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That sounds like a hellacious place to attend school. That's like judging an engineer based on a blended average of their output, for 3 months, compared to Nik
by quuquuquu 9y ago
That sounds like a hellacious place to attend school.
That's like judging an engineer based on a blended average of their output, for 3 months, compared to Nikola Tesla.
If you can't compete with him, sorry, it's gonna have to be a B-.
- moretai 9y agoYeah, is there a reason to grade on a curve? I don't understand the competition if it the point is to understand the material. There is no evidence that the real world operates on a meritocracy.
- Gibbon1 9y agoThe deal is when you grade on a curve a B- means something other than 'totally failed' or as an old instructor of mine said, back when I went to school a B was a good grade. Also my mothers comment was if everyone does really really well on a test then it wasn't hard enough. The reverse is sort of true. If everyone does poorly then either the test test was too hard or the instructor failed to teach the material.
- quuquuquu 9y agoWhile I agree with you, the biased reader of my job application is looking for any reason to deny me :)
- akhilcacharya 9y agoAnd what happens after you graduate? No matter if you got a 4.0, you're still never going to be graded the same as a Stanford grad*. It's set for life (unless you go to Stanford for a MS/PhD..)