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This is the same as my experience growing up in Australia - right the way from primary school up to university-level subjects, mathematics working is marked and
by joppy 5y ago
This is the same as my experience growing up in Australia - right the way from primary school up to university-level subjects, mathematics working is marked and you get almost full points if you solve the problem correctly but just make some clerical error somewhere. Even if you can show progress towards a solution but can’t quite get the last bit, you’ll often get 7 or 8 out of 10.
- WalterBright 5y agoAt Caltech you'd get partial credit for getting partway to the correct solution. But, if you got a nonsense result (like negative energy), you'd get negative credit unless you included a note: I know the answer is absurd, but I don't know where I went wrong.
- pertymcpert 5y agoNegative credit? You mean you lost marks vs not answering the question at all?
- WalterBright 5y agoYup. That was institute policy, not the professor's discretion. They were pretty clear about thinking whether the answer was reasonable or not.
- SamBam 5y agoMakes sense, with the situation that if the student includes the note then they are not penalized. It's pretty important to be able to recognize if you fat-fingered a calculator and got something ridiculous or not.
- joppy 5y agoI think this is a good policy, and have often been annoyed that I can’t (rules of the university) mark my students down for such absurd answers.