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In college I had a class where 25% of the final grade was Exam One, 25% Exam Two, 25% Exam Three, and 25% Homework. I got 100s on all of the exams, but never d

In college I had a class where 25% of the final grade was Exam One, 25% Exam Two, 25% Exam Three, and 25% Homework. I got 100s on all of the exams, but never did any homework, so I got a C for the class. In later semesters, I realized I could convince professors to give me a higher letter grade than what the sylabus prescribed, but for that class, oh well.

Silica6149 4y ago
For doing well on exams but not the homework? If so that's very lenient of them, but understandable. I prefer professors just make homework extra credit and make exams a large part of the grade.
caminante 4y ago
But you prepped for the exams, right? That's the equivalent of homework. If not, then your situation is an extreme outlier.
- hatmatrix 4y ago
  There are many types of homework and undoubtedly some are not useful. These fall into the category which we often refer to as "busywork" - they are assigned for the sake of assigning homework because that's what instructors feel they should do. The useful kind of homework we can categorize as being helpful for the exam, and those which are useful even beyond the exam. In principle, they should be correlated, but there are also many ways to create useless exams too.
  - caminante 4y ago
    Be honest. How often would you expect to do zero homework assignments throughout a course and get straight 100s on all of the exams? That's the parent's claim that they did no HW and got 100s on the exams. Debating whether different HW assignments have varying ROI is a different issue.
- MerelyMortal 4y ago
  No. I didn't study at all and graduated from a major state university with an engineering degree. If I had to do it all over again, I would take it more seriously. (I am not an engineer. I just thought an engineering degree would be the most practical to take/learn. I could have learned more, but at the time, I didn't have the desire to.)
dam_broke_it 4y ago
How far back is this?? College in the 90s, I had very little homework outside of papers and programming assignments....
- MerelyMortal 4y ago
  Around 2010

Silica6149 4y ago

For doing well on exams but not the homework? If so that's very lenient of them, but understandable. I prefer professors just make homework extra credit and make exams a large part of the grade.

caminante 4y ago

But you prepped for the exams, right? That's the equivalent of homework. If not, then your situation is an extreme outlier.

hatmatrix 4y ago
There are many types of homework and undoubtedly some are not useful. These fall into the category which we often refer to as "busywork" - they are assigned for the sake of assigning homework because that's what instructors feel they should do. The useful kind of homework we can categorize as being helpful for the exam, and those which are useful even beyond the exam. In principle, they should be correlated, but there are also many ways to create useless exams too.
- caminante 4y ago
  Be honest. How often would you expect to do zero homework assignments throughout a course and get straight 100s on all of the exams? That's the parent's claim that they did no HW and got 100s on the exams. Debating whether different HW assignments have varying ROI is a different issue.
MerelyMortal 4y ago
No. I didn't study at all and graduated from a major state university with an engineering degree. If I had to do it all over again, I would take it more seriously. (I am not an engineer. I just thought an engineering degree would be the most practical to take/learn. I could have learned more, but at the time, I didn't have the desire to.)

dam_broke_it 4y ago

How far back is this?? College in the 90s, I had very little homework outside of papers and programming assignments....

MerelyMortal 4y ago
Around 2010