Of course, sometimes when you write what seems like an interesting problem, it turns out to be difficult enough for the students that most of them barely attempt it, so the grading turns out to be easy. (Disappointing, because you’re thinking “why couldn’t they get this?!#$%”, but easy.)
Or sometimes you could be like my calc 1 ta. Just make the problems as hard as possible and use the excuse “I wanted to see if you guys could do it.” when everyone but the two chinese kids who had already taken calc 3 go it wrong.
Yeah Calc 2 problems on a Calc 1 exam are very interesting, quite the curve ball. you never see it coming.
Of course, sometimes when you write what seems like an interesting problem, it turns out to be difficult enough for the students that most of them barely attempt it, so the grading turns out to be easy. (Disappointing, because you’re thinking “why couldn’t they get this?!#$%”, but easy.)
Don’t you just love it when you get 20 different wrong answers from a class of 25 students?
I couldn’t have expressed it any better! Many times I wrote the “perfect” exam problem only to find it was absolutely impossible to grade. ;)
Ha, I’ve definitely had that question on some of my exams and you can always tell that the professor is disappointed.
Or sometimes you could be like my calc 1 ta. Just make the problems as hard as possible and use the excuse “I wanted to see if you guys could do it.” when everyone but the two chinese kids who had already taken calc 3 go it wrong.
Yeah Calc 2 problems on a Calc 1 exam are very interesting, quite the curve ball. you never see it coming.
Amen!