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Marcus Roper
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Spring 2025 - Oml this class. Never have I ever expected that I would get above the median score for BOTH the midterm and the final (57% vs 67% and 63% vs 68% respectively) to receive a C+ in the class, below the median grade of a B-. I truly don’t understand it, instead of curving like a normal professor he decides to invent a grading scheme where he decides your score based on mastery of certain questions on the final, he didn’t even tell us about this grading scheme until AFTER the final. Grading for mastery would be fine, only if the questions were normal and the grading made sense. For example, for a question on the final we were given a differential equation that we were expected to solve then write the answer in the form y(x)=… I use the proper technique to integrate this problem, I integrate everything correctly, but because I didn’t isolate the y, I only earned 6.5/10 points, which according to him doesn’t show mastery, despite doing the integration correctly. Because I did was not perform the ALGEBRA of isolating the y correctly, this question did not count towards my mastery when calculating my final grade. It’s actually ridiculous. Pls don’t take this class if u care about your gpa, I’ve taken hard classes where the median grades are also a B- (ochem) and I’ve gotten an A in both Math 32A and 33A, I know this isn’t how a class should be. So much work and effort for nothing. Please choose a different professor to take Math 33B with.
Spring 2025 - Oml this class. Never have I ever expected that I would get above the median score for BOTH the midterm and the final (57% vs 67% and 63% vs 68% respectively) to receive a C+ in the class, below the median grade of a B-. I truly don’t understand it, instead of curving like a normal professor he decides to invent a grading scheme where he decides your score based on mastery of certain questions on the final, he didn’t even tell us about this grading scheme until AFTER the final. Grading for mastery would be fine, only if the questions were normal and the grading made sense. For example, for a question on the final we were given a differential equation that we were expected to solve then write the answer in the form y(x)=… I use the proper technique to integrate this problem, I integrate everything correctly, but because I didn’t isolate the y, I only earned 6.5/10 points, which according to him doesn’t show mastery, despite doing the integration correctly. Because I did was not perform the ALGEBRA of isolating the y correctly, this question did not count towards my mastery when calculating my final grade. It’s actually ridiculous. Pls don’t take this class if u care about your gpa, I’ve taken hard classes where the median grades are also a B- (ochem) and I’ve gotten an A in both Math 32A and 33A, I know this isn’t how a class should be. So much work and effort for nothing. Please choose a different professor to take Math 33B with.
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