BOMBED!

…is how to describe the performance of the students on exam number two. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I wrote a question to my travel insurance guy and told him the students had bombed the second exam and he replied, “as long as that means they didn’t do very well…” I hadn’t thought of the double meaning.

Again, for the nerds:

One student, M, has done his best to pull the curve down. M scored a 5 on the first exam--that's out of 100. He got the same score on a quiz the day after the exam--that's out of 6. Thing is, we take quizes in class where it's very easy to cheat but we take exams out in the library with everyone spaced out. Well, this time around ol' M did as well as the best student in the course on the multiple-choice portion of the exam--in fact, he missed the very same questions that student missed. This left him with a 24 despite not doing any of the rest of the exam. Not an impressive score, but that he would score above anyone else at all I found unacceptable. Our suspicions raised, we gave M the exact same multiple choice portion to do on the very next day. He improved by 20% to 6.

I got it out for M because the kid is kind of a pretty boy but mainly, if I understand correctly, his uncle is the chancellor. He hasn't even started university yet. It's highly inappropriate for the kid to be in this course, but he was forced on us by the clumsy power-weilding of Darth Chancellor.