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[brin_bellway]

(previously on)

Submitted my final assignment of the semester today, about eight weeks after I started.

Three more courses/semesters to go. Next stop: macroeconomics.

Comments

[brin_bellway]

>>I usually have exams for about 80% of my subjects, but probably no more than 40% of my total grades come from exam scores.<<

40% isn't unheard of in my own experience, but it's definitely on the low side. I went and checked the exam weightings on my three remaining courses and they're [50, 55, 50]; some of my previous courses had 70 or even 80% of one's total grade come from exams.

It makes sense that a distance university would be heavy on exams, since exams are when they're most confident that it's actually *you* doing the work. They don't see you in class every week, they don't see whether or not you looked guilty when you clicked the checkbox swearing you didn't plagiarise this assignment. But they looked at a scan of my passport before agreeing to put my picture on my student ID card, and when I go to the community college a professional invigilator checks that student ID and keeps an eye on me as I do my work, and I suppose there's only so much you can cheat if 80% of your work is done under those conditions.

[contrarianarchon]

Fair; that is an average taking into account many no-exam subjects, and I'd have many classes within the 50-60% range.

... most of my assignments are still submitted online and the cheating rate in some of my tests had to be seen to be believed! There were people just out-loud discussing the questions!

(To be fair that teacher did have a crackdown after that but I feel like he should have just failed a bunch of those people there and then; you shouldn't need due warning to start actually following the rules)