's actually very important in this discipline to know your limitations and not pass-off as though you know more than you do. I have however encountered resistance to this, having professors question my very reasons for doing medicine due to leaving questions unanswered..!
Do not worry. We know the ocean of knowledge they throw/threw us in with full expectation of us drinking in all that new material while being surrounded with sharks and there is a heavy storm that keeps a person from taking a breath.
Still Medical school kicks ass and life after it is colorless. Also, why are you complaining? With 4 Subjects tested every week year 2, 40 genes implicated in ovarian cancer and their frequencies are over the top. The only time I was disappointed was when a concept slipped because of the lack of waling minutes to master. Concepts are more important now as I see it in an age when any symptom or fact that slips can be double checked.
Best years of my life!
Now a medical student, we don't have negative marking. I feel it's actually very important in this discipline to know your limitations and not pass-off as though you know more than you do. I have however encountered resistance to this, having professors question my very reasons for doing medicine due to leaving questions unanswered..!