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I am just halfway through my studies, and 2 months pregnant for the first time, so your experience is highly apperciated! I've already had some troubles in college, so I try to prepare myself to deal with the upcoming challenges. This info helped a lot.
 
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My Uni grand is puzzled by his test scores in one subject (he's taking Engineering) - 92% followed by 25% followed by 98%.
 
KayTheCurler said:
My Uni grand is puzzled by his test scores in one subject (he's taking Engineering) - 92% followed by 25% followed by 98%.
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Ouch. My son's had some variation (Computer Science but at Ottawa they are in with Engineering and take some of the same courses as Electrical and Computer Engineering) but not that wide. I think there was one test where the whole class was low and the prof belled it rather than giving them all crap marks. He does say that the first year courses seem designed to weed out the ones who can't handle either the content or workload so he's doing well but a lot of his classmates are barely hanging on.
 
KayTheCurler said:
My Uni grand is puzzled by his test scores in one subject (he's taking Engineering) - 92% followed by 25% followed by 98%.
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Has he reviewed the test? I had a situation where there were multiple versions and the prof put my through the wrong version. That was for a scantron multiple choice test.

I am not a fan of that prof. It was weird, I preferred to sit in a different location for exam writing than where I usually sat and this seemed to bother him or something. I was on the end of a row and he started collecting with the person beside me, did the entire class and took mine last, didn't surprise me it ended up in the wrong pile. Getting the marked fixed as a PITA his office hours were when I had a lab scheduled and he ignored multiple emails. I was about to escalate it when I finally got a response - my test had been regraded, there was no need for me to see him at a time outside his usual office hours as my result was much higher than what was initially posted.
 
ChemGal said:
Has he reviewed the test? I had a situation where there were multiple versions and the prof put my through the wrong version. That was for a scantron multiple choice test.
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Little M had a midterm where he questioned the marking and went to see the prof, who gave him back most of the marks and grumbled about the TA who did the marking, which leads me to suspect Little M was not the only one who appealed.
 
Mendalla said:
Little M had a midterm where he questioned the marking and went to see the prof, who gave him back most of the marks and grumbled about the TA who did the marking, which leads me to suspect Little M was not the only one who appealed.
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I've been a TA who has had to remark a section of an exam because it was determined another TA did a crappy job.
For the labs I marked on a regular basis, I constantly told my students to double check my addition, I usually caught my own mistake before handing back but with half marks it wasn't unusual for me to accidentally subtrack 1.5 instead of just .5 from the total in my head (I usually subtracted when grading instead of adding unless the report was getting a very low mark).

Students should check their marks over! I found it was pretty common to get a few things added on and I wasn't one who went in arguing for every mark possible, I was usually just looking to see where I went wrong.
 
So how does Little M get to celebrate his birthday? With a midterm in discrete math (no, I'm still not clear on what it is, either, only that it's the kind of math that kept me in humanities). Yay! o_O

First time he's celebrated his birthday without us around, but we've told him to take some friends out and send us the bill. He's turning nineteen, so I'll be disappointed if there's no beer on it;). We'll see him again in a month when he moves out of residence and we go up to help with the move. Where he moves to is still up in the air. Depends on whether his summer job is here or in Ottawa.
 
I've alluded to this elsewhere, but we just spent a week with Little M in Ottawa, mostly to get him moved from campus to a summer sublet. Has to move again (back to campus, but an apartment style residence that he's sharing with two friends he made in first year) in September. No job yet but he's decided to stay there and take some courses this summer so he can reduce his load for second year. If he doesn't end up working, that's cool. Next summer is first co-op semester so he'll be working for sure.
 
aaah, student union.

I was part of FedSoc at Univ of Waterloo. (Treasurer for a bit. Oh, we had fun)
 
BetteTheRed said:
Daughter all registered and timetabled for 3rd semester of Civil Engineering at the local community college.
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Yeah, Little M has everything in place for 2nd year as well. Just need move him into his new place, which happens on the long weekend. He got interested in cooking while living off-campus this summer and has an apartment style residence with a kitchen (shared with two buddies) for the new school year.
 
Ah, yes, the convenience of living in your Mom's house while you go to school. She has a pretty separate space downstairs, so she has independence/privacy (E left home at 17 for the first time, so she's already done the independence thing), very cheap rent, stability.
 
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