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[cornerofmadness]

I'm lucky that my anatomy mid term from last semester was pretty darn good since I'm just revamping it for tomorrow because I got sick. Yeah. Bronchitis is trying to get in the door. I want my mommy. In lieu of that I made stratticelli soup.

And I'm going to have to get innovative to enable my students in the non major class to pass...looking at the 5 most missed questions and letting them redo them (WITH notes) for 1% point apiece, due in ONE day's time. (and some STILL won't pass)

off to make edits to my Spook 'Em ficathon story

and to make my physiology mid term!

Comments

[ba4ever.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Why aren't you my prof? Phys is kicking my ass. I studied hard, and I thought I knew everything, and I only ended up with a 65 on my midterm. Blech.

Though I totally think it's wrong to make a midterm worth 30% and only have 43 q's.

*sigh*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh that IS cruel. i don't do that. I hate weighting tests and won't do it unless forced to.

[ba4ever.livejournal.com]

So wait..I don't get it, how do mark these exams? How can you gage how well you're doing?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

strict percentage

[ba4ever.livejournal.com]

So does that mean everything's equal??

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no, that means you get whatever you earn. If you get 90-100% right you get an A (the highest mark) 80-89 = B and so forth until you get under 70% which isn't passing.

[ba4ever.livejournal.com]

Ya but..we have to weigh the midterms (and labs) because we have more than one.

So what if I ace one midterm and fail the next?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

at the end all the tests are averaged together

[ba4ever.livejournal.com]

Well than it's essentially weighted, just evenly?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes, tests count for 60% of the total grade in my anatomy class, lab 25% and quizzes 15%