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I think making the exam really hard is more likely to backfire and push people to cheat. One of the main drivers of cheating is the perception of unfairness.
by mkl 5y ago
I think making the exam really hard is more likely to backfire and push people to cheat. One of the main drivers of cheating is the perception of unfairness. The time limitation is not really an obstacle if you're organised, just divide and conquer doing a subset of the questions each.
- 10000truths 5y agoAlmost every college and university course I took would curve grades to adjust for difficulty. I’ve even had professors tell me that top scorers in a test were only expected to get x% of questions correct.
- shagie 5y agoI recall calc 2 exam that I had... It was a rather hard exam and I left with a bit of a "meh" feeling to how well I did on it. The professor handed back the exam the next lecture with the percent on it. I was looking at a 50% on my exam. This was a Tuesday Thursday class (rather than MWF) and so was an hour and a half long. I'm staring at my exam thinking "F, maybe a D, hope I got a C, I'd settle for a D, probably an F... hope I got a C" all through the lecture. Just before the bell rang, the professor wrote the curve on the chalkboard. * 100 - 75 : A * 50 - 75 : B I don't remember any of the rest... I was stuck on "I got a B!" As I left, my TA congratulated me for getting a B.