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see mom those F's on my report card show I was learning optimally
by cagenut 7y ago
see mom those F's on my report card show I was learning optimally
- Merrill 7y agoSo B students are learning fastest, and A students are just idling. OTOH, I graded for a Physics prof where 50/100 on his test was about average.
- kiba 7y agoB and A is just a proxy for effectiveness in scoring. However, you do want to be a "B" student when learning, just not in scoring.
- jfk13 7y agoThis rings so true to me! At school (high school, for you Americans -- I don't mean university), I was an "A" student without really trying. Unfortunately, this meant that I didn't learn to try. Eventually (at a prestigious university) I found I could no longer "coast", and studying required real work. It wasn't easy to come to grips with that reality, and I wish I'd learned earlier.
- Merrill 7y agoA's are in part due to attention to detail - reading the instructions very carefully, interpreting the questions just right, setting up problems as intended by the test writer,...
- sova 7y agoGrades are a bit backwards, because learning actually happens when we 1) make an attempt 2) see the result 3) learn from/reflect on the result. Typically school teaches us to do numbers 1 and 2, with very little emphasis on 3