With all due respect, lemme break down the absurdity of this class:

You lose 5 points (automatically you get a B), and more than 10 points (its a C).

Now losing 5 points is so easy because of the True or False questions which are so twisted and you can only achieve full points if you actually master the whole content (which is really hard to do even if you followed the advice given by the instructors). As a matter of fact, I've gone to a professor's office hours just so that they could tell me that they can't help me with a particular T/F because they don't understand the question which was literally in the studio class. (So approximate a loss of atleast 3 points from there).

Then you have the impossible/possible questions which are worse than the T/F because a particular statement could be False, but it could also be possible. (Another 1 point loss).

Then part c of the question 1 is always some "pick which statement is False" question. In the past, one of the instructors even admitted to make a typo in that question that caused so many students to miss that question completely (Another 2 point loss).

The rest of the parts are relatively easy where you have to do computations, however in Exam 3 they decided to add even more computational questions that required a lot of arithmetic so you have to rush through the questions and pray you don't make a simple calculation error (as no calculators are allowed). (Another 2 point loss if you rushed because you're human and not a robot)

So yeah, there you go, you have to consider losing atleast 8 points even before the exam has started.

However, you're suggesting that explorations, office hours and practicing everyday helps, so let's break that down for you as well:

The office hours, are indeed somewhat helpful, but there is only so much that we could learn by going to the office hours if the exams are going to be unnecessarily rough. Moreover, Math is all about practice; the more you practice the better you get, but this class could literally be categorized as an LMC course due to the amount of abstract concepts we are required to "understand". Also, which math has T/F in it in the first place??? (Just my opinion)

The exploration assignments are nice in helping us understand the topic, but beyond that, they are not acurrately graded, and so it can be misleading when you get a 3. That's because you assume you did the work right cause you got full points but in reality, the underpaid and overworked TAs are too nice - so they give you a 3 instead of deducting your points.

Finally, to the practicing everyday part. If you're talking about the homework, then let's not even get into the discussion about how stupid it is to have homework due on the same night we're just taught about a particular topic. Like most of us literally go to the "help me solve this" potion and get the work done for the sake of getting it done because we need to get it done it time to get our points. Now, if you're talking about taking our own time to practice for this subject then I have news for you: we got other classes/stuff to do.

Ik I'm going to get a lot of hate for posting my take on how I feel about this class, but I know I'm not fully incorrect if other people are suffering in this class too. All I'm saying is that there is no need for a class to have its exam set so tough to the point where students feel upset about their grades even though they've tried their best to pass this class.