Exam's and dumbing down classes

Finished Phsyics exam. I would have made it harder.

Published on April 29, 2004 By bjwbell In Misc

I took the physics exam this morning I think he made it too easy. I would have had some stuff on angular momentum.

I was talking to my linear algebra teacher and he was saying that he wasn't going to be able to cover all the stuff he wanted cause there was a group of 8 or so students that weren't keeping up. I think he should plunge ahead. I mean it's the students responseablity to study and do the homework so they keep up with the class. And the other students want to learn new material. And we need to know it because linear algebra is used everywhere. As an example all the graphics programming I do uses linear algebra heavily. But I had to learn some of it on my own because he hasn't been able to get to it in the class.

I've slowly been coming to the conclusion that I would be a hard teacher. Considering that I would make all of the tests that I've taken harder.

Comments

Darius Farrar

on Apr 29, 2004

You need to go to a bigger school, wherever you are. The bigger the school, the more tiers of classes. My school is relatively small, so we usually only have 2 tiers (though sometimes we have 3 tiers) of a given class. I'm sure as you get to larger schools the number of tiers will increase. This allows you to accelerate while some other classes might have to undergo negative acceleration. I know a kid at my school that drives over an hour both ways to get home, because the course offering at his hometown's school were not wide enough.

bjwbell

on Apr 29, 2004

Yeah. I should be at a different school next fall. Hopefully the classes will be harder.

bjwbell

on Apr 29, 2004

But the thing is I really like the teachers at the school I'm at so I kind of hate to leave them after I've gotten to know them

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