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October 23, 2009
Grading woes
How do you find a NEW way to make your professor pull out his hair?
I'm finishing off the last round of European Studies 101 midterms this morning (yay!) and I hit one that doesn't make sense. Oh, the answers are fine, it's the math. I add up the column of figures and it's too high - this lad is making 8s and 8.8s, an occasional 9, and even one 7, but I get 91.something or other. So I do it on my calculator. Same answer (which at least shows that the caffeine has kicked in and I can add).
THEN I check the column - there are eleven numbers! He did an extra question!
Yes, it's my fault - I did one of those "choose 1" tests, and two of the groups had 3 possibilities and he did TWO.
So, drop the lower grade of those two and he hits an 83. Big sigh of relief.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 23, 2009 7:29 AM