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[meorae]

Teachers are just wonderful when they don't give partial credit. I've gotten c's on the two tests I've had this year, in precalculus and chemistry, because of incredibly stupid mistakes and not being given partial credit for my work. When there's only 5 or 10 questions on a test, partial credit is what keeps everyone from failing. If you make mistakes on 2 or 3 questions you end up doing badly if there's no partial credit, even if you understand the information that the questions were testing. And I don't understand that. If I had had more time, if I had showed my work to someone and asked them to check it, my mistakes would have been caught and fixed. Because I was rushing, because I thought I knew the information and wouldn't make mistakes, I'm starting the year off with c's in what used to be my best classes. And I just don't understand Magill and Bookston's view that mistakes in basic math or in reading the question shouldn't get even partial credit. As you should enter the course with those abilities or something. Yet you should get partial credit if you make a mistake because you don't understand the material? What? That's what at least bookston seemed to be saying.

And I mean, I don't particularly care about the grades. Both teachers are letting us make up the grade somehow, and I mean there will be a number of other tests and projects to pull my term grade up even if I don't retake them. I just dislike it because of the fact that two or three stupid mistakes on my part gave me c's. And that doesn't seem right.

I came home right after school, and yet I've only played around with python, even though we didn't actually have computer programming homework. So I still have math, history and english homework. And should probably also study for the chem test addendum tomorrow. And this was a horribly boring post that no one cares about, but hey, I felt the need to write this down before starting my homework.

Comments

[duello.livejournal.com]

:( Bookston's just crazy. I think his predictions are totally wrong and no one will get A's in his class.

... oh well? At least we don't really have to work in math this year...

[acern.livejournal.com]

*Pats* You know I sympathize with your complaints about Bookston. >>

[wirlia.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. Like, either more partial credit, or more questions that are worth fewer points each.

School's been kinda sucky.

[highclimber101.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*