School starts on Monday. So I decided today would be a good day to go read all the syllabi my teachers have been emailing me about, five times a day, for the past month. (For you Non-Math majors that comes out to about 150 emails I've received regarding important class information. For you English majors, that was an hyperbole.)
Most of this information has been boring, repetitive and useless. Very little of it was confusing. Until I came to this:
"The two values will be averaged. The integer part of the average will determine the letter grade if the fractional part is less than or equal to .5. If the fractional part is above .5, the value will be rounded toward the paper grade."
I read it once. Read it again. And finally on the third time I realized it was saying that if you get higher than 89.5 it's an A and so on. By about the sixth time I realized what it was really saying. Your grade has the potential to go up if you average higher than x9.5 -- but only if you write a better paper than you take a math test. Considering we're all math majors, this doesn't look so good for us...
Only in a math class could understanding the grading system be so confusing.
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