I am frustrated beyond belief.
He's changed the subjects on today's ~quiz~ ....so I've wasted time on things that are not even on it....
and not only that, but there are only 10 multiple choice questions - and it is still worth 20%
and when I complained he started lecturing re: worrying about marks ....the study of English is not about memorizing facts, but rather about understanding and being able to think critically, make connections, etc.... uh yeah.... that would be my point.....
multiple choice tests test facts. Period.
"In the study of English there is no right or wrong."
GRRR!
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Hope you do well!
Along with a wine cooler.
I once took an 18th Century English Lit course. When the professor asked for our general impressions of "Moll Flanders", the class was eerily silent. He then asked who had actually read the book and I was the only one who raised my hand. He asked what I got out of the novel & I gave an honest & thoughtful response. The professor's reply? "You're wrong!" WTF? He asked what I got out of the book & I answered honestly - there is no right & wrong in literary analysis!
Along the same lines, I don't understand how your professor could give a multiple choice quiz. Spelling or grammar, sure. But graduate level English Lit? There is no black & white, only myriad shades of gray.
Best of luck on your quiz & keep on venting if it helps.
but to have 2 quizzes - each worth 20% of your final mark!!!! - and only 10 questions!!!
that's just CRAP! :(
and spraying coffee into laptop keyboard
thanks for the laugh.... I needed that
well, 9:30 anyway .... I am hoping to let them out early .... wish my students were more inclined to run when I let them go early .... they never do!
should have bought some!
can't even leave when I'm done my stOOpid test at the end of class .... prof wants me to go up to his office with him re: my letters of reference
but this is the last course I will ever have with him.
Wait til ya get home for the wine cooler, it's to far to drive!!
Here's a hug instead!
don't need coolers
need those letters of reference first though
hate multiple choice quizzes
While sneaky and devious, I thought it was absolutely hilarious, and said friend said it caused him to turn what was quite likely a 'C' paper into an 'A'. It's a dirty trick that you can never pull on the same group twice, but I loved it!
I think I got 7/10 ...which will mean 14/20 :( already down to a 94% ....and he always gives me 90% or thereabouts for papers/final exam .... going to drop my average :(
they still made you think it was not just facts, that was high school stuff,
here is an example of a multiple choice question, and realize we were not taught the answer in class we had to think out the answer on our own,
here is the question:
if you were throwing a party and you were having these people, which one of the group would decide against inviting to the party.
sigmund freud
karl Jung
alfred adler
Carl Rogers
see what I mean
now you have to figure out which one does not fit,
there are always two possible answers in a multiple choice but one is more correct that the other,
the one that is possible is not invite carl rogers because all these others guys came right after freud, and were either students of freud or Karl Jung, his student.
but the right answer was freud, he view of psychology was deterministic and very different from all the rest.
they did not teach us that per se in class, you had to figure that out on your own,
I preferred short answer and essay questions, I did much better on them because you had a chance to defend your position, and if your argument was good even though not what the professor was looking for, you still got points.
In English, it's very rare for us to have ANY multiple choice questions.... certainly not 10 questions that are worth 20% of the final mark.... (and another test with the same deal!!!! ) ... the essay is only worth 30%
Sorry you had such a tough day.
The reasoning goes like this: I rarely knew what I was supposed to know about what we were studying in High School, nor did I have much of an idea of what was going on in my classes generally; however, I did manage to do fairly well on my SAT's. Since I'm sure that we had to write an essay for one or the other of a battery of tests we took around that time that had to do with college admissions, it must have been on the SAT's. It had to be there, because I "knew" I was a good writer and therfore, the essay that I wrote must have been on the SAT's; because it explained how I was able to do as well as I did.
It's obvious from my writng today that thinking of myself as a good writer back then, was more then likely an attempt to shelter my self from the necessity of having to make a critical assessment of who I was and what I was good at in the real and harsh world of grown-ups.