Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 days ago
My first introduction to this bullshit was calculus. Teacher bragged about only passing halve his students. Like my man… that ain’t the brag you think it’s is 1, 2 this is a fucking prereq for the vast vast majority of us!
State Universities lovee failing a student in an entry- level course, because the state will subsidize tuition twice for a given class per student.
They don’t like doing it a second time because the student has to pay full tuition, and when classes triple in price they’re more likely to drop.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Yeah, when a prof or teacher says “my course is so hard, only a few people pass” then I immediately translate that to “I am a shit teacher”.
So long as you do the work and aren’t a lazy ass student, you should have a decent pass.
AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 6 days ago
Only exception I have seen was when the professor was kind of a troll. He was a good teacher. This was in a pretty entry level physics class at a tech school, so we basically got a high school level physics as a pre-req for our degree in whatever 2 year program we were in.
He spent the week leading up to the first big test talking about how hard it was, how people needed to take it seriously, etc.
He handed out the grades after and everyone was visibly upset, nobody had a passing grade. Then he explained, after letting us freak out for a minute, that the score at the top was out of 50, not 100 and I think everyone passed
After that the class pretty fun.