ew..i thought that was funny...
geez..way to have a sense of humor. hope you fail that class like a mofo.
j/k
I'll feed you sushi if it will fatten you up!
(people are just jealous you are a girl and don't talk to them, that's all)
Yea if it's the whole class you have a good point I wasn't thinking of. But grading on a curve is a poor solution for a bad professor, but with all the bureacracy it probably happens a lot.
DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Wow, sounds like my organic chem...
More than 1/2 of the class actually DID fail, and that was with passing set at 50% More than half of the class didn't make it to the final, it was pointless. I barely survived (as did the rest of the class... I don't recall there being any A's).
But I still remember sooooo much "useful" organic chem.... how to make various drugs... C-4.... TNT....
Actually, the kid across from me in lab had TNT as a byproduct of nitration of an unknown toluene.... he should've been paying closer attention while distilling... BAMMMM!
More than 1/2 of the class actually DID fail, and that was with passing set at 50% More than half of the class didn't make it to the final, it was pointless. I barely survived (as did the rest of the class... I don't recall there being any A's).
But I still remember sooooo much "useful" organic chem.... how to make various drugs... C-4.... TNT....
Actually, the kid across from me in lab had TNT as a byproduct of nitration of an unknown toluene.... he should've been paying closer attention while distilling... BAMMMM!
Cerb
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Bad curve:
It doesn't matter your grade, you get forced into fitting a bell curve. if everyone does well, then obviously it wasn't hard enough. Evil curve.
Good curve:
Either everyone does poorly enough that the grade scale needs to increase, or there is a significant difference between classes (like afternoon classes doing worse than morning classes), or both. In this case, the grades are expanded to fit a curve in which the current highest 10% (assuming that's an A in the class) have scores from 91% to 100%.
It doesn't matter your grade, you get forced into fitting a bell curve. if everyone does well, then obviously it wasn't hard enough. Evil curve.
Good curve:
Either everyone does poorly enough that the grade scale needs to increase, or there is a significant difference between classes (like afternoon classes doing worse than morning classes), or both. In this case, the grades are expanded to fit a curve in which the current highest 10% (assuming that's an A in the class) have scores from 91% to 100%.
i hate profs who say they won't curve just to scare people into dropping, and then curve at the end anyway...
i have a few W's on my transcript thanks to that bullsh!t (dropped the class, then found out people way dumber than me got C's and stuff..argh..)
i have a few W's on my transcript thanks to that bullsh!t (dropped the class, then found out people way dumber than me got C's and stuff..argh..)
scoring on a curve is not good.
all it does is rank you against the other dumbasses in your class.
not on what you have learned.
you got a 37% you failed
shows me that you didn't study well or the right material.
all it does is rank you against the other dumbasses in your class.
not on what you have learned.
you got a 37% you failed
shows me that you didn't study well or the right material.
I got screwed because of a curve in my legal accounting class. Only missed one problem (a T/F) on the test; all my other answers were correct but he took off points for bullsh!te reasons like not explaining my answers (even though he never instructed us to do so). I ended up with a C+
My HS Chemistry teacher was dead set against curving until about a week before the end of the semester when 30/32 students were failing and the other two had low D's (And were quite upset, since they're those goody-goody straight-A chicks, you know the type)
Yeah, he curved stuff pretty freaking quick.
And then the final was a TOTAL joke.
Yeah, he curved stuff pretty freaking quick.
And then the final was a TOTAL joke.
MartyMcFly3
Lifer
Sweet! I got a 38% on my BIO test so i got a C......
After looking back at what i typed, ive discovered thats really sad
After looking back at what i typed, ive discovered thats really sad
I know when I took my science classes (wildlife biology major) some professors actually enjoyed seeing a failing average. I've taken tons of classes where the average was below 50%. Only had one curved in my 4 years and that was because the average was 36%.
First year general chemistry was a "weeder course". 44% of the people who took it failed it, out of 3000+ students that was alot of people.
First year general chemistry was a "weeder course". 44% of the people who took it failed it, out of 3000+ students that was alot of people.
if you have a weekly test, there will be lots of time to improve your grade. generally though, i think that a low class average is a sign of either poor teaching, or a test that isn't calibrated for the level of material that the students should know.
thebestMAX
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MartyMcFly3
Lifer
I don't believe in curves.
It simply means the professor gets to decide your fate based on some school standard (so that not everyone gets A thus implying the school is too easy).
It's all Cow Crap!
It simply means the professor gets to decide your fate based on some school standard (so that not everyone gets A thus implying the school is too easy).
It's all Cow Crap!
The man was boring as fvck and put us all to sleep since it was right after lunch. And he kept screwing up and the handouts and such. And he assigned a ton of problems every night that nobody ever did. And the labs were eliminated after "we" broke too many pieces of glassware when the construction workers outside decided to use a giant hydraulic ram to chip away a layer of rock.
He also taught Chemistry to most of our parents - and actually said to me "You're as bad at this as your father was"
Yeah, that class blew the goat
One prof in my uni gave negative grades as well. It was in discrete math: when you took a test with multiple choice questions in it, you were better off leaving the question blank than answering smth if you were unsure. Penalty for an incorrect answer was more than a penalty for a blank one.
He was notorious in other tests as well, and it was quite common in his class that people had negative scores.
And he didn't curve.
So, by the mid semester half of the class tried to drop out with the permission of the dean. The wise ones never took discrete math when he was teaching.
He was notorious in other tests as well, and it was quite common in his class that people had negative scores.
And he didn't curve.
So, by the mid semester half of the class tried to drop out with the permission of the dean. The wise ones never took discrete math when he was teaching.
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