I've passed every piece, I've studied regularly, doing the same thing that let me pass 1 and 2 easily: I typically do more study and work outside of class, asking for help where needed. My biggest piece of learning is normally response from graded work, and the answers to them for comparison.
Having done all the assigned work, I can understand less than half the problems on this exam. Although we have discussed most things on the test(not even everything!), we have not had ANY graded work on it whatsoever.
Seriously, having minimal graded work in a math class is a terrible, terrible idea.
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But a 10 week course that has only about a dozen graded pieces, all short except for exams, and some of which the teacher does not even correct the problems but just looks for "effort" strikes me as lazy and ineffective.
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The calc 3 class that I'm currently taking has 7 quizzes worth 65% of your grade and a final exam worth 35%. I understand how you feel, it doesn't leave much room for error on my part.
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special_sauce posted... From: OctilIery | #004 only about a dozen graded pieces lol. that's would be the highest number of graded assignments I've EVER received in a math course, even semester-long ones
I'm not trying to say that you're a wimp, I'm just whining. Math teachers suck.
Yeah, my last math teacher had at least twice that. A graded assignment due everyday, a required notebook of assignments from the book(not corrected but checked twice a term) and three exams plus a final, as well as systems to drop the lowest scores and help ease things out.
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I remember my Calc 2 professor, he was the worst. Besides having the appearance and demeanor of a homeless, alcoholic Colonel Sanders, his explanations were total horse****. It was always some lengthy step-by-step process for integrating, which made perfect sense except the very first step which he always explained as "Well I've seen a lot of functions like this so I can tell you that the whatever is this, and then we proceed from there." But he never ****ing explained how you figured out that first step aside from just knowing what the answer should be.
Needless to say, I was not confident enough in my Calc 2 grounding to continue on to Calc 3.