ucla_ftw

"Guys---the reason your average is higher in lecture 3 is because certain people get answers from people in lecture 1 and, thus, do better on the test."

Wow, that's pretty bad if people actually do that. I thought cheating was done after high school. If people are getting away with this...then that is a serious problem. I don't want to get screwed by the curve because some people got the questions ahead of time.

"I saw the midterm. The test itself wasnt very hard. I'm a tutor for the class and covered almost everything EXPLICITLY in section (I guessed pretty well). What was harsh was how tough they graded it. I saw continuous 0/3's because students were missing one particular word or phrase that SHOULD have eqauted to at least 2/3 pts."

I disagree, I think the test was difficult in comparison to the past midterms that were in the pink book. PLUS they graded really tough.

uclacee

Ow wow, now it seems obvious that lec 3 people get answers from lec 1. I know this sounds weird, but I feel stupid for not realizing that some people do that. But yeah, I totally agree with ucla_ftw. I do things honestly, so it really stinks that I have to get screwed by the dishonest people. But yeah, that's the way the world runs, I guess.

When I asked my TA why lec 3 had such a higher mean, he just said that different TAs grade it, but come to think of it, that doesn't make any sense since Scerri must give them all the same grading standard.

Gotlactose

What are these "natural breaks or gaps in the ranking"? So say some people have 85-90 percent, then another group have 70-80 percent and he decides that the former will be As and the latter will be Bs and anybody in between will get A-/B+ depending which range they're closer to?