Xref: utzoo comp.edu:1000 rec.humor.d:606 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!k.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.edu,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads Message-ID: <706@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 11 Mar 88 11:47:36 GMT References: <18618@topaz.rutgers.edu> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 18 Summary: All my exams are like this In article , mlevine@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Levine) writes: (Much omitted) > 10. Explain to the students that the test was intentionally > designed to be impossible to pass, but after the curve, a 45% would be > equivalent to a C. I always have 45% a C, especially in service courses. I also tell the students in advance that this will be the case, and that concepts will be graded as far more important than manipulations and regurgitation. However, I do not consider that as designing the test to be impossible or even difficult to pass, and I _never_ grade on a curve. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet