Student's or Professor's Fault?

ticklemepink
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:15:10 +0000

Seriously, the last thing you ever want to do is throw the blame on the professor unless it’s absolutely, absolutely a BIG deal that you have to attract the attention of the administrators.

Sure the curve doesn’t look all that great but if this professor’s taught the course before, rest assured that s/he is doing everything s/he can. Also professors are extremely reluctant to change their syllabi just because one test went very bad. This is exactly the point where (good) professors will approach poor students individually to encourage them to come in for office hours or get some tutoring. It’s about privacy too. It does seem unfair that the professors would just continue like this but this is college and they only have so much material to cover! Also there’s the issue of making sure the students know everything that they need to know for the upper-level classes. If the students go into the upper level classes without mastery any BASIC concept, then… that’s where the blame game can begin.

Like everyone said- welcome to college where you worry about YOU and no one else. Keep your attention towards the professor, not your classmates (do you trust them when they say that they studied their asses off? Everyone has their own definition of how much time of studying is alot)