<p>If you really want to fool calculus teachers, learn to use fractional calculus effectively.</p>
<p>If you leave a question blank, does it count as wrong? It’s certainly not “correct”… Maybe if you handed in a blank test and proclaimed that you got every one wrong, he would be impressed by your (my) original thinking and give you an A…</p>
<p>By the way, this was, for many years, the grading scheme on the final exam in 6.004 Computation Structures at MIT. There were 100 true/false questions. You gained 1 point for each question you got right, lost one point for each question you got wrong, and your score was unchanged for an answer left blank. If you managed 100 wrong answers on the exam you were guaranteed an A in the course regardless of your performance to date.</p>
<p>I cannot recall anyone trying for it who was not failing the course already. Frankly, not only do you have to know all 100 answers, but you have to KNOW THAT YOU KNOW all 100 answers. If you are certain of 99 of the 100 but are 50-50 on that last one, you are much better off taking the 99 (which will be an A) than potentially going out in a blaze of glory.</p>
<p>True or false really changes the entire discussion! Even kids failing a course shouldn’t try at the true/false one… At least on MC you have a 75 or 80% chance of being wrong depending on number of choices. And if it’s free response…random pictures? :D</p>
<p>Thats exactly wat i was thinking SillBill. Just leave everything blank lol.</p>
<p>Ok. Now I want to know what happened. (So…what happened?)</p>
<p>I wish my teacher would do this, although I would probably not take him up on the offer, it is very cool nonetheless.</p>
<p>It reminded me of my calc bc class from like 2 years ago
this freshmen girl (MOPer) had like 105+% (we get extra credit for doing well on the CAML, Mandelbrot, AMC, AIME and USAMO)
so she was like " Can i just not take the final and get my A?"
Next day, the teacher made the final worth 25% instead of 15%.
I miss the days when I got points for math contests… sigh</p>
<p>and my current math teacher has this i-don’t-care-if-you-take-the-final-or-not-since-you-are-going-to-fail-it-anyways" policy. the final is suppose to be super super insane. however, he drop the lowest test score and replace with your second lowest test score.</p>
<p>Well, I went for it and succeeded in failing. It was quite nerve-wracking: There was one question I had no idea how to do, and I spent 20 minutes on it until I was almost out of time and had to fill in the scantron. It was the most stressful guess I made all last week, knowing my grade in the entire course rode on that one question. But in the end, I got a 0–excuse me, 100–and the scantron looks pretty sweet with solid red marks down the side.</p>
<p>Congrats on your 0!</p>
<p>oh wow…congratulations…I never would have been crazy enough to do that!</p>
<p>I got 100 on my calc bc final last year…but it was curved…so that doesn’t really count (although it was a previous years AP test, so it pretty much had to be curved in order for anyone to ace the multiple choice within the time constraints)</p>
<p>wow risky…I would have taken the 95</p>
<p>LOL, it would be cool if my teachers had done that, but then again I don’t know if I would actually dare to actually try to fail. Man, one question right and my A would go out the window.</p>
<p>That was stupid, but I admire you for it anyway. Nice job!</p>