You knew how it would be graded, and what you needed to get to pass. Its fair because you know what you need to get right, you just didnt put in the effortasmidir said:
Negative Marks or How the School System Kicked me in the Nuts
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My college requires you to at least have a passing grade of 65% for tests, but in order to continue you need to have at least an 80% grade average. Every tests I have you don't get points DEDUCTED for not answering, but you obviously don't get those points added (assuming it was a 4 point question, you don't get negative 8 if you don't answer, but you don't get the full four).
I think it's fair though, only maybe because of what I'm used to. If you can't even answer HALF the questions, you shouldn't pass. Only knowing HALF the questions shouldn't allow you to pass either. But I may be being a bit strict. I'm a psychology major anyways. /shrug
I think it's fair though, only maybe because of what I'm used to. If you can't even answer HALF the questions, you shouldn't pass. Only knowing HALF the questions shouldn't allow you to pass either. But I may be being a bit strict. I'm a psychology major anyways. /shrug
only A B C D E? man you had it easy. Some of my classes they had 1,2,3,4,5 AND ABCDE. It would be something like
A) 1 and 2
B) 1 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3
D) 2 and 4
E) 3 and 4
if the correct answer was say 1,2 and 3 but you circled A you still got it wrong.
and *shudder* at histology. My professor lined up 12ish microscopes for our final and gave us a couple of minutes at each microscope in order to identify what tissue we were looking at.
A) 1 and 2
B) 1 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3
D) 2 and 4
E) 3 and 4
if the correct answer was say 1,2 and 3 but you circled A you still got it wrong.
and *shudder* at histology. My professor lined up 12ish microscopes for our final and gave us a couple of minutes at each microscope in order to identify what tissue we were looking at.
Penalising people for leaving the question blank pretty clearly defeats the point of using negative marking to cancel out guessing.
With regards to differing pass marks, it seem pretty clear that someone who gets a 60% at one university could get a 50% or a 70% at another and the grades are awarded accordingly. At my university 40% is a pass, 50% a C, 60% a B, 70% an A. According to the uni's webpage on grading and how it works with foreign exchange students, a grade A or A+ student from the US would be a grade A student here, a grade A- or B+ student from the US would be a grade B here etc. So the systems are pretty similar in terms of actual ability required to pass, they just differ in terms of how the exams are set up. Otherwise my university with its 40% pass mark would be nowhere near as high in the rankings as it is.
With regards to differing pass marks, it seem pretty clear that someone who gets a 60% at one university could get a 50% or a 70% at another and the grades are awarded accordingly. At my university 40% is a pass, 50% a C, 60% a B, 70% an A. According to the uni's webpage on grading and how it works with foreign exchange students, a grade A or A+ student from the US would be a grade A student here, a grade A- or B+ student from the US would be a grade B here etc. So the systems are pretty similar in terms of actual ability required to pass, they just differ in terms of how the exams are set up. Otherwise my university with its 40% pass mark would be nowhere near as high in the rankings as it is.
