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Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors? by s_baby on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:09PM (#9448089)
What's so great about this strategy? When a teacher does this to me I assume he/she is more interested in doing his research instead of leading a class.
Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors? by Fomite on Monday April 27, 2015 @04:02PM (#9448735)
I have actually mostly gotten this strategy from very dedicated teachers. It's meant to address a strategy clever and grade-seeking students work out very quickly: without something like this, constantly asking for regrades has zero cost, and occasionally benefit to you.

This moves regrade requests more toward "No, I checked over my exam again and I'm sure this is a mistake..." rather than "Maybe I'll pick up another point or two..."

Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors? by codefisher on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:24PM (#9448560)
This was what we taught to say when I was a tutor for a university. The point was the student could not come and just point out that something was wrong with the marking and they deserve more points. If they thought the grade was not fair it could be remarked, but the whole thing would be remarked and a totally new grade assigned. You might come out better or worse for it.