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You could also not count homework towards the GPA. I studied in France where the system is a bit different. We had homework, and they were graded so we could g

You could also not count homework towards the GPA. I studied in France where the system is a bit different. We had homework, and they were graded so we could get feedback, but the idea that a homework grade would count towards your GPA would have seemed utterly absurd. Homework was meant to help you master the material and figure out if you understood it, not evaluate you! Exams were taken in a large hall, with many supervisors. We also had graded projects to complete during the semesters, but no two students (or group of students for group projects) were assigned the same project. Doing my graduate studies in the US came as a shock. There was a ton of homework, and the grade mattered! This meant that if you already knew or understood the material, you couldn't just skip the homework: you had to do the whole stupid thing.

itsybitsycoder 12y ago
I went to school in Canada; all of the classes had homework, but in some classes homework counted for GPA and in some it didn't. A good chunk of the students would do the homework that counted and skip all the homework that didn't, whether they needed it or not. The end result being less learning and lower grades in the classes where homework didn't count. To be fair most of those students weren't exactly on the high end of the grade scale to begin with and it's their own fault if they chose not to do the homework. But from the prof's POV, if they wanted people to succeed in their classes, it was better to have the homework count. There is probably some cultural reason why French students can be relied on to do their homework more than US/Canadians.