It certainly seems like there's a wave of grade anxiety in the class over grades for the first term. There appears to be two camps on both ends of the bell curve: 1) those that are worried about not QCing a class or two and 2) those that are trying to get an A. I call it "Post-Term Grade Stress Syndrome". :) It's a balance of the "stick" avoiding the bottom 10% or the "carrot" incenting us to achieve the top 10%.
The question to ask is: are we positively or adversely affected by the new grading policy? We haven't gotten a lot of clarity on it yet and the uncertainty is causing some concern. Our profs can't even explain it yet. And I think it has caused our class to be too grade focused. Everyone went "pedal to the metal" on finals last term. From what I hear from Class 31, the hyper-competitiveness starts to calm down in Term 2-3...
It was good to get graded final exams, solutions and distributions back for MGEC 603 and ACCT 620 last week. Prior to the start of Term 2, we also got email from Prof Ryan on our FAP grades. A lot of the class is speculating how MGMT 621 is going to be graded.
Unfortunately, there's no way to find out what our final grades are. It's just a waiting game now. Wish I could sit next to the mailbox!
-Chairman P
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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Great blog. I wish someone had documented our experience in Class 29. Congratulations on being done with your first quarter! Zornitza
Professor Ryan's class is bullshit and the grading even worse. Just for putting me through that class with that hack for a professor made me respect the program so much less.
How was it graded? We received our grades and I still haven't figured it out.
I didn't receive an A on either the midterm paper or the FAP, yet I got an A in the course, while someone else in the same group with a better paper score than me got a B. Go figure.
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