I keep getting burned in my classes for getting good grades. Here are three examples from three classes.
Articulation Disorders: This past Monday we took a “quiz.” A 100 point “quiz.” One question that was worth 25 points was to read information about a child and decide if his language was normal, delayed, or disordered. I picked disordered. I was one of only four people who picked that…and we were right! The teacher decided to let the class redo the section since almost everyone missed it. But I got it right. I don’t know if I ended up missing any points on it anyway, but if not, I don’t get a chance to better my grade.
Language Disorders: We got back our Language Sample Analysis yesterday. I got an A-. The teacher said if you aren’t happy with your grade, you can redo it to improve your grade. Not sure how my grade can be improved.
Hearing Science: Now, I won’t go into details about how confusing this class was. If you want more details let me know. The only thing about that would be that I think that telling you about it wouldn’t do the story justice, because you would probably understand what happened, and class was VERY confusing.
But anyway, we took a midterm last week (it’s a one night a week class). I was pretty nervous about how I did. I originally got an 88%. In class last night we went through the test each question, and if we thought it was a bad question or poorly worded. After giving credit back for three questions, two of which I had gotten right, the teacher told us that even if we got it right we could get more credit for it. So, to make a very long confusing story short, I think my grade on the test went up to a 104%.
Ah, the joys of public education.