I have heard of courses where the professor “Skewed to the Left”- This is where more students failed than got A’s, and more D’s than B’s.
Oh, and if the A students didn’t get over 60% on the test, they got dropped to a “B” anyway (”C” for below 50%). Hardly anyone got an A in that course (Once in a 2 year occurrence). BTW, the average score was a 27%.
Dr. Myron at SDSU? He was my advisor - he took pride in washing engineers out.
Teachers like that are worse than useless. The tests were so convoluted and difficult that no one really had a chance of answering any single problem. You "shot-gunned" the 4 question test and hoped your partial credit would pass you.
All you would up doing was vomiting up formulae and derivations in the hope of guessing you were on the right path. Meanwhile, a student who happened to bypass this teacher actually LEARNED the topic of the course, passed the test and understood the what/why and when's of the various principles.
“I have heard of courses where the professor “Skewed to the Left”- This is where more students failed than got A’s, and more D’s than B’s.”
I was in one of those. To add insult to injury, the professor could not speak English, had illegible writing, and did not use a textbook.
“Discrete Mathematical Structures”. They used it to weed out first year graduate students. We called the professor “Hitler”, though he was Taiwanese. He clicked his heals and saluted at each QED.
“I have heard of courses where the professor “Skewed to the Left”- This is where more students failed than got A’s, and more D’s than B’s.”
Been there, experienced that.
It sucked.