For classes with curves does it matter which teacher you have?

koto
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:56:02 +0000

Always go for the better teacher. Always.

I don’t understand why this is a question.

It’s so important to you “beat the curve” as opposed to actually being interested and learning something in the course? When there is a better teacher, you are more likely to pay attention and retain information. With the worse teacher, you’ll need to hope you can teach yourself the information. (There are some subjects that are just really difficult to learn alone.)

It also depends on the type of curve you are talking about. Bell curves are hard to deal with, but either way, you’re still looking at putting more work in to be on top. Minor curves based on overall performance of the class (I don’t really know what to call them, “curve” is used as an overarching term for a lot of things nowadays.) are just there to even out the grades depending on what kind of grade the professor sees fit to give more of. (I’ve had courses where the professor gave half the class A’s.)