Re: Semester
- From: "Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:18:46 GMT
"Reef Fish" <Large_Nassau_Grouper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Did anyone have a grade point LESS than 4.0?
>
> This is a serious comment, not to mean that it applies to Dillon.
> In today's grade-inflation and make-everyone-feel-good
> environment, every student expects to get an A in every course.
> Whether they should have passed or flunked is beside the point.
Might be *these days*, but it sure as 'ell wasn't like that back when I was
working on my degrees... I have to admit though, I was happier getting a 'D'
in Statistics than I had ever been when I had a 4.0 over 4 or 5 CS courses
in other semesters... The 'D' was passing and I could therefore
*graduate*... I had dropped that damn course at least 2 or 3 times by that
point... I suspect that the professor took pity on my and 'gave' me the 'D'
just so he wouldn't have to see me there again... <grin>
> I graded the students on their comprehension of the
> course material taught. 75% was a guaranteed A
> and 40% a passing D.
It wasn't that way when I was in school... Basically a standard 10 pt
grading scale -- 90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, 59 and below = F...
Now, there was one Physics professor who would fit the class scores to a
bell curve for your final grade... It kind of sucked coming to the last day
that you could drop the course, having a 40 average, and it being in the
upper 10% of all the students... You didn't know if you should drop the
course or take your chances with him mapping the grades to the bell curve...
> May be the Dean had a few words with those professors
> who had put you in the unthinkable state of an "academic
> probation". The professors learned to work around
> whatever crap you had produced and put you in your
> "comfort zone", by assigning the automatic "A"!
Nawh, I never had a problem with CS course, it was just the Statistics that
got me... The professor who usually taught that course taught it at a
significantly more advanced level than the other professors who infrequently
taught it... When the other professors taught it, there was a significantly
higher enrollment in the course... For some reason, I had a lot more
difficulty grasping Statistics than I did Calculus... I'm not saying that
Calculus was *easy*, but at least I could manage a 'B' in it without having
to consider dropping the course... As it has turned out, I've used neither
Calculus nor Statistics for any of the systems that I've designed over the
years... I think that perhaps they were just in the curriculum to weed out
the students who should have been MIS instead of CS majors...
.
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