Each question is 10 points. You get 1 point for doing literally anthing. You get another point for doing literally anyhting relevant to the question. The other 8 points are given for things like “correctness”
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And I was actively trying to write shit that would trick the grader into thinking I vaguely knew what I was supposed to do. I copied anything relevant-looking from my crib sheet so there were equations on there
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There were 3 out of 6 questions that I didn’t know how to do but if I can get 5 points from them and then 30 from the ones I did we’re in the clear
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i wish u luck sweetheart ^-^
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how do you get a point for doing irrelevant work
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do u guys have curved grades too? like if a majority of a class does poorly, u still get a good grade? that was so wild to me when i heard that. teachers decimate whole classes here, if u fail u fail
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most of my teachers do something like that because they acknowledge that if the whole class did poorly that says more about them as a teacher than it does about the students
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my actual qualification exams were like this
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but for random tests the teachers just decided the grade boundaries
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so they care more about their own image than to give accurate grades lol
i mean its understandable, teachers here pump up the grades sometimes, or let students cheat. students cheat every opportunity so i dont judge people trying to get by
but like curving the grade, if we were hypothetically trying to be honest / proper, is so dumb. dumb as fuck
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there’s an argument for and against it
if the entire class does poorly it’s more likely that the teacher fucked up teaching or the material was harder than it should be rather than the entire class being stupid
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thats fair. on the flip side the students can all be lazy together and score good grades. like i can see the dumbasses here agreeing to all fail on tests together so they all have it easy, and if anyone sticks out they’d get bullied. do people not agree to pre-arrange stuff like that?
grades are usually curved specifically when absolutely everyone fucks up simultaneously
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i think it’s probably best used in actual exams that count towards things because in that scenario the point of the exams is that you are competing with others to get the best grades to apply to colleges or jobs or whatever, and if like nobody ends up getting the top grade it seems kinda redundant
but during school for random tests, the purpose of those tests is to track if a student is coping okay with the material and can continue studying, right? at least that’s how it was in my school. and i agree that in those scenarios scaling the grades is a bad idea
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in reality this is something that ~never happens
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thats fair. if i was an employer i wouldnt wanna hire no dumbass who failed his exam and only passed coz the others were also dumbasses tho 
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at least as far as i am aware (and in texas to boot so not a good sign) grade curving is forbidden in schools and is strictly a uni thing
but teachers still do it and nobody actually gives a shit really
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classes of students working together to gather money to bribe the teacher for exam answers was common here; dont underestimate the power of teamwork
My university doesn’t curve grades pretty much ever because they hate us <3
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you’re kind of making the assumption that the reason they failed is because they were stupid but it could be due to a number of things, such as bad teaching (Although this wouldn’t help them anyway since they’re scaled on a national level where I live) and the exam paper being harder than it should be
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