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ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as...
SOMETIMES BAD is so obvious that it is perhaps better called bad, because it is neither widely accepted nor unnoticed. Take, for instance, the non-uniform grading curves that exist in large courses, making getting the right TF equivalent to winning the GPA lottery.
In addition, said Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy, harsh grading the sciences in a turn-off for many prospective concentrators.
Third is the idea that the examinations would come in for grading in a more or less steady flow. Not likely. Were you at study card day last September? Hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. We should "reasonably" expect a steady stream of cards at Memorial Hall. Imagine my...
Teaching fellows might be concerned that grading would be a nightmare with all exams coming in on the last possible day. But, reasonably, we should expect exam returns to be more spaced out than before. And there's nothing wrong with scoring a few exams each day (or piling them...