For extra credit on an exam, would you rather...

[boomhower]

Unless the concert interests you for either content or cause write the paper. One page should take 30 minutes tops.

 

[DrPizza]

If it was a good concert, then of course I'd go to the concert. But if you have to be coerced into going through the offer of extra credit... 1 page paper?! That's it? That's 15 minutes. I'd rather write a 10 page paper with 2 dozen sources than go to a lame 5 hour concert.

 

[Engineer]

All extra credit should be eliminated and against the rules. In real life, your boss isn't going to come up to you and say " You just failed and lost the million dollar project but if you do this small project over here, you'll get a passing grade on the original project".

 

[DrPizza]

All extra credit should be eliminated and against the rules. In real life, your boss isn't going to come up to you and say " You just failed and lost the million dollar project but if you do this small project over here, you'll get a passing grade on the original project".

Are you saying that working all sorts of overtime, taking on extra projects, etc., isn't going to help you get a bonus or possible promotion?

 

[Pantlegz]

A few of my professors have offered extra credit to show up to whatever. They always have you check in then it's up to you if you stay or not. My history professor basically encouraged people to show up so it would look like they care and he might give them a better grade. That class was bullshit anyway, 60% of the grade was how much he felt you picked up. The final was worth 10-20% of the final grade and would be weighed on an individual basis, according to the syllabus. The final 20-30% was based on 2 papers that nobody got better than a C.

 

[Engineer]

Are you saying that working all sorts of overtime, taking on extra projects, etc., isn't going to help you get a bonus or possible promotion?

Didn't say that...said if you failed on projects, most likely adding in extra isn't going to help much and you will be fired. I'm not talking about people who fail one test and are 0.5% away from an A for the entire year, I'm talking about people who are 0.5% away from passing at all. If I failed on that many of my projects, "extra credit" isn't going to help those projects.

I guess in school extra credit might help the child learn something that would otherwise not be learned but in real life, extra credit in the case of many failures would not work well. Again, if it was one failure in many projects (i.e. a B+), sure, extra credit (taking on an extra project, especially on your own time) might help.

I can definitely say that if you fail a customer (at least in my business), you generally don't get a 2nd project no matter how much extra you do to make the 1st one right. If it's a long time customer, maybe but generally, no (I've seen this first hand on 2 projects in the last year - not my screw up so I didn't get dinged (Son of the owner so I don't think he got dinged either)).

 

[KeithTalent]

I picked lol.

KT

 

[the DRIZZLE]

If the class is graded on a curve then extra credit is BS.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Write a one page essay on something sciencey