The Septimus Notes

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

I was worried about this exam.

We finally got it back today. To make up for administering an exam that was too long (many of us raced to finish in time and almost no one left before time was up) and possibly too hard, our Prof. and TA did something a little creative.

For those of us who completely finished the midterm, we all received 3 bonus points.

If you did not finish the midterm (as in only answered five questions out of the six that were needed of the ten that were provided), however, they guessed what you might have said based on how you answered the other questions and graded you based on that and how they graded you on those other questions.

So if you just didn't answer a question, you got points anyway. It's win/win. But then, here's a question: Might those of us who answered all of the questions have fared better if we just didn't finish the exam at all? Would they have guessed that I would have answered more completely and correctly than I had?

But this isn't really a question for me. It's more a question for those who did really well on most of the questions, but super fucked up on one of them (perhaps the one they left to the end and didn't have time to complete -- perhaps the one on the book/study that they never got around to finishing).

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 14:50.
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