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Originally Posted by salukigirl
I guess what I look at is that I consistently get the highest grades in the class. I got the highest grade on 2/3 lecture exams, a lab practical and the final lab practical. Plus I had the best collection in the class. I kind of feel like....if your best student has an 84%...maybe that means you're asking too much.
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Agreed. We had a second lab test and the first lab test's average was around 40-45% varying in which lab day we were in. The second test had an average of 80-85% varying in the lab day. So sometimes I think profs think the students know more than they do but others times it's the opposite.
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
Not to mention this is ZOOL 471. Half of the students are masters/phd students and the other half are seniors. He treats it like that should be our only class. When we're all taking other 300-400 level classes. It just doesn't seem right to expect THAT much out of people who are already pressured and stacked to their fullest.
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Many of my profs are like that, they don't care if we're taking other courses, unless there's a conflict in times for exams or tests. It sometimes gets annoying because one of my classes ends at 9 pm and I'll have a test during it, then the next day I'll have a test at 12, and for the entire week I'm working on my research paper, studying for another test, etc... .
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
But when I study for WEEKS and get a C....that just doesn't sit well with me. It just seems to me like he is forgetting how it was to be in this position. He is 68...been here over 40 years and teaches a single class every semester. So it seems like he feels that because he has enough time to sit around and look over all this stuff and he thinks it's easy that we should too.
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From what I've been told, getting into grad schools years ago was much easier than it is today, although that may be for only certain fields. Regardless though, the professor may not realize that or something along those lines. But I agree with you, I think it's arrogant and downright nonsensical to think that simply because the instructor teaches only 1 course then the students take only 1 course. Other profs I've had would tell us that the content (for a 2nd year course) is easy. I end up thinking "Well it should be for him/her because they've got a PhD in it and I don't have even a Bachelor's".
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
I talked to him today about it - he came into my lab. I said "you gave us those pages telling us they were for us and to help us key out insects. We never went over it in the lab" and he said "well I still gave it to you". So apparently it doesn't matter to him that he told us it was for our "own personal benefit". He pretty much said tough noogies. So we'll see. I don't think he will turn in grades with the highest one being a B so maybe he'll curve it but I doubt it.
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You can always check on their policies. We had a course in medical pharmacology where too high of a proportion of the class got high marks on the exam so marks had to be altered bit.
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Originally Posted by salukigirl
And sorry, Gray. I was so livid when I was posting all that stuff. I shouldn't have been so harsh. I can see where you are coming from, I guess it's just different when you're the one taking it and when you're the one giving it. I just hope I never become the kind of professor that intentionally tries to trip people up on exams.
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It's fine, I understand.
I agree, I wouldn't want to be a prof that goes all "muhawhaw, I tricked you and you actually HAVE to know this thing I said you didn't before muhawhaw" *Fiddle with thumbs leaning back in the chair cockily*.