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College Crew: Ever have a class where the average is an F.

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StatsManD

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Well one of my advanced math classes are like that now. Prof gives ridiculously long and difficult homework assignments. Average on the homework is like 40 out 100. The high on the homework has never been over a C-.
 
Originally posted by: StatsManD
Well one of my advanced math classes are like that now. Prof gives ridiculously long and difficult homework assignments. Average on the homework is like 40 out 100. The high on the homework has never been over a C-.
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What is it after the curve?
 
I had a digital circuits class that was pretty similar. The homework wasn't too difficult, but the exams were horrible.
 
Originally posted by: StatsManD
He even tells us, he doesn't expect anyone in the class to know how to do most of the problemss.
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then he should get an "F" for teaching ability

I had classes like that too....you'd look at the test and think it was for a different class than the one you were taking 🙂
 
it happened to my senior batch in undergrad. apparently, all the students decided to miss (cut) the class one day (understanding among all students), the prof. came to the class saw that nobody was there and went back. he was furious. he made the final very difficult and apparently many students failed.

his point was that if the students wanted to cut the class, then they should have informed him so that he wouldn't have wasted time in coming to the class.

after an apology, he fixed the grades. 🙂.
 
Well, in a calculus class I was in once, I was the third highest with a 70 (he wrote the grades on the board, no names next to them of course), 2/3 of the class failed, the guy above me had a 76, everyone else was in the 60s. Someone had a 7, another had a 10.
 
The funny thing is, we don't even have test in this class. All of our grade is based on HW and a take home Final. A take home final that based on people I ask, no one knows how to do more than half the problems.
 
My second semester of programming at my college had a 99% drop rate, but those who stayed tended to pass. My class ended up with 3 students at the end of it (we moved from a lecture hall to a normal sized class room after the drop by date).
 
Originally posted by: StatsManD
He even tells us, he doesn't expect anyone in the class to know how to do most of the problemss.
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They why the #&*%@! is he wasting his and everyone else's time?
 
I've had a class where the final average was ~50. Does that count?

In fact, I got a 21% on one of our midterm exams. Luckily, the average for that exam was a 17%.

I am a structural engineer, btw.
 
Yeah your class is just filled with people who aren't committed. I had this one history class(60ish people if I remember correctly) in which I had an A and the next highest grade was a 73. I was quite proud but eventually he just curved everyone's grade by 25 points...
 
I had a calc teacher that would finish about half the explanation and then write "I.O." under it on the board. Finally someone asked why he never finished the explanation and what IO meant. He said at that point the problem was "Intuitively obvious". I found out the hard way that IO was not a correct test answer though.
 
I've had calc, and intro cs classes where the averages were in the 50's before the curve. Nothing unusual. Not to mention that many times almost half the students drop the class after the midterm due to difficulty. 🙂
 
It looks like you are missing the concept of an "average" score, but in any school I've ever heard of, the letter C stands for average.

that means, if the average on a test is 30/100 ... then a 30 is a C. The rest of the grades will be dependent upon that.

It looks like your teachers don't understand the concept of "average" or your school is just whack.

In my weed out computer science class, the average on the final was a 29/100. I got a 40/100 and got a B on it.
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
It looks like you are missing the concept of an "average" score, but in any school I've ever heard of, the letter C stands for average.

that means, if the average on a test is 30/100 ... then a 30 is a C. The rest of the grades will be dependent upon that.

It looks like your teachers don't understand the concept of "average" or your school is just whack.

In my weed out computer science class, the average on the final was a 29/100. I got a 40/100 and got a B on it.
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They had to change the rules on passing in my CS weed out class because of me. It used to be that you had to have an average of 80% on the tests in order to pass. The year after I took it they changed it to also include getting a 60% or above on all other assignments as well. (I got a 98% average on the tests and a 50% on all other work and got a B in the class).

Well I guess if I was taking it now I would have to spend the 20 hours + a week (outside of class) they suggested on completing the programming assignments. The teacher actually told us that if we had a job we should probably quit.
 
I did have a class where only 4 people passed (without a curve). I got an A (without the curve). If you decide that failing is acceptable because the professor will curve you to a B or C, then you deserve to fail. If you work your ass off to pass despite the difficulty, then you deserve to pass. "It's too hard" is a high school excuse. If you're not understanding the material, do what it takes to rectify that situation. Get a tutor. Talk to him during office hours. Doing as well as everyone else in the class is fine and all, but if you're failing tests and homework assignments that cover the class material, then you're not understanding the class material.
 
It was a math course with a 5-test average in the mid 20s. The highest score in the class was was 40. The professor said he would add 20 points to everyone's average, which meant only one person made a D, while the rest failed. We were left with no choice but to file a complaint, and the department asked the professor to STFU and make a decent curve.

 
In my calc II class, about 2/3s fail the exams. and considering the exams were 100% of the grade, I'd figure that the class average was an F.
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
I used to ruin the curve in Discrete Math. People hated me. 😛
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I did the same thing in my Chemistry classes. The professor told me one time that I didn't have to take a test because I demonstrated knowledge of the principles that it tested on my last test, since I did the problems the hard way.

I got some bad stares for that one.

OP, what's the title of the class?
 
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