Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressures for Easier Grading

Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Jensson on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:24PM (#39377013)

The courses that the motivated and smart grad students take are typically not available to undergrad students. I took a lot of grad courses in undergrad, and then as a grad students I never studied with any undergrads since I had already taken those courses.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Marsymars on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:41PM (#39377163)

Though that wouldn't apply for motivated and smart grad students that are doing grad studies in a different discipline than their undergrad.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Jensson on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:02PM (#39377331)

But basically all of the undergrad students taking grad courses are motivated and smart.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by sudosysgen on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:45PM (#39378519)

Depends on the university. At mine in CS you could take literally any grad course you wanted so long as the professor didn't mind (and they had no reason to mind), even if you didn't have any of the prerequisites. I learnt a lot that way.

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