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12-02-2011 07:40 PM |
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Originally Posted by Burning Down
(Post 1127086)
Don't feel bad. I had a take-home exam for one of my political science courses last year, and I had two days to complete it, so I thought "what the hell, they won't know that I'm researching info I need to know for this thing." Instructors should expect that if they're assigning take-home exams.
Of course, instructors want everyone to pass, or at least as many students as possible receiving a passing grade. Here, they usually have a quota to meet (I think it's 80% or something), and exceeding that quota looks really good on their record. I had one professor in first year that was actually suspended last year, because for three consecutive semesters (or four, I don't remember), less than 60% of students passed her course.
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Yea, and I'm totally OK with that too. I know I'm learning what I need to know, and I'm responsible for that, regardless of test scores.
But, I know a lot of people that basically only pay attention when it comes to preparing for tests, and only for the short-term to get that degree. Those are usually the people (in my field, anyway) that get to their jobs not knowing what the hell they're doing and end up working menial, low-pay craptastic jobs that barely have anything to do with the field they paid all that money to learn about. |
