Work-sensitive enough that I decided to delete it. Sorry.
Posted by Observer at September 29, 2003 04:22 PMComments on entries can only be made in pop-up windows while those entries are still on the main index page. Sorry for the inconvenience this causes, but this blocks about 99.99% of the spam the blog receives.
So the "drunk chicken" score on a 32 question exam is 8 correct. I have a student who only got three right. I need to get out my copy of the binomial theorem to get those odds. I do know the odds of getting all 32 wrong by choosing randomly are about 10,000 to 1.
I think if I've calculated it right, the odds of randomly getting only 3 are roughly 54 to 1, so that's not out of the ballpark or anything.
Posted by: Observer on September 29, 2003 05:05 PMWell, when I went to college the first time, all exams were take home. No multiple choice there.
But I'm currently a student at an "Ivy League" and I've had to buy # 2 pencils. I'm not impressed. One would think that for $15,000/term tuition, they could track down some grad students to grade exams.
Posted by: Shamhat on September 29, 2003 05:42 PMBeing a student, it's great to hear the Prof side of things. =D
Posted by: Ledward on September 29, 2003 08:07 PMlol Ledward. You should live with one, I get to hear much more than he's willing to write here! ;)
Posted by: Felicity on September 29, 2003 09:20 PMMy Last Ever Exam as an undergrad was at UW back in '78. 50 T-F questions (yes, this was SOC 110; it was nothing but hours filler to bring my total credits up to that minimum number). The structure of the course was 5 exams, drop low score. And since I was taking the course pass-fail and I'd passed the first 4 exams, I skipped the rest of the class except to show up with 4 other guys like me in the class and take that last test. Most of us tried to mark them all wrong.
(Parenthetical comment: do you know how difficult it is to intentionally mark a wrong answer after 16 years of taking tests? Conditioning is a strange thing.)
One of the other guys brought a 6-pack, and we cracked them all open and drank our Lowenbrau (arguably the best you could get back in 1978) as we took this test. He also waved a TA over (this was in Kane 110, which seats many hundreds, and was quite full) and had her carry the last beer down to the prof. We watched her every step of the way, and watched the prof's reaction as she handed it to him (he peered suspiciously up into the lecture hall).
I never bothered to go get that last test.
Posted by: Dr. Satan on September 30, 2003 10:15 AMHa! I never thought of trying to get the lowest score possible.
Posted by: Humbaba on September 30, 2003 05:27 PMYou are a pretty comical guy. :) I knew this guy once in college who tried to spell out words with the bubbles. He was a twit anyways.
Posted by: Suzanne on October 1, 2003 11:23 AM