Herbert Graf wrote:
> Not going to comment on the other stuff (went through my share of good
> and bad profs), however, just because the highest grade was 55% means
> NOTHING. One of the BEST profs I had gave us an exam where the highest
> mark was 57% (I didn't get the highest, but I did at least pass). Oh,
> and all the students agreed this prof was great, so it wasn't just me.
Well, all of my fellow student friends agree that this is a horrible 
profesor (extremely smart - yes, but he can't forward the information on 
to others effectively), so it isn't just me either :)

> With many schools, in the end the actual mark you get doesn't matter
> much, just keep track of how you're doing relative to your fellow
> students. 
> 
> In the end marks are shifted so that the class average is some
> "acceptable" number, shifting everyone's marks accordingly. At the
> school I went to there were SEVERAL courses where the final mark I got
> was only possible if I had gotten MORE then 100% on the final exam (in
> one course the final mark I got meant I got almost 160% on the final
> exam...).
Oh, I know we'll all get decent grades on this class. This particular 
teacher gives out a lot of extra credit (sometime shard, sometimes 
trivial), which should make up for it. The problem is not the final 
grade (hopefully), it's the frustration caused by the class.

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Hector Martin (hector@marcansoft.com)
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