The last question on the test was about recursive descent parsing. We were supposed to write some code to go with some existing code to do a little piece of it, and I just...couldn't. I couldn't figure out how to access the variables I would have needed from the code block I was to write, and I wasn't sure how it was supposed to work anyway. I wrote a couple of lines and then gave up, essentially leaving it blank. Time was up anyway - I had spent most of the two-hour class period doing the first 7 problems.So I was expecting a B.
Last night, when I got the test back, I had scored 55/56, or 98%.
"I didn't grade Question 8," the professor said. "By the time I got there I was just like ... eh. This is enough. No, not really. It's just, I looked, and most of the answers were blank. And the rest were...varying degrees of pseudocode that...yeah. So I decided not to grade it."
It seems fair. Our class has no textbook or any other kind of outside material. If basically nobody can make a decent attempt at answering a test question, it seems likely that you didn't actually teach the material.
And, of course, I was personally pleased to be one of many fuck-ups rather than an individual unique fuck-up.
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Yeah, when the correlation of the item to the overall test is basically zero, it's probably a good idea to throw it out. Glad this one worked out in your favor.
Me too. Had I nailed that one and been completely stuck on a different one I'd have been pissed. (We did have the option of asking him to grade the question for us in case it would help our grade, but I probably would have asked him if I could drop the other question instead.)
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