Semester

Thus spake "Chris Guynn" <chris.guynn@gmail.com> :

>
>"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:yc2wf.36039$9e.14715@tornado.texas.rr.com. ..
>> "Michael Wolf" wrote in message
>news:Xns974517BBDCBB0mwolf@195.130.132.70...
>> > Students with only 40% passed????
>>
>> A Physics professor that I once had claimed that if someone got 100% on
>one
>> of his tests, he had failed in testing them on everything that they
>knew...
>> He said that he made his tests hard / lengthy so that he could be sure
>that
>> that would not be the case... He would fit the grades to a bell curve at
>the
>> end of the semester, but it was rather disconcerting knowing that at the
>end
>> if he didn't, you would fail the course...
>>
>
>I had a physics prof who said that if you were happy with your grade at the
>end of the semester you didn't have to take the final exam but could instead
>accept whatever grade you happened to have before the exam. That same prof
>also said that if you took the final exam (it was cumulative) and scored
>higher than your grade in the class, he would give you your exam grade as
>your class grade becuase you had demonstrated that you understood the
>material he had covered. He also graded on a curve. The first test we took
>in his class, I scored a 99. The next closest score to mine was a 78 and
>the average score was a 34. I knew I had an A in the class after that one
>test.
>

Rat bastard!!!
--
dillon

666 permissions of the beast

"Dillon Pyron" <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:d5fas110t2cfe2on4iqih8v98sg7qdrg9o@4ax.com...
> Thus spake "Chris Guynn" <chris.guynn@gmail.com> :
>
> >
> >"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:yc2wf.36039$9e.14715@tornado.texas.rr.com. ..
> >> "Michael Wolf" wrote in message
> >news:Xns974517BBDCBB0mwolf@195.130.132.70...
> >> > Students with only 40% passed????
> >>
> >> A Physics professor that I once had claimed that if someone got 100% on
> >one
> >> of his tests, he had failed in testing them on everything that they
> >knew...
> >> He said that he made his tests hard / lengthy so that he could be sure
> >that
> >> that would not be the case... He would fit the grades to a bell curve
at
> >the
> >> end of the semester, but it was rather disconcerting knowing that at
the
> >end
> >> if he didn't, you would fail the course...
> >>
> >
> >I had a physics prof who said that if you were happy with your grade at
the
> >end of the semester you didn't have to take the final exam but could
instead
> >accept whatever grade you happened to have before the exam. That same
prof
> >also said that if you took the final exam (it was cumulative) and scored
> >higher than your grade in the class, he would give you your exam grade as
> >your class grade becuase you had demonstrated that you understood the
> >material he had covered. He also graded on a curve. The first test we
took
> >in his class, I scored a 99. The next closest score to mine was a 78 and
> >the average score was a 34. I knew I had an A in the class after that
one
> >test.
> >
>
> Rat bastard!!!

Interestingly, the average (mean) score rose considerably on the remaining
tests and, as far as I could tell, the tests were actually more difficult
even though the material was easier. Of course, that may have been because
I was already assured of my grade and didn't put as much effort into the
class after that point. I figured I could use the extra time to pursue more
important goals... namely women (or, more specifically, a woman).