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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by dmurray on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:52AM (#25044238)
10 to 30% pass rate? And that was very high compared to other departments?

Do you mind sharing roughly where this was (country and quality of university)? I thought we were in an era of grade inflation where everyone gets an A.

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Re:Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam mo... by gravypod on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:44AM (#25045795)
This was course a 300-level test course compared to a 300-level test course from these other departments. The hope is that when they become "real" courses the pass rate is higher. I think this counts people who are re-taking the course or who dropped it as failing. We had ~50% of our class drop within the first month.

Part of it was related to their expectations of the course: "you mean I have to write code and the class is based off of that and not memorizing test answers? I'm out"

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