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RE: Students he didn't like

Bias and favourtism is the same thing - you favour something before hearing it or you dislike something because maybe you don't like the owner of the company or you believe you hate metal tweeters so you are convinced you will hate the speaker as soon as you see it has a metal tweeter.

As for the professor - it is the test and the essays submitted which will indicate "who the smart students are."

The student who doesn't ass-kiss - is quiet and does the work is evaluated on his/her merit alone. The sexy blond who has a gift of gab may flirt her way to a higher mark if the professor is the type to succumb to such things. I have seen it a few times. I was given a B in an acting course where we were told that the marks would be primarily based on effort, not ability - it was an elective so I took the course.

A pretty female student received an A and she missed 30% of the classes. So if the effort is the primary grading scheme then missing 30% of the course should count against her.

I had half a dozen back and forth e-mails with the professor citing the issue and he changed my grade to an A. She was a better acting student than me but the course was based on effort notability - and he didn't offer the University grading scheme of A+, A, A-, B+, B, B- - as this was an elective course where the grade matters for overall GPA. If he had given me an A- or B+ I probably would not have bothered.

In another course in Geology, I handed a project in with the same answers as a pretty girl - I got a B- she got an A. Exact same answers. Not much I could do about it because that professor had Tenure and had I known I would have avoided that professor (a 6000-year-old Earther nut).

The codes were for assignments so if you got a lousy grade on an essay you could still go and get some help from the professor.

And he was quite generous to the folks who asked for help - in my case I was getting 100% and an A+ on every assignment and exam - I tanked the essay. Philosophy is a completely different style of writing from other fields. He allowed me to take another exam instead of the essay on the promise that I take a writing course. I took the exam - got an A+ and signed up for a writing course.






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