<p>69 test average ain’t bad (I’m not accounting for how the final is weighted). I thought it would be much worse considering how people talk about him. The GPA is probably because of the amount of D/Fs and Cs. The average seems to result from the teacher designing a scale that sets the average to about a C (most people get Cs because that range is 20 points), I suppose that’s fair.</p>
<p>the mean was a 75</p>
<p>If his average was over a 2.0, then it was a probation semester 
The lowest teachers usually have a probation semester ever two or three years where they have to not-fail-everyone, so they do just enough to get off probation. But good job on getting an A! :)</p>
<p>Ilyssa, </p>
<p>Ya – our average pre exam was around a… 50 I think for Bellisard. He does curve massively, just kind of demoralizes you when you get a test back and the average was in the 40s lol. </p>
<p>And thanks for mentioning about the registration, I did not know it was up.</p>
<p>**just checked… sweet mother of mercy Morley is a teacher 0.o</p>
<p>^I completly understand that. My physics class had test averages in the 50s…for two testss, my teacher curved a 53 to a 59. I really dont see what the point of that is lol. But it is demoralizing studying really hard to get a bad grade. But I understand why they do it. There was so many time I would get depressed in physics 2212 because I studied extremly hard and got a bad grades sometimes, but I had to keep working hard and go into the tests like this was the one that would make a difference and not letting bad grades keep me from doing my best on the next test. In the end, i made a 90 on a test when the average was a 59, and I really felt like my hard work had paid off. I did really well on the final and made an A in the class.
on the final so I ended up with an A</p>
<p>@ekb242, actually, I talked to tutors who had Geronimo last fall and they said it was almost exactly the same way. With even around the same test averages!</p>
<p>From talking to Prof. Geronimo one on one, he really does want people to do well. He gives out practice tests that are very helpful in studying for the exam, he lets us have 2 points on our test average for doing homework, and he lets you have a 100 for a quiz average if you go to class. That is our curve. We do not automatically just get to add 20 points. You actually have to do homework and go to class to get the curve which only ends up being about 5 points so the A/b/ cutoffs are close to the 90/80 range.</p>
<p>For the exams? Are you counting the quizzes? I maybe left out the 80 if that’s the exam average. 75 is stereotypical for a science or math class. That’s good. Tech is just more willing to fail the others. Normally here, for classes like that, they apply a huge boost to those with really low scores to achieve the desired 2.? average. Those at the top are hardly affected. Emory’s solution for E and M with hard profs. is simply to scale the exams vs. the grading scale that is already in place. In hard years, it probably comes out close to a 2.5. I feel kind of bad for my friends who took mechanics this fall. It was infinitely more rigorous than when I took it. And that guy (who is indeed much better than my prof.) won’t curve. The average will certainly be lower than 2.5. The guy teaching E and M this year actually has a BS and PhD from Tech. Heard he’s cool (he looks like a hippie lol), but I doubt he’ll be easy.</p>
<p>the average for physics 2212 classical fall 2010 was a 2.1…with 14% of the class making As, and 30% of the class getting Ds and Fs.</p>