@St_Rev Seems legit to me. With a bimodal distribution like that, isn’t 30% the right place to draw the line?
@Meaningness I tended to write my exams as 60% trivial, 30% easy, 10% moderate. That way I didn't feel as guilty about flunking people.
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@St_Rev Once took a math final where I couldn’t get any of the Qs. At end time, prof said “let’s hang out for 15 mins and review answers…” -
@Meaningness Once had a topology exam where one of the questions was "write a test problem and answer it". -
@St_Rev I like that! Wish I could remember which class the professor screwed up so badly in designing exam. -
@Meaningness The obvious answer, of course, would be "lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} (write a test problem and solve it)^n"
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@St_Rev “So who got #1?” Silence. “OK, well, here’s the answer to #1. And who got #2?” Silence. Ditto for #3. -
@Meaningness@St_Rev Rota famously gave an exam in 18.03 (not to me) where the passing grade was 0 (you could lose points for wrong answers) -
@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev Now that you mention it, I have a vague memory of that!
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@St_Rev Apparently no one in class got any answers. I got a B… Not sure what anyone else got. -
@Meaningness I had a Russian prof ask me what I thought I deserved in his class. I got a B. -
@St_Rev I got an A in ancient Greek that way. -
@Meaningness I was just taken aback by the question. -
@St_Rev Yes, my A was quite awkward too. I did think I deserved it, having studied intensively toward end of term, but he didn’t know that.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness I once graded "Prove that the power set is a sigma algebra!". We agreed that "That's trivial." gives perfect score.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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