Does this sound fair to you?

[WOT]

well, regardless if it's YOU... someone is getting screwed here. 20 F's. i mean, what if they are all at least b grade? thats a ****ed up way to grade something. why does SOMEONE have to fail?

Perfect way to say it

 

[AVSTANG02]

College / University is just to prepare you for life in the real world..

Life in the real world is not fair. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

cheat

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

wow that sounds like BS,

 

[moh.vze.com 10+ year member]

Honor system eh?

Well, just do your best without cheating. Don't worry so much about the grade because once you go to higher level classes like strengthen and materials, you'll have a stronger knowledge on that stuff.

Man, life is always gonna be unfair and we just have to move on. I remember when I transferred to a university and there were always a big chunk of the class that cheated/worked together in their own ways. For example, in my assembly programming class, there would be about 40% of students who have good networking and find old exams to study.

Blah. I think bottom line is if you just go through school being honest and you will gain more in the end. My younger bro has been in a lot of situations that you've been in but he doesn't cheat and still able to get valedictorian in high school and still maintain a 4.0 until this day in college.

 

[moh.vze.com 10+ year member]

How do you not get 100% on a take home test regardless of subject??

There are teachers that give the class to vote whether they want to have a take home or in class, and most of the time at universities, the take home would take you 2 weeks to finish or so. If ever given the choice, always choose in class test =]

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

what school is this? I am pulling a B average without studying right now. Dynamics is cake. But really, its a take home test and you got all the resources to help you out plus its not cheating to get "help". //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Supergumby5000 5,000+ posts]

what school is this? I am pulling a B average without studying right now. Dynamics is cake. But really, its a take home test and you got all the resources to help you out plus its not cheating to get "help". //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Washington state university.

My dynamics teacher is italian and barely fluent in english. All of our homework is realistic situations with numbers to work with.

All of our test are theoretical derivations. If you cant derive every equation in a realistic situation, you wont pass. Our last test we had ZERO given variables. Answers are represented by derived equations.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

the bell curve is stupid.. its a way to cover up for the teachers... if they give a shitty test(being to easy) then it won't appear so grade wise.. If they don't teach well enough the same still get an a,b,c,d,f so it won't show.. Its ********.. your learning should be teacher-student dependent... not student-class dependent.. Because see it this way.. what if everyone does relatively well.. someone still has to get a D and an F

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

What is a non-realistic situation? Maybe, I am getting taught easy dynamics. Also, my teacher is Russian with a very bad accent and bad English so I feel you on that one though.

I do agree with the bell curve being ********.

 

[AllDayMJ 10+ year member]

I thought about this as well. The only isue with this is that this is dead week, next week is finals week. Final grades arent required to be posted until the week after finals week.
I leave the weekend before the week grades are due for an internship, and i dont know if an email debate is a good idea or not, when i wont be able to physically see the test, or know how i actually did on the test in terms of normal grading.

talk to him before, Ive learned from this, they don't give two shits after the fact. the point is, if you get above a 93% you should still get an A nonetheless.. point of the matter is, its harder to convey your point after than it is before, see if there is a plausible compromise, ie: if you get over X% you guarantee an A no matter how good the rest of the class does, it makes sense to curve all take home tests because the ability to cheat and the likelihood for everyone to do well, but if you miss nearly nothing you shouldn't be cheated out on a good grade. Problem is, that X% will probably be in that top 20% of your class, but if you are already getting an A, your probably be in that group anyway.