Is this acceptable behaviour from an MSF teacher?
Hi,
So we got our grades back for an exam, and the smartest people of the class did badly (failed or average) while the "idiots" got very high grades. One of the clever guys who failed went to the teacher, did all the calculations in front of the teacher who then said "no, it's wrong". The student insisted until the teacher did the calculations himself, and came to the same answer.
The student then said "Since it IS correct, give me a good grade like I deserve, I mean everything was correct". The teacher then said No, because the student had initially given the wrong answer, crossed it out, and then gave the correct answer. The logic of the teacher was that this showed that the student didn't fully understand the topic.
This is absolutely ridiculous, right?? An arrogant teacher who is dumber than the students he teaches.
What could we do about this? We have the final exam coming up soon in this subject, and going in thinking "it doesn't matter how well I do or how smart I am, the grading will be like getting a Random number in Excel."
You'd think they would avoid hiring fucktards to decide our futures!
Thanks!
Talk to an advisor maybe?
What school are you at?
A school in the UK. The thing is that the guy is also Director of the MSF. How? I don't know... I guess assholes climb the ladder the fastest...
So the only way would be to go to the dean of the business school...but maybe he'll have a personal vendetta against me.
Send it to the newspaper?
Well I obviously don't want to ruin the reputation of my school just because one guy is an idiot.
Go to the dean.
Read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and try to handle things more diplomatically in the future. People are generally sensible if you approach them in the proper manner. My guess is that you went in there told the prof they were wrong, bruised his ego and now he doesn't want to help you and won't cave. You have to give people an opportunity to save face when they are mistaken, just saying they are wrong doesn't help anyone.
Yeh, I know I'm right, mainly because I let the guy next to me copy off me because he didn't know how to answer the questions. So pretty much exactly the same answers, though I would have had slightly better on the theoretical part. I got B+, he got A+...
Looks like totally random grading.
so your evidence is that you "let the guy beside you cheat off you and he got a higher grade" that is gonna get you very far
If its going to seriously affect your GPA complain to a dean/advisor, otherwise move on.
Tangent: Once had a physics test with the following answer choices a) 0 b) -0 c) .0 d) .5
My teacher claimed that -0 was the only correct answer
If you cheated on an exam, you might do drop this and move one...let sleeping dogs lie
Ok,
First, I care not because it will affect my GPA too much, but because I can't trust that this idiot will grade the actual final exam fairly.
Second, no that is not my evidence that I will use. I will of course not mention that at all. Look, think of your own class, imagine a complete turn of tables where every blatant idiot in your class gets A+ while the "geniuses" (not myself included, though I am smarter than most idiots) fail! I mean the guy that went to the teacher has the highest average in the class, and scored 760 on the GMAT.
Also, perhaps more importantly, we were given the "answers" to the test after we got the results. I had given the same answers and arguably better and more complete answers. Also, we were recently given answers from this guy to a mock exam, and there were so many mistakes. He's a fucking moron!
I should go to the dean, and then get the guy deported.
shoot him dead
Shit bro, you're a PB in the making. Your advice always involves violence.
I'd hire you.
Go to the papers and write a huge column about how the children are fucked because there is no accountability in schools.
I had a teacher in jr high that tried to convince me that it would make more sense for bill gates to leave a 100 dollar bill on the ground then for him to take the 5 seconds it would take to pick it up because that would prevent him from working those 5 seconds. Let's just say I schooled that bitch on the properties of capital gains and dividend distributions. She refused to believe me, so I got a presentation and was giving it to the class before class started. Se wasn't happy about this and sent me to the principal. Let's just make this story short and say I was not the first one to leave that jr high for good.
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