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Me: Biology grades are posted!
Rob: And?
Me: I'm not the highest grade in the class. I'm down a third of a percentage point from someone in the afternoon lab section.
Rob: You suck.
[LJ-CUT TEXT="grades stuff"]
I'm ticked at myself for not getting 100% on that exam, given that I knew the material very very well thank you, but dangit I bet I can pull ahead of that other student muah hah hah. ;-)
In all seriousness, I'm very pleased. I'm thrilled. And I'm LOVING bio class AND bio lab.
Chem: 86%. I am annoyed, because I should have been able to do those problems, but apparently the average was sixty, and I learned that she does grade on a curve applied at the end of the semester on total points earned. Depending on how many drop the class in the next few weeks, I may or may not be on track for an A in there too, but I'm not an A on my own merit. Not yet, anyway.[/LJ-CUT]
Physics exam tomorrow. And physics lab. And bio lab. I want a nap.
Hey! Bio lab yesterday gave me a name and a concept to go with those weird little yellow fuzzy worm-shaped things that fall in the hot tub all the time. Those are MALE pine cones. Who'd'a thunk it?
Rob: And?
Me: I'm not the highest grade in the class. I'm down a third of a percentage point from someone in the afternoon lab section.
Rob: You suck.
[LJ-CUT TEXT="grades stuff"]
I'm ticked at myself for not getting 100% on that exam, given that I knew the material very very well thank you, but dangit I bet I can pull ahead of that other student muah hah hah. ;-)
In all seriousness, I'm very pleased. I'm thrilled. And I'm LOVING bio class AND bio lab.
Chem: 86%. I am annoyed, because I should have been able to do those problems, but apparently the average was sixty, and I learned that she does grade on a curve applied at the end of the semester on total points earned. Depending on how many drop the class in the next few weeks, I may or may not be on track for an A in there too, but I'm not an A on my own merit. Not yet, anyway.[/LJ-CUT]
Physics exam tomorrow. And physics lab. And bio lab. I want a nap.
Hey! Bio lab yesterday gave me a name and a concept to go with those weird little yellow fuzzy worm-shaped things that fall in the hot tub all the time. Those are MALE pine cones. Who'd'a thunk it?
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I still have a bit of trouble accepting the whole concept of the grade curve. I'm an absolutist where the amount of knowledge is concerned, dammit. :-) Although I am getting used to it, and hopefully it will save my you-know-what in my current math class.
Good luck on the physics today.
no subject
I too am an absolutist about knowledge / understanding. Either I've got the concepts (or the facts) or I don't. The emotional part of my brain wants a letter grade to quantify that.