Re: Question for the Professor

On Dec 19 2008 10:03 PM, mccard wrote:

You have a college student one of the sciences. Second year elective class.
Guy struggles the whole way through and by the final needs 94% to make a C.
He attends your special tutoring session and seems like he's finally getting
it. Final comes and he gets 89% on the final. What grade does he get and
why?

Assuming the final was comprehensive and a fair representation of what the
course covered, I would give him whatever a 89% represents, which is most
likely a B. This is college right, not high school?

In my intro to differential equations course my professor had 4 tests and
an exam as the final grade. He would average, or if the comprehensive
final was better than the average, he would give you that grade.

I bombed each of the tests in spectacular fashion, not studying, not doing
homework, etc. The weekend before the final, I managed to stop drinking
long enough to cuddle up with a good, solid, DE book (not the text book),
and learned what I needed to know in about a cumulative of 16 hours of
work over the week. We were allowed to bring an note card to the exam, I
declined.

I was the only one who opted to take the exam, as everyone else was happy
with their score. There were 10 questions. I knew all of them but one,
which I could only half-complete (and got half credit). I couldn't
complete an integral that required a double u-substitution (tricky, kind
of, but not material covered in a DE class) and I couldn't remember the
half-life of Uranium ("you should have put it on your note card", and not
DE related). I should have got a 95% but ended up with an 85%. I took my B
doing the minimal work required.

I used to know DE and PDE like the back of my hand, even taking some
graduate level classes in it as an undergrad. Now I can't even remember
which way the contraction goes in a Lipschitz inequality, but hey you use
it to prove existence or uniqueness or something.

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